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Vavoom

Source port for Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife by its original author; the repository carries the code without a README.

Source port Human-led stalled

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Facts

Original: Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife
Platform: MS-DOS
Method: Source port
Provenance: Human-led · Repo created 2017, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
Status: stalled
Licence: none
Team: janisl
Started: 2017-06
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 janisl. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction

Sources

https://github.com/janisl/vavoom

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