Doom was originally designed in 1993 for 32-bit DOS computers with 4 MB of RAM. It's mostly written in C code with very little assembly code. It has been ported to all kinds of systems. Usually these systems are 32-bit or more and have a flat memory model.
Doom8088: Atari ST Edition is a port for Atari ST computers. It's based on Doom8088, a port of Doom for 16-bit DOS computers. Download Doom8088: Atari ST Edition here.
What's special?:
- Supports only Doom 1 Episode 1
- Rotating overlaid automap
- Only demo3 is supported
- 16 and 2 color modes
- PC speaker like sound effects
- No music
- No texture mapped floors and ceilings
- No light diminishing
- No saving and loading
- No multiplayer
- No PWADs
- No screen resizing
- No mouse and joystick support
Known bugs:
- When there's not enough memory for a texture, one color is drawn
- When there's not enough memory for the intermission screen, the last few frames of gameplay are shown instead
| Action | Keys |
|---|---|
| Fire | Ctrl |
| Use | Enter & Space |
| Sprint | Shift |
| Walk | Arrow keys |
| Strafe | Alt |
| Strafe left and right | < & > |
| Automap | Tab |
| Automap zoom in and out | + & - |
| Automap follow mode | F |
| Weapon up and down | [ & ] |
| Menu | Esc |
| Quit to OS | F10 |
| Code | Effects | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| IDCHOPPERS | Chainsaw | |
| IDDQD | God mode | |
| IDKFA | Weapons & Keys | |
| IDFA | Weapons | |
| IDSPISPOPD | No Clipping | |
| IDBEHOLDV | Invincibility | |
| IDBEHOLDS | Berserk | |
| IDBEHOLDI | Invisibility | |
| IDBEHOLDR | Radiation shielding suit | |
| IDBEHOLDA | Auto-map | |
| IDBEHOLDL | Lite-Amp Goggles | |
| IDCLEV | Exit Level | |
| IDEND | Show end text | |
| IDROCKET | Enemy Rockets | (GoldenEye) |
| IDRATE | Toggle FPS counter | Divide by 10 to get the real FPS |
| Command line argument | Effect |
|---|---|
-nosfx |
Disable sound effects |
-nosound |
Disable sound effects |
-timedemo demo3 |
Run benchmark |
| Platform | Platform specific code | Compiler | Build script | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atari ST | i_ast.c, i_vast16.c |
m68k-atari-mintelf binutils, GCC, MiNTLib | bast16h.sh, bast16m.sh, bast16l.sh |
320x200 16 color mode, high/medium/low detail mode |
| Atari ST | i_ast.c, i_vast2.c |
m68k-atari-mintelf binutils, GCC, MiNTLib | bast2.sh |
640x200 4 color mode, 2 colors are used |
| IBM PC 16-bit | i_ibm.c, i_vcgabw.c |
gcc-ia16 | bcgabw.sh |
See Doom8088 |
Doom8088: Atari ST Edition needs an IWAD file that has been preprocessed by jWadUtil.