Reply To: Doom Versions and Ports
I can’t quite remember the story but they ported DOOM to windows 95 (DOOM95) as a way to showcase direct X and get gamers taking windows 95 seriously as a gaming platform. This is actually the version/launcher I played back in the day. It enabled things like level selection and higher resolutions (though this was somewhat broken) but used the same WADs as the DOS version so I’m not sure you could call it a port. Overall I don’t really think it was a big improvement or anything and I think the DOS version is still the way people go if playing on an old system as things like gzdoom have rendered DOOM95 obsolete.
Not a port, but part of the DOOM universe is DOOM 64 on the Nintendo 64 which is actually just a different game entirely and a good one at that, only problem for me is I get quite motion sick when playing it.
And finally, there’s the PowerPoint port: https://youtu.be/YW0eJDLbZXY?si=sQgA76M4JZPkVPaW
