

Playing a bit of Doom is kind of fun but it may be more interesting for those who played the original game in the MS-DOS area than it is for those who grew up with Fortnite as the commonly played game. Modern titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive have much better graphics but they aren't really all that different. That being said, it's held up quite well over the years. You can't really expect all that much in terms of fancy modern graphics. See the vavoom manual page for the rest if you are particularly interested. Vavoom supports -doom, -doom2, -tnt, -plutonia and some more. Starting different games based on the original Doom engine is done by command-line arguments. Vavoom allows you to configure a window resolution manually which means it can scale up and be used on 4K monitors just fine.
#Original doom engine full version#
Grab the file Doom all wads 1 2 plutonia 2 if you do not have the full version WAD files. Both files from the shareware-version and the full versions can be used. The original game files for Doom, Doom II, TNT and Plutonia (doom.wad doom2.wad plutonia.wad tnt.wad) needs to be placed in one of those folders. wad files in /usr/share/vavoom, /usr/share/games/doom/, /usr/share/doom/ as well as $HOME/.vavoom/. It's available for Windows and Linux and it's present as package called vavoom in most distributions. Vavoom, last updated in 2010, may be a good choice if you are looking to play the original Doom. However, quite a few of the projects have died off and become somewhat outdated. This means that there's quite a few choices if you want to play Doom on a modern Linux desktop. There are many projects who have taken the source-code id Software released and improved upon it.
