Doom for OS/2

published by IBM, developed by IBM / SoftPort, running on OS/2

This game has not passed the prototype stage.

type: shooter
genre: Horror, Science Fiction, First-person shooter
perspective: 1st person
player options: single player

other: Prototype
languages: eng

Description

id Software initially had no interest in porting DOOM to OS/2, due to many of the operating system's initial gaming barriers. But they gave the DOOM source code to IBM and invited them to do an OS/2 port. IBM decided not to finish their gaming development tools and never got network play running (due to the different way OS/2 did network) and decided not to officially publish the game due to this deficiency. They did however, 'leak' a networkless version of the game (or it was truly a well timed accident). While this was happening, the Windows95 beta with a copy of WinDoom complete with networking was being leaked by Microsoft.
This is the first game to use DIVE and DART. Unlike WinDoom, this version had no limits on screen resolution or color depth.
This package will run any Doom or Doom II .wad file.

(Zerothis) - # 2010-04-18 18:17:23