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Commodore 64 and VIC-20
[edit]Should the C64 version of Doom be included? The project page is here: https://scpu.amidog.se/doku.php?id=scpu%3Adoom Here's a video of it running in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZzivzuDOls&ab_channel=NostalgiaNerd JettaMann (talk) 16:31, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
Nintendo Switch
[edit]Why isn't the Nintendo Switch under Consoles? I have one and can confirm that it is used primarily as a console. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RatherCoolDude (talk • contribs) 12:26, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
- It is a console, and the redundant entry (it's already mentioned as part of the 25th anniversary releases) was removed. oknazevad (talk) 18:54, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
List of unofficial source ports merged into this article
[edit]Someone performed a merge that brought into this article (previously dedicated to official Doom ports) a list (note list, not article) of unofficial source ports, a list that not only is larger than the original article we had here, but is also of very questionable quality and completeness. The author says there was a discussion previous to the change being made, but it was supposedly in the Wikiproject Videogames talk page, not here as it should have happened, and even then I can't find any record of it. If nobody opposes, I'm pushing to have that list back to its own list as it was before. --uKER (talk) 00:37, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
Done --uKER (talk) 18:53, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
Oh uh Yowwwk7391 (talk) 23:23, 22 March 2021 (UTC)
- For the record, the merge was restored a week later, with an edit summary which links directly to the precise thread where the merge was originally discussed. Yes, the merge discussion should have been held on this talk page per Wikipedia policy, and that procedural consideration certainly would have saved uKER some time, but from the looks of it there isn't enough push here to overturn the consensus. Martin IIIa (talk) 23:36, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
Improved diagram of popular source ports
[edit]I have generated a new slightly updated and imho improved diagram of the common source ports.
1. It adds few recent forks of some of the known ports that are getting popular too.
2. It removes the requirement for the Boom-compatible ports to be in a subgraph, because that is deforming the graph in an undesirable way.
3. It adds a legend.
Can someone please review this diagram and add it to the article if appropriate? https://www.mediafire.com/file/gvbidhtqyxhjxp6/doom_source_ports.svg/file
The graphviz source code if someone wants to experient: https://www.mediafire.com/file/rz65a0mu7eq7ofe/doom_source_ports.dot/file Youda008 (talk) 09:54, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
What doesn't count
[edit]It should be noted that the list of "devices" it's been ported to should only count actual ports to actual equipment where Doom actually "runs on" the device itself. Things have gotten out of hand in the past few years with media reporting things like Doom running on a pregnancy-test or a LEGO-brick and such when it was doing no such thing. In cases like these, it's running on an Arduino that was simply crammed into the aforementioned items, and thus does NOT count as "running on" them. By that logic, you could shove the same Arduino into a banana and claim "Doom is running on an banana" (or an apple and say it's "running on an Apple"), or swallow the Arduino and say it's "running on a human", or embed a smartphone running Doom into a toaster, and countless other nonsense examples. These sorts of things should not be included.There's already a note about it being ported to a Raspberry Pi, and adding a note about it being ported to Arduino is sufficient. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Synetech (talk • contribs) 21:55, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
- Should we remove the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom port then? Martin IIIa (talk) 16:38, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
- It has been well over two weeks with no response to my question, so I'll give WP:BRD a shot and remove the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom port from the list. Martin IIIa (talk) 01:29, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
Nuon port
[edit]An article in Next Generation 40 (April 1998) mentions that VM Labs were using a source port of Doom as a demo for the Nuon. This struck me as significant because this was just a month or two after the Doom source code was released, so it must have been one of the first source ports, perhaps the first, and because it was actually being used a hardware tech demonstration. However, I'm not well-versed enough in source ports to be certain this is notable enough to mention in the article, and I've also noticed the source ports section has no sub-section for home consoles (only personal computers, portables, and virtual machines. So I put it to anyone who would care to answer: Should I add this to the article? And if so, where? Martin IIIa (talk) 16:51, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
Nintendo Alarmo port
[edit]https://x.com/GaryOderNichts/status/1852753537001718021 Is this enough to cite the existence of the unofficial Alarmo port? ItzSwirlz (talk) 17:13, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- Oh, and here's the GitHub link. ItzSwirlz (talk) 17:13, 2 November 2024 (UTC)