DOOM Retro v4.0.8 is now available to download as either a 32 or 64-bit Windows app. Here’s a list of what’s changed since the last version:

• DOOM Retro is now compiled using v16.9.4 of Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2019.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• The condump CCMD will no longer continue to dump every line of text that is output to the console after it is entered.
• Minor improvements have been made to the DMENUPIC lump.
• Minor changes have been made to the help screen displayed using the F1 key.
• A bug has been fixed whereby the console couldn’t be opened using the ~ key on certain keyboards.
• The player will no longer be spawned into a map such that they could be stuck in the ceiling.
• Player messages will now quickly fade off of the screen if the fade CVAR is on when the alternate widescreen HUD is displayed.
• The vid_showfps CVAR can now be on at startup if set in a .cfg file that is either loaded using the WAD launcher or specified on the command-line.
• Dead monsters may now be spawned again using the spawn CCMD.
• A bug has been fixed whereby things with the MF_BOUNCES flag wouldn’t explode.
• More fixes have been applied to certain maps when the r_fixmaperrors CVAR is on.
• -shot may be now be used as an alternative to -shotdir on the command-line.
• A bug has been fixed whereby corpses wouldn’t gib correctly in some rare instances if the r_corpses_gib CVAR was on.