DOOM-ASCII
Terminal text-mode source port of Doom based on doomgeneric; it needs a WAD file and has no sound.
Source port Human-led releasedFacts
- Original
- Doom (1993)
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Method
- Source port
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2022, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- wojciech-graj
- Started
- 2022-03
- Runs on
- Linux, Windows, 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 you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by wojciech-graj. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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