Doom Still Kicks Ass

I was wandering around FilePlanet the other day when I stumbled upon Doomsday, a frontend for the jDoom Win32 port of Doom. This is the port I've been looking for. Unlike ZDoom and numerous others, the entire engine is re-rendered in full 3D in OpenGL, so mouselooking on the y-axis is no more warped than looking around on the x-plane. It also incorporates all manner of real-time lighting effects and can enhance any Doom .wad with 3D model packs. And the packaged launcher, Kickstart, is at least as good as the old Doom95. Absolutely the only way to play Ultimate Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom on a Win32 platform.

The entire classic Doom package can be had for ten bucks at any Walmart, and any of you kids who don't know what all the hoohah is about should pick it up. With a nice port like jDoom, the entire series is still a huge amount of fun and stands up to any shooter released in the last ten years.

Deer Park Alpha 1 was released tonight. This is the first developer preview for Firefox 1.1, and I don't recommend it for anyone but Firefox hackers and people who don't mind using a browser that doesn't actually work most of the time.