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A job like this will be a substantial amount of work, there are factors like (deathz0r already said some)
1) Gameplay mechanics
2) Crossplatform issues
3) Time (how long it will take)
4) Dehacked, boom features which rely on the current infrastructure of the doom engine to work properly.
5) The new design (also taking into account the above points)

I'm sure there are more, a rework like this requires a serious amount of thought as you probably know, to break it down, the following systems (and subsystems) need to be reimplemented.

Systems
1) Wad loading
2) Renderer
3) Automap
4) Menu system
5) Tick system
6) AI, Monsters
7) God knows what else.

Subsystems:
1) Video
2) Sound
3) Input
4) Network

Now you have the stuff that almost makes doom, but if something like this is going to be attempted, it will need to be extendable, because there is no point in doing something like this if its going to be just as limited.
Here are a few ideas I had:

1) Multithreading for all systems and subsystems, computers with SMP/Multiple CPU cores can take advantage of it
2) Module/plugin system, similiar to doomsday, without modules, it'd just be straight odamex with boom and whatnot, but then it could be used to add additional functionality like gameplay modes, bots, ingame launchers etc.
3) Whatever else is here

And jeez, if I could think of anything else, I would :P

There is currently no server launcher at the moment, everything has to be done by hand/shell script/batch file currently.

Hello.

Sorry that does not help I have the collector's edition so I have 4 games I know where the file is for the games but where do I go to tell the launcher where the wads are?

1) Open the launcher
2) Go to File->Settings
3) Click the Add button next to the wad dir, locate the Collectors Edition directory (usually under C:\program files\ directory somewhere)
4) Find the location of Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom IWAD files (filenames are doom2.wad, doom.wad), these may be located in subfolders
5) Repeat the process for all 3 game IWADS

Again what ports do I need to forward to be able to play online?

Thanks

You shouldn't need to forward any ports unless you want to host servers

I made an article for it on the wiki, it probably needs some work, but its a start.

http://odamex.net/wiki/Map_scripts

On a slightly different note, maybe we should ask Luigi Auriemma to peruse the source for anything that we might not have picked up.

I will never make hacks for odamex.

Well, if you have any ideas of exploits that could be
possible in the current source, you can always submit a
patch.

So why I came here to tell you that there is most likely hack for odamex.  If you think it will help I can send you the source for my hacks.  If you just give them to zdaemon let me know and I will just open source them if you want look.

We have no ties to those other ports, so no source is
distributed to them (they couldn't use it as they would
have to open up their code anyway, because of Odamex's
license)
I would be interested in seeing the source myself, but you
have my word that it wouldn't be distributed.

While I appreciate the contribution, this has to be something that will need to be written in C++ and use the wxWidgets framework.

You've given me an idea of the layout though, I might put an interface together and post it up here.

Slayer: That is just an sfx archive, not an actual installer.

Marcus: If you'd like to, you could have a look at the current installer package, anarkavre currently maintains it, but it hasn't been touched in a while, so I'm not sure if it still works or not.

I also use Innosetup myself btw.