Doomsday Engine
Portable enhanced source port of Doom, Heretic and Hexen under the GPL, with a modern renderer and modding support.
Source port Human-led releasedFacts
- Original
- Doom, Heretic and Hexen (1993)
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Method
- Source port
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2011, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- none
- Team
- skyjake
- Started
- 2011-11
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux, macOS
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Doom, Heretic and Hexen you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by skyjake. Facts last checked 2026-10-14. Suggest a correction
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