Doom has now been ported to 8-bit Atari

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8-bit Atari is the latest platform that can claim it is capable of playing Doom thanks to a new, mind-blowing port.

Written in assembly, the "port" of Doom includes cut-down versions of the shareware Doom levels, excluding the secret level. Various enemies like sergeants, demons, imps, and cacodemons are featured, with AI code derived from the original Doom source code.

Atari port by Krzysztof Swiecicki - Swiety/ZELAX rewriten to asm , optimized and fixed. Double horizontal view, viewfinder.
Original Doom for the VIC-20 ported by Steve Mccrea.
This is a "port" of iD software's Doom.
Released at Lost Party 2023.

Features:
  • cut down versions of shareware Doom's levels, minus the secret level
  • sergeants, demons, imps and cacodemons, with AI code cut down from the Doom source
  • fist, chainsaw, pistol, shotgun, chaingun
  • health, ammo, keys, weapons, security and combat armor
  • corpses
  • exploding barrels
  • secrets
  • 11 music tracks, converted from the original Doom midi files
  • 20 sound effects, converted from the original Doom PC speaker sounds
  • cheat codes
  • panning and zooming map
  • intermission and victory screens
  • arbitrarily angled textured walls



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Wow, that's incredible.

You mean my favourite Atari XL game could have looked like that instead of like this, had the dev team just spent 35 more years on optimization?

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Damn rushed releases, smh. I blame the publishers :ha:

(No but seriously now, that's really impressive.)
 

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@VinsCool could have made a far better soundtrack :3
I doubt it, but coincidentally, I was actually credited for the in-game BGM of this Tetris Attack clone, which was also released during the Lost Party 2023 :D

 

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8-bit Atari is the latest platform that can claim it is capable of playing Doom thanks to a new, mind-blowing port.

Written in assembly, the "port" of Doom includes cut-down versions of the shareware Doom levels, excluding the secret level. Various enemies like sergeants, demons, imps, and cacodemons are featured, with AI code derived from the original Doom source code.





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if Doom runs on a pregnancy test, definitively will run everywhere!
 
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8-bit Atari is the latest platform that can claim it is capable of playing Doom thanks to a new, mind-blowing port.

Written in assembly, the "port" of Doom includes cut-down versions of the shareware Doom levels, excluding the secret level. Various enemies like sergeants, demons, imps, and cacodemons are featured, with AI code derived from the original Doom source code.





:arrow: Download (in video description)

I wonder if the Atari can run anything else than E.T. or DOOM for that matter. :unsure:

Still, a very impressive port. :D

if Doom runs on a pregnancy test, definitively will run everywhere!
Is that why you was born a cacodemon?
 
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