Some static limits have been raised/removed It runs under DosBox, but have some neat features like BEX patches (an extension from DeHacked patches). Boom ( ) : is the oldest of advanced source ports. This source port have some forks: Chocolate Strife and Chocolate Strife Chocolate Doom( ): you want try the old-school gameplay? With this source port the original bugs are still present, the static limits are still here, and it can play the old demos. Vavoom ( ) : Another advanced source port. 3DGE ( ): another advanced source port. That version is focused on network gameplay Watch out: the version 2.x can be run only with an OpenGL 3.x graphics card (like Radeon HD 5770). It supports all kind of 3D-Floors, dynamic lighting, and the features of ZdooM. GZDooM (, Thanks to Gaerzi): is the sister of ZdooM. Current stable version is 2.7.1, but you can play with more recent versions from here. jump, scripting (taken from Hexen ACS and extended it), and if IIRC some kind of 3d-floors. ZDooM ( ) : is one of the most advanced source ports out there. Here a list of source ports that you can find over the internet:
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No fear, my friend, since id Software released source code of id Tech 1 engine (Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife) you can play your favourite games with some bug fixes, and even with advanced features (jump, freelook, 3d floors and even scripting). It should be at least 16 bits with two bits specifying from which side the trigger should be activatable.So, you have bought Classic Doom and now you want to play it, and the original executable limited for you. This has become one of the most problematic limitations because we'd like to add a few more trigger types to ZDoom but can't because everything has been used. For Hexen style linedefs the trigger mask should be taken out of the flags and put into its own property. Since Strife is not a source port an additional standard chunk for Strife's conversation scripts might be a good idea.
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Although 8 is the limit for the current map format, ZDoom can use 32 bit internally and for many of Hexen's line specials such an extension would be extremely useful. Args in things and lines should be 32 bit, not 8. Any proper tool should scan for the chunk it wants to load, not just load them sequentially. In a chunk based format order of chunks shouldn't matter at all. Either a port or tool can handle the format and doesn't need them or it doesn't support it - which leaves 2 possibilities: Either the program checks the name of the following (THINGS) lump, in which case it would properly abort or it doesn't - and in that case nothing at all could help. However, I really don't see the need for the XM_ markers. Or am I just talking out of my ass here? =) Is it that the bit/byte position if this value in the file header is pre-determined, and expanding it to 4-bit would offset the following data in a way that an engine can't distinguish from a non-expanded linedef lump? But if that is the case, wouldn't it be possible to count "backwards", from the end of the header? Or would an expanded (4-bit) linedef lump demand other parts (blockmap or whatever) to be expanded too, hence making this undoable somehow? However, I wonder what would prevent anyone from allowing a 4-bit value, for example. Very nice explanation, this is exactly what I was after. ZDoom already does this, I believe, by using the Hexen map format. That is to say, a larger number of bytes would be needed to store the number. To increase the limit further, you would have to change the wad format to be able to store a number larger than 65535. To handle the "no sidedef" case, you check for 65535, which is what -1 looks like if you interpret it as an unsigned number. It is easy to double the largest sidedef number by interpreting the signed quantity as an unsigned quantity, therefore you get sidedefs numbered 0 to 65535. Sidedef numbers are stored in the linedefs lump in your wad file as signed 2-byte numbers, that means you can have sidedefs numbered -32768 to 32767, with -1 meaning "no sidedef" Yes, exactly, there is some limit in a table in the file structure. And I'm not much of a programmer (albeit not dumb either) so go easy on the code lingo. Why does everyone double the limit as opposed to making it infinite, or something absurd like 512k? I understand that there might be a limit in some table in the file structure or whatever, but I'd like to have it explained to me.
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