DOOM Retro v2.2 is now available. It may be downloaded here, and its release notes are as follows:

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• DOOM Retro’s settings and savegames are now placed in C:\username\DOOM Retro\.
• “.wad” is now removed from savegame folder paths.
• Entering r_gamma off in the console now works correctly.
• Player messages and the automap title are now less translucent.
• Monsters will no longer be alerted when the player punches thin air. They will still be alerted if the player punches a wall, however.
• A bug has been fixed whereby obituaries in the console would be incorrect in some instances.
• Support has been added for MUSINFO lumps.
• Support has also been added for music changer map objects.
• The translucency of health bonuses has been reduced from 33% to 25%.
• A slight change has been made to the background noise effect in the console.
• Screenshots are now saved as PNG files rather than Windows BMP files.
• The full path of the file is now displayed in the console when a screenshot is taken.
• The player’s view will no longer briefly change before the screen wipes when exiting a map.
• The view border is now displayed correctly for PWADs such as valiant.wad and aaliens_rc2.wad.
• The positions of the shadows of some monsters have been improved.
• The flats SLIME09 to SLIME12 no longer animate as liquid in Ancient Aliens.
• The help CCMD will now open the console section of the DOOM Retro Wiki in the default browser.
• There are now ammo, armor and health CVARs that allow changing the player’s ammo, armor and health to specific values.
• The texture offset of linedef 638 in MAP10 of DOOM2 has been corrected.
• The compiler used to build DOOM Retro, and its version, are now displayed in the console at startup.
• A bug has been fixed whereby pressing a mouse or gamepad button at startup in the brief moment before the splash screen appears would cause the screen to stay black.
• Several visual aspects of the console have been redesigned.
• The markers are now smaller in the health and armor bars in the alternate HUD.
• If the player has more than 100% health, a second marker will appear above the health bar in the alternate HUD.
• The armor bar in the alternate HUD is now slightly thinner, and divided into five rather than four sections.
• The larger digits used in the alternate HUD are now consistent with the smaller ones.
• The screen’s green haze when the player has the radiation suit power-up will now be visible if the player also has the berserk power-up, their fists selected, but the r_berserkintensity CVAR set to 0%.
• The default gamepad sensitivity has been increased from 32 to 48.
• Corpses are no longer teleported if the kill CCMD is used.
• Player messages are now always yellow in the console.
• Color CVARs are now set to their defaults, rather than the closest valid value, if invalid at startup.
• C++ style comments are now allowed in MAPINFO lumps.
• The correct colors are now preserved in the automap, the console and the alternate HUD if a PWAD contains a custom PLAYPAL lump. (An example of such a PWAD is skillsaw’s recently released MegaWAD, Ancient Aliens.)
• A bug has been fixed whereby parts of the super shotgun would be transparent in Ancient Aliens.
• The r_corpses_color CVAR is now validated at startup.
• If am_external is on but there’s only one display found, there will no longer be a crash if the graphics system is restarted.
• The number of logical cores and amount of system RAM is now displayed in the console at startup.
• ZDoom’s obituary strings are now ignored in DEHACKED patches so warnings aren’t displayed in the console at startup.
• A bug has been fixed whereby a frame would be skipped when rotating monsters in the DOOM II cast sequence.

DOOM Retro v2.1.3, yet another minor point release, is now available. It may be downloaded here, and its release notes are as follows:

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Scrolling up in the options menu now works correctly.
• The playername CVAR is reset to its default if it’s empty at startup.
• The fixes that DOOM Retro applies to maps in the official DOOM and DOOM II IWADs are now listed in the console when a map is loaded and –devparm is specified on the command-line.
• The default mouse sensitivity has been increased from 24 to 32.
• The health cross in the alternate HUD is now squarer.
• An armor count is now displayed in the alternate HUD.
• A bug has been fixed whereby keycards and skull keys weren’t positioned correctly in the status bar in some instances.
• The brightmap for the SW2BRNGN wall texture is now fixed.
• Blood splats are now always spawned for monsters that bleed when using the kill CCMD.
• Monsters will now be alerted when the player punches a wall or the air.
• The full map title of John Romero’s new map, E1M4B: Phobos Mission Control is now displayed in both the console and AutoMap.
• The player’s view will now bob up and down if they die on a liquid sector.
• Improvements have been made to the accuracy of “Weapon accuracy” in the output of the playerstats CCMD.
• The corpses of monsters are no longer spawned if “No monsters” has been set.

DOOM Retro v2.1.2, another minor point release, is now available. It may be downloaded here, and its release notes are as follows:

• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Changes have been made to the format of savegames that breaks compatibility with previous versions of DOOM Retro.
• Any momentum from the player is now stopped when exiting a map so updating the exit switch is smoother.
• The r_shakescreen CVAR is now a value between 0% and 100%, instead of just on or off. Its default is 100%.
• A bug has been fixed whereby some screen resolutions weren’t displaying correctly in the console at startup.
• DOOM Retro’s settings and savegames are now placed in C:\username\AppData\Local\DOOM Retro\. Remember, to change settings, open the console using the ~ key when DOOM Retro is running.
• Monster counts in the playerstats CCMD are no longer increased if “No monsters” has been set.
• Hanging decorations will no longer drop to the ground when over a liquid sector that moves.
• The direction items are dropped when a monster is killed is now better randomized.
• A bug has been fixed whereby pressing the ENTER key to close the help screen would cause the screen’s aspect ratio to be set incorrectly.
• The effects of changing the r_translucency CVAR are now instantaneous.
• A stray black pixel has been removed from under “N” characters in the menu.
• The WINDOWS key can no longer be pressed when fullscreen, as intended.
• The Windows screensaver is now disabled while DOOM Retro is running.

DOOM Retro v2.1.1, a minor point release, is now available. It may be downloaded here, and its release notes are as follows:

• Pain elementals can now shoot lost souls through two-sided walls that have the ML_BLOCKMONSTERS flag, as is possible in Vanilla DOOM. (An example of this is at the end of MAP04 in requiem.wad.)
• The screen will no longer briefly flash if the player has a berserk or radiation shielding suit power-up and then loads a savegame or starts a new game from the menu.
• The time taken to complete a map is now restored correctly when loading a savegame.
• A bug has been fixed whereby a map would become corrupted if the player triggered a generalized line with no tag (such as when the player takes the “plunge” in MAP08 of jenesis.wad).
• A crash will no longer occur when using the maplist CCMD.
• Multiple STBAR lumps are now better handled. (For example, now the correct status bar will be displayed if JPCP_HUDjpn.wad is loaded along with JPCP_1st.wad.)
• Double-resolution yellow and grey digits will no longer be displayed in the status bar if a STBAR lump from a PWAD is used.
• The correct WAD is displayed in the output of the mapstats in DOOM II: Hell On Earth if nerve.wad is also present.