DOOM Retro is intentionally minimalistic in its approach, and does a few things differently if
 compared with other modern DOOM source ports. Open the ¥ DOOM Retro Wiki for details.

DOOM Retro v4.9.2 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 is now built using v17.5.5 of Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022.
• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• DOOM Retro’s window caption now always includes the text “DOOM Retro”.
• Changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• Minor improvements have been made to the text that can be autocompleted in the console by pressing the TAB key.
• The menu’s background is now rendered correctly if DOOM Retro’s window is extremely wide.
• Adjusting the sliders in the options and sound volume menus using the mouse pointer is now more responsive when the m_pointer CVAR is on.
• Widescreen mode can now be toggled using the + and – keys while the menu is open.
• The sucktime CVAR now shows as being off when set to 0, and now has a maximum value of 24 hours.
• The time displayed on the intermission screen is now positioned better if the player takes more than an hour to complete a map and the sucktime CVAR is greater than its default of 1 hour.
• The map’s title in the automap is now gold if the player is in the secret map of DOOM II: No Rest For The Living.
• When the flashkeys CVAR is on:
  • Flashing keycards and skull keys are now positioned correctly in the alternate widescreen HUD.
  • Improvements have been made to flashing keycards and skull keys in the status bar when the player tries to open a BOOM-compatible door that requires all six keys.
• A bug is fixed whereby the amount of armor the player has was positioned incorrectly in the alternate widescreen HUD in some instances.
• Improvements have been made to the console’s background when the player has an invulnerability power-up or the r_textures CVAR is off.
• The number of monsters left to kill in a map, displayed in the automap when the am_playerstats CVAR is on, is now always correct after loading a savegame.
• The bounce of the player’s weapon when they land after a fall is now slightly faster when the weaponbounce CVAR is on.
• The default value of the am_markcolor CVAR is now 89.
• The default values of the joy_deadzone_left and joy_deadzone_right CVARs are now both 25%.
• These changes have been made to vanilla mode toggled using the vanilla CCMD:
  • The +strafe action is now bound to the mouse2 control again, allowing the player to strafe with the mouse, and to also double-click the button to use doors and switches.
  • The speed the player can move forward and back, and strafe left and right, has been reduced.
• Improvements have been made to the alternate widescreen HUD when the r_hud_translucency CVAR is off and either the r_textures CVAR is also off or the player has an invulnerability power-up.

DOOM Retro v4.9.1 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 v17.5.4 of Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022.
• Optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance and stability of DOOM Retro.
• Several changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• When playing DOOM (Shareware), games are now saved in a separate folder to the full version of DOOM.
• A bug is fixed whereby the music’s volume wasn’t being set correctly in some instances.
• A crash no longer occurs when a corpse is crushed into gibs by a lowering sector in some instances.
• When the m_pointer CVAR is on:
  • Adjusting the sliders in the options and sound volume menus using the mouse pointer is now more responsive.
  • The mouse pointer is now visible in the console if the player moves the mouse while it is open. Clicking anywhere below the console during a game now closes it.
• The map’s title in the automap is now gold if the player is in a secret map.
• The smoke trailing rockets when the r_rockettrails CVAR is on is now colored correctly even if a custom PLAYPAL lump is loaded.
• When loading a savegame:
  • A warning is now displayed in the console if a WAD is missing.
  • A bug is fixed whereby the number of items to be picked up in the map was wrong in some instances.
• The player now slides more smoothly against walls at certain angles.
• These changes have been made to the radiation shielding suit power-up:
  • The screen no longer briefly flashes yellow when the player picks up the power-up and the r_pickupeffect CVAR is on.
  • If the r_radsuiteffect CVAR is off:
    • The screen now briefly flashes green when the player picks up the power-up and the r_pickupeffect CVAR is on.
    • The screen now flashes green again to indicate when the power-up is about to run out.
• The screen no longer briefly flashes yellow when the player picks up a berserk power-up and the r_pickupeffect CVAR is on.
• When the player uses a controller, it now rumbles when they use their chainsaw, there’s no target, and the joy_rumble_weapons CVAR is on.

DOOM Retro v4.9 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 v17.5.3 of Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022.
• DOOM Retro now uses SDL v2.26.5.
• Several optimizations have been made to further improve the overall performance, stability and memory usage of DOOM Retro.
• Several changes have been made to text that is output to the console.
• When the m_pointer CVAR is on:
  • The mouse pointer may now be used to move:
    • The sliders in the options and sound volume menus.
    • The text caret when entering a savegame description in the save game menu.
  • Selecting menu items using the mouse pointer is now accurate when the vid_widescreen CVAR is off.
  • The mouse pointer is no longer shown on the help screen if the mouse is moved.
• The positions of ON/OFF and HIGH/LOW in the options menu have been fixed in some instances.
• A bug is fixed whereby when changing the r_pickupeffect CVAR in the console, the r_damageeffect CVAR would be changed instead.
• The player’s health, armor and ammo in both the status bar and widescreen HUD now animate when they change. This can be disabled by the new animatedstats CVAR, which is on by default and off when vanilla mode is enabled.
• These changes have been made to the alternate widescreen HUD:
  • The position of the player’s health is now fixed when 0% and the negativehealth CVAR is off.
  • Every part of the HUD is now black, silhouetted against the bright background, when the player has an invulnerability power-up or the r_textures CVAR is off.
  • The vertical positions of some of the weapon silhouettes have changed.
  • Minor improvements have been made to the armor bar when the player has blue armor.
• Crashes no longer occur when:
  • Changing the health CVAR to 0% or less.
  • Using the take CCMD to take more health from the player than they have.
• A bug is fixed whereby widescreen mode wouldn’t be restored correctly when turning vanilla mode off using the vanilla CCMD.
• NEXT and SECRETNEXT now work as intended in MAPINFO lumps.
• Partial translucency effects when the r_sprites_translucency CVAR is on, and smoke that trails rockets when the r_rockettrails CVAR is on, now appear again if a custom PLAYPAL lump is loaded.
• The player’s “Health picked up” stat now updates correctly when the player picks up a soul sphere.
• A bug is fixed whereby the number of monsters in the map may have been wrong after loading a savegame in some instances.
• Blood splats are no longer overly bright when the r_textures CVAR is off.
• Masked midtextures with a brightmap specified in a BRGHTMPS lump now display correctly when the r_brightmaps CVAR is on.
• Bound controls are now grouped by type when saved in doomretro.cfg and in the output of the bindlist CCMD.
• The triangles in the automap that represent every blood splat, displayed when using the IDDT cheat, are now slightly larger.
• Blood is now shown when shooting a lost soul and the r_blood CVAR is red.
• The movement of some sectors is now smoother when the vid_capfps CVAR is not 35.
• A bug is fixed whereby pressing a key or mouse button while a controller is rumbling could cause the rumble to continue indefinitely in some instances.
• These changes have been made to the fuzz effect applied to both the player’s weapon when they have a partial invisibility power-up, and to spectres:
  • A crash no longer occurs if the sprite of a spectre touches the top of the screen.
  • The effect is no longer frozen when freeze mode is on.
• The vid_borderlesswindow CVAR is now on by default.
• The vid_vsync CVAR is now off by default.
• Minor improvements have been made to translating certain words when the english CVAR is international.
• Thing triangles no longer move in the automap when the IDDT cheat has been entered and freeze mode is on.