Odamex

Odamex is a free and open source port for the classic first-person-shooter Doom. The goal of Odamex is to emulate the look and feel of the original Doom executables while offering a broader expanse of security features, personal configuration, gameplay options, and editing features. Odamex can run on a wide range of operating systems and hardware, so players should be able to play on almost any platform.

Features

Odamex and Standard Doom

Features that make Odamex closest to the original Doom:

Out-of-the-box settings for classic Doom gameplay
Doom2.exe gameplay-related nuances have been reimplemented as standard
Nuanced mouse code that replicates the precise feel of using the mouse in doom2.exe
Demo playback support for Doom LMP demos.
Functional Deathmatch and Cooperative game modes, single player is also supported.

Odamex and Enhanced Doom

New additions Odamex brings to the Doom battleground:

Client and Server environment with in-game joining
Incredibly smooth backwards reconciliation netcode
Theoretical support for up to 255 players
Widescreen support
Hi-resolution rendering modes, with support up to 1080p
A true-color renderer, allowing colors beyond that of Doom's palette (8-bit is default and 100% supported)
Frame rates above the original Doom engine's 35 frames per second. Default settings match modern monitors!
The ZDoom 1.22 core engine, as well as the ZDoom 1.23 beta33 ACS interpretor
The ability to toggle the ZDoom 1.22 physics engine, as well as the ability to toggle various ZDoom settings that have become standard over the years
A new HUD and scoreboard with info better suited for a multiplayer environment
A warm-up mode.
New Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag game modes
An announcer for Capture the Flag
Netdemos to record playing online
Automatic downloading and verification of WAD files from the server
Map cycling support
On-the-fly WAD loading:
- When combined with map cycling, you can create a map AND wad rotation server!
- Wads can be loaded in single player mode too, no need to restart the client.
RCON (Remote Console) Support
Cheating and exploitation redundancy, no longer do you have to put up with cheaters!
System Independence, meaning it can run on:
- Windows 95, 98, ME(?), NT(?), 2K, XP, Vista, 7, 8
- Linux (x86, ppc, amd64)
- MacOSX
- BSD
- Sun Solaris
- Microsoft XBox
- Nintendo Wii & Wii U
- Possibly more...if it can run SDL 1.2 or SDL2 it might run Odamex!

Game launcher includes most standard features found in other launchers, plus more:
- Sorting capabilities.
- Filtering capabilities (future addition)
- C++ oriented design with fully cross-platform capabilities, utilizing the wxWidgets API.

Odamex and map authoring

Whats in it for map authors?

Patch support includes (loaded from command line or DEHACKED lump)
- DEHACKED (DEH)
- Boom EXtensions (BEX)
BOOM map format support.
ZDoom map format (Doom in Hexen).
ACS up to ZDoom 1.23 Beta33.
ODAMEX supports multiple music and sound formats, for example:
- WAVE/RIFF
- AIFF
- VOC
- MOD XM S3M 669 IT MED and more (using included mikmod)
- MIDI (using timidity or native midi hardware)
- OggVorbis (requiring ogg/vorbis libraries on system)
- MP3 (requiring SMPEG library on system)
- Basically any music format that SDL_mixer supports!

Odamex and developers

Developers also benefit from Odamex:

Full source code available, based on the GNU GPLv2 license.
Source code compiles on multiple hardware/software combinations including native 64-bit
CMake is fully implemented for all Odamex projects
Project and workspace files for the IDE Code::Blocks, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 as well as the standard GNU Makefiles.
Compiles with GCC as well as Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0

Questions

Got a few questions? Take a look at the FAQ

Games

All of the following games are supported:

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