DOOM Retro v5.2 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 now uses SDL_image v2.8.2.
• Minor optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• If the player dies, their obituary is now displayed in the console in red when the con_obituaries CVAR is on, and also as a player message when the messages CVAR is on.
• A bug is fixed whereby Buckethead’s music wouldn’t be autoloaded when SIGIL_SHREDS.WAD was present.
• The z-coordinate displayed by the IDMYPOS cheat is now correct when the automap is open and the am_followmode CVAR is off.
• These improvements have been made to the support for John Romero’s SIGIL II:
  • A warning is now displayed in the console when attempting to load SIGIL II extracted from the official DOOM port. Please download SIGIL II from here instead.
  • Par times are now displayed on the intermission screen.
  • The correct intermission music is now played when both SIGIL and SIGIL II are loaded.
  • The IDMUS cheat can now be used to change to SIGIL II’s music if it is available.
• Right-clicking the mouse in the menu now hides the mouse pointer if the m_pointer CVAR is on.
• Minor improvements have been made to the help screen opened by pressing the F1 key.
• A bug is fixed whereby the width of monsters was being miscalculated in some rare instances, which in turn could cause nearby line specials not to trigger as intended.
• These improvements have been made to the parsing of DEHACKED lumps:
  • All things declared now have their sprites clipped in liquid sectors if the r_liquid_clipsprites CVAR is on.
  • All monsters declared now cast a shadow if the r_shadows CVAR is on.
  • If a name is specified in parentheses when declaring a thing, it is now used in obituaries when the con_obituaries CVAR is on.
  • The smoke that trails rockets fired by cyberdemons when the r_rockettrails CVAR is on is no longer spawned if certain states or sprites have been changed.
• The mapstats CCMD now correctly indicates if a map is BOOM, MBF or MBF21 compatible.
• Improvements have been made to the console’s background.
• If map titles are obtained from a MAPINFO lump:
  • The maplist CCMD now lists them correctly.
  • When exiting a map and the autosave CVAR is on, the description of the current savegame is now updated with the title of the next map.
• The .wad file extension no longer needs to be included when using the -iwad or -file command-line parameters.
• The weapon CVAR can no longer be changed while the player is dead.
• Helper dogs spawned using the spawn CCMD in the console are now friendly by default. Use spawn unfriendly dog to spawn a dog that will attack the player.
• The player may now use the term unfriendly to refer to monsters that will attack the player when entering the kill, name, resurrect and spawn CCMDs in the console.
• Using the kill CCMD with a value specifying a type of monster no longer thrusts those monsters away from the player.
• A bug is fixed whereby midtextures weren’t being clipped in some rare instances.
• The thinglist CCMD now displays the angle and flags of every thing in the current map.
• Opening the console while entering a savegame description in the save game menu now works correctly.
• When deleting a savegame in the save or load game menus using the DEL key, the closest remaining savegame in the menu is now selected.
• A crash no longer occurs if a map’s title needs to be truncated in the automap.

DOOM Retro v5.1.3 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 now uses SDL_image v2.8.1.
• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• The MD5 hash value of the current map’s WAD is now displayed by the mapstats CCMD.
• Further improvements have been made to the parsing of bossaction in MAPINFO lumps.
• A bug is fixed whereby selecting an episode in the menu wouldn’t change the episode CVAR in some instances.
• SIGIL is now still automatically loaded if found and SIGIL II is manually loaded.
• Improvements have been made to recognizing the SIGIL and SIGIL II WAD files if they have been renamed.

DOOM Retro v5.1.2 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:

• Minor changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• These improvements have been made to the support for John Romero’s SIGIL II:
  • “SIGIL” can no longer be selected in the episode menu if SIGIL isn’t loaded but SIGIL II is.
  • The Spider Mastermind’s health in E6M8: Abyss Of Despair is now correct.
  • Thorr’s music is now louder.
• If the current map is from a supported WAD, its author is now displayed by the mapstats CCMD.
• A bug is fixed whereby the corpses of monsters could remain solid, blocking the player’s path, in some rare instances.
• Minor improvements have been made to text autocompleted in the console by pressing the TAB key.
• Minor improvements have been made to the parsing of enterpic in MAPINFO lumps.

DOOM Retro v5.1.1 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:

• These improvements have been made to the support for John Romero’s SIGIL II:
  • The registered version of SIGIL II is now supported.
  • The correct sky is now displayed.
  • The correct background is now displayed on the intermission screen, and a crash no longer occurs if SIGIL hasn’t also been loaded.
  • Improvements have been made to the “SIGIL II” text in the episode menu.
  • The player now warps to the correct map after finishing the secret map.
  • The titles of Thorr’s music are now displayed by the mapstats CCMD when playing the registered version of SIGIL II.
• Minor improvements have been made to the parsing of bossaction in MAPINFO lumps.

Today is DOOM’s 30th birthday! This also means it’s DOOM Retro’s 10th birthday! To celebrate this, DOOM Retro v5.1 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 built using v17.8.3 of Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022.
• DOOM Retro now uses SDL v2.28.5 and SDL_image v2.8.0.
• Support has been added for John Romero’s newly released SIGIL II.
• Several changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• The automap is now also shown in low detail when the r_detail CVAR is low.
• A bug is fixed whereby the effects of changing a color CVAR for the automap wouldn’t be immediate.
• Explosions from rockets fired by the player and cyberdemons are now randomly mirrored.
• These changes have been made when vanilla mode is enabled:
  • Extra blood is no longer spawned when a monster is injured.
  • Blood and bullet puffs are no longer randomly mirrored.
• Monsters now only become non-solid at the end of their death sequence rather than at the start.
• When the r_shadows CVAR is on, if a monster is fullbright when they attack, the shadow they cast now momentarily becomes slightly lighter.
• The player’s crosshair now displays correctly when the crosshair CVAR is cross and the r_hud_translucency CVAR is off.
• Minor improvements have been made to the parsing of DEHACKED, MAPINFO, MUSINFO and BRGHTMPS lumps.
• The -dog parameter, as well as -dogs 1 to -dogs 8, can now be used on the command-line to spawn one or more MBF-compatible helper dogs at the start of the game. Those dogs that survive each map will then follow the player into the next.
• These changes have been made when pressing the TAB key to autocomplete text in the console:
  • The case of the autocompleted text now always matches the text that’s already been entered.
  • Any text to the left of a semi-colon is no longer cleared.
• The border of the menu’s background is no longer displayed if the vid_fullscreen CVAR is off and the vid_widescreen CVAR is on.
• The spin of the player’s view in the menu’s background can now be disabled by changing the new menuspin CVAR, which is on by default.
• The help screen can now be shown when the menu is open by pressing the F1 key.
• The window’s caption now includes the current episode or expansion when playing a game.
• DOOM Retro no longer remains paused once its window regains focus.
• A bug is fixed whereby the main window would lose focus and the splash screen would be corrupted if an external automap was successfully created at startup because the am_external CVAR was on.
• When the animatedstats CVAR is on:
  • The player’s health now animates correctly if they are telefragged.
  • The player’s health, armor and ammo now animate correctly when loading a savegame.
• A bug is fixed whereby numbers in the alternate widescreen HUD could be positioned incorrectly in some rare instances.
• Minor improvements have been made to the support of Chex Quest, Chex Quest 2, Harmony Compatible and REKKR.
• A bug is fixed whereby monsters would respawn only once when playing on Nightmare! or if the respawnmonsters CCMD was used.
• The “Map explored” stat displayed by the playerstats CCMD is now accurate.
• The mapstats CCMD now shows the number of voodoo dolls in the current map.
• The play CCMD now also accepts a music title as its value, such as atdoomsgate or runningfromevil.
• A bug is fixed whereby screenshots taken by pressing the PRINTSCREEN key would become corrupted in some rare instances.
• Actions may now be bound to the numeric keypad using the bind CCMD with a value numpad0 to numpad9.