Playing Classic Doom on Funtoo

A big upgrade to Funtoo's Doom-playing ability has been merged into `next`!

This page will document how to use it.

DoomRunner

DoomRunner is a launcher that makes it easy to set up profiles for combinations of the various source ports, IWADs/PWADs, and mods. It generates command line arguments for the source port, starts it, and offers a way to kill it if it misbehaves.

games-util/doomrunner

Source ports

games-engines/gzdoom
games-engines/odamex

Game data

Doom source ports can be played without commercial IWADs but using Freedoom.

https://freedoom.org
games-fps/freedoom-data

Multiplayer

Odamex is the preferred multiplayer engine.

With GZDoom

With Odamex

Operating a server

Optionally using Docker

Music

Note: To make the MIDI music work in various sourceports, it is necessary to set USE="midi timidity" for media-libs/sdl2-mixer. Then remember to run `eselect timidity set 1`.

8MBGSFX: An alternative set of soundfonts for `timidity`, freely available
- (need to make an autogen for it)

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