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Odamex has actually had a truecolor renderer for years, and it is faster than QZDoom's (imo).

The effects would be neat, but are not immediately needed and are definitely not a focus to any of the (very few) current developers.

Ralphis and company have announced the time frames for seasons 7, 8, and 9 of the World Doom League (WDL).

The WDL is the biggest Doom CTF tournament in the world and is always looking for new players. If you are interested in joining simply hit up #wdl on irc.quakenet.org and start playing with the league members. Whether new or Doom veterans, anyone is welcome to come and sign up. The latest version of the WDL wad is always posted in the IRC channel's topic.

See the season calendar here
Official Web Site
Several prior season games can be found on DevestatioN's Youtube page
World Doom League Radio with the Announcement
Sign-ups are open!

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Hi everyone!

I made a script for mIRC that parses odamex:// and allows you to click it to connect to odamex servers from mIRC. It is pretty neat and I wanted to share it all with you!

To use it, open mIRC and at the top hit the "Scripts Editor" button and go to "Remote." From there start a new line and copy/paste the script in. Afterword simply doubleclick an odamex:// link and it will ask for a path to odamex.exe. Tell mIRC your path and it will connect to the server for you.

Enjoy!

on ^*:hotlink:$(odamex://*):*: { }

on *:hotlink:*:*: {
  if ($pos($1, odamex://, 1) == 1) {
    if ($isfile(%swi.odal.strPath)) {
      run $chr(32) $+ %swi.odal.strPath $+ $chr(32) +connect $remove($1, odamex://))
    }
    else {
      set %swi.odal.strPath $$input(Path to Odamex executable:, eo, odamex Link, %swi.odal.strPath)
    }
  }
}


The script is a modification of the one created by swiNg for Quakeworld. You can find his script and more information about it here: http://www.quakeworld.nu/blog/323/swings-qw-launcher-for-mirc

I recommend you join an Odamex IRC channel to get with players. Most of the people that play Odamex are college students and people with jobs that play organized games. #dmstuff on irc.quakenet.org is a great place to find Odamex players that lurk often.

Neat but the weapon sprites look off

Have you looked at the NJ Co-op server? You can vote to many different pwads to play through

The Odamex project is looking for a programmer to help maintain the Odamex source code. Odamex is a Client/Server modification of ZDoom 1.22 with some ZDoom 1.23 code imported in. The project is written in C++ for the client and server and uses SDL 2 and SDL_Mixer 2 as runtime libraries. The project is entirely GPL or GPL compatible as well.

Odamex has several advanced features, including on-the-fly wad changing, the ability to trigger between vanilla Doom and ZDoom physics and nuances, map voting, an optional 32bpp renderer, network packet-based multiplayer demos, and backwards reconciliation netcode optimizations for high latency players.

However, the last release of Odamex was on March 29, 2014. There have been many code updates following the release but no new versions due to some plans not being completed. There are currently no “horrible” bugs and repeat offender crashes but the project definitely needs optimizations and maintenance.

If you are interested in helping Odamex, please respond here and/or join #odamex on irc.oftc.net

Projects to consider:
* Implementing Survival Co-op
* Improving BOOM support
* Improving the ACS interpretor
* Implementing UDMF map format
* Improving Heretic and Hexen support
* Heck just pick something and go for it!