Recomp / Games / MS-DOS

Chocolate Doom

Minimalist Doom source port that aims to match the behaviour of the original DOS executables, including their quirks.

Source port Human-led released
Stars2.4k
Commits, 30 days1
Latest releasechocolate-doom-3.1.1Aug 16, 2025
Last pushOct 12, 2026

GitHub figures as of 2026-10-14, refreshed daily.

Facts

Original
Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife (1993)
Platform
MS-DOS
Method
Source port
Provenance
Human-led · Repo created 2009, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
Status
released
Licence
GPL-2.0
Team
chocolate-doom
Started
2009-06
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, Hexen and Strife you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt by chocolate-doom. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.

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