PRBOOM+ ENHANCED or PrBOOMplus-ENHANCED also name PB+G for "PrBOOMplus-Green" for short is a free copyleft software in development for the FPS game Doom. So this is a port is in development since -11/26/2023 15H46.55... (UTC+2) (But Damnerz got the idea before.)
PrBOOMplus-ENHANCED has to be enhanced version of the existing ports PrBOOM-PLUS with the new features from others ports : DSDA Doom (Doom Speed Demo Archive is a website and a Doom source port), MBF (stand for Marines Best Friend), PRBOOM and maybe others ports (idk like GzDoom or Crispy Doom or Eternity Engine). This project will work on a bunch devices like the Nintendo 3ds, and Linux and Windows OS, PrBOOMplus-ENHANCED 3ds takes some features from some DsDoom, PrBoom 3ds, and chocolate DOOM DS/3DS, maybe some other existing ports on the web.
What is a license on Github ?
So a license is a very important a text file for an open-source project like prboom-plus-ENHANCED. This document set the legal terms and conditions for using, distributing, and modifying the code of a software. They allow others to contribute and improve the sofware, build a community around the project and also protect the rights of the software users.
Here is the website of "free software foundation" for more informations.
Small definition of GNU-GPL.
GNU is an extensive collection of free software, which can be used as an operating system or can be used in parts with other operating systems. The use of the completed GNU tools led to the family of operating systems popularly known as Linux. Most of GNU is licensed under the GNU Project's own General Public License (GPL).
Everyone can be a contributors and can contribute to this open-source project. You can submit some logos, some sprites, some maps (Why Not), some code. You don't need to be experiemented to contribute to this project. To share your ideas you have the github channel and the discord channel too on. You don't a big devices to help to create this software/homebrew port. Keep in mind that everything will be checked to avoid problems and that we will have to be convinced to add your ideas, such things a vote or an event in the community would be appreciated.
About the feedback, so you can discuss about on the project in the discussion channel of PrBoom-Plus-ENHANCED on the Github. There are differents channels to talk for the purpose.
Or just click on this link: - https://discord.gg/Xw9DEsbZdj Its the discord server of PrBOOMplus-ENHANCED a way to bring the community together.
So you are in the Readme.md file for the Linux version of PrBOOMplus-ENHANCED ENHANCED.
So PrBOOMplus-ENHANCED gonna be a free software for a buch of Linux OS the basic UBUNTU and Fedora and maybe Arch and some other lightweight distros. But keep in mind, the originals wadfiles of DOOM are not provided. Get DOOM.wad DOOM2.wad get them on GOG.com or Steam.com (links below) Unless you can have the freDoom wadfiles for free : freedoom1.wad, freedoom2.wad and FreeDM on the official github/website. Freedoom is a version of Doom free and libre with some tweaks and it's under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Website and github for the freedoom wadfiles :
Get the original Doom's wadfiles to purchase here :
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https://www.gog.com/fr/game/Doom_1993 ;GOG website Doom 1
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2280/DOOM_1993/ ;Steam Website Doom 1
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2300/DOOM_II/ ;Steam Website Doom 2
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https://www.gog.com/fr/game/Doom_ii ;GOG website Doom 2
Here are the repositories at their respective original github profile.
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https://github.com/coelckers ;maker of Prboom-Plus source port.
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https://github.com/Voxel9 ;maker of Prboom-Plus 3DS the port of PrBOOMplus as a Nintendo 3DS homebrew.
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https://github.com/TheChuckster ;maker of DsDoom a the Nintendo DS port of Doom as homebrew.
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https://github.com/devinackers ;maker of the PrBoom Nintendo 3DS port as homebrew.
Go check out their github profile because they're cool.
(If you need to check something???)
The officials things.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game) ;the Doom story
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https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM ;the base of all sources ports, here it is the Linux Doom source code on github released by John CARMACK himself.
The story of Doom's sources ports:
- https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Source_port ;DoomWiki Doom's sources ports stories and explaination.
The simplified tree of Doom's sources ports :
The BOOM branch based on Doom, Linux Doom, and DOSDoom.
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https://doomwiki.org/wiki/DOSDoom ;DoomWiki DOSDoom
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https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Boom ;DoomWiki Boom
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https://doomwiki.org/wiki/PrBoom ;DoomWiki PrBoom
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https://DoomWiki.org/wiki/PrBoom%2B ;DoomWiki Prboom-Plus
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https://DoomWiki.org/wiki/MBF ;DoomWiki MBF port
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https://DoomWiki.org/wiki/DSDA-Doom ;DoomWiki DSDA Doom port
Doom on everything //// But Linux was the first to have the DoomGuy^^.