DOOM for OS/2

Version:

1.10

Release date:

Friday, 2 February, 2001

Home:

https://www.idsoftware.com

http://doom.com

Categories:

Applications: games

License:

Open source (generic)

Interface:

PMShell
Workplace Shell
VIO

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

id Software, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Jim Thomas, Craig Ballantyne, Dimitrios Michelinakis

OS/2 port of DOOM. DOOM is a popular 1993 science fiction horror-themed first-person shooter video game by id Software. The DOOM source code was released as open-source on 1997, graphic, sound and levels copyrighted by id Software. Port by more authors.

DOOM for OS/2 was never officially released and it is considered by software engineers a technological feat: Indeed, DOOM for OS/2 runs inside a Presentation Manager window and it is much more performant than the original DOS version!

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder. See below for download link(s).

Distributions include only OS/2 native game loader and the first level, shareware, original game levels required.

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

SciTech SNAP Graphics

Following links are to additional programs, not mandatory but useful:

OS/2 Gamer's Guide installation

Online documentation:

OS/2 Dos Games Settings List (in English)

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

DOOM for OS/2 v. 1.10 (MGL version, 2/2/2001)	Readme/What's new	-= DOOM for OS/2 - MGL version =- Optimized with MGL and DIVE. Compiled under emx/gcc with full optimizations. This actually runs better than the original dos version of the game :)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/games/action/doom/mgldoom.zip	local copy
DOOM for OS/2 v. 0.96 (source code included, 18/8/1998)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/games/action/doom/os2doom.zip	local copy
DOOM for OS/2 v. 2.19b (17/7/1997)
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/games/action/doom/dmos219s.zip	local copy