Information URL: http://legacy.newdoom.com


After two long years of development, the Doom Legacy team is proud to announce you a new stable release of Doom Legacy. As you may know it if you followed the beta development, lots of things have changed since 1.30. Legacy now runs under FreeBSD, OS/2 and MacOS X. Binaries are available today for GNU/Linux, Win32 and Dos.

Some highlights :

Editing
- Added 3D-Floors and 3D translucent water in both software and hardware mode
- Added volumetric fog and 3D lights in software mode
- Added enhanced FraggleScript support
- Added Heretic support
- Coloured sector lighting


Hardware specific enhancements
- Some work on the lighting and the coronas
- Much improved OpenGL and Glide support (supports nearly all software features)
- Added support for 3D positional sound cards (require DirectX 7 or above)
- Improved map loading time


Multiplayer
- Timeout detection and kick player if connection timeout
- New menu option : create server and connect server
- Use masterserver to detect all servers in the world
- Fixed issues with netgame and dehacked
- No more palette change in splitscreen


Misc
- New console variables added (see help inside Legacy)
- New utility to easily add FraggleScript to any map
- New slightly modified launcher
- New demonstration map (RainBowStar)
- ...and the usual bug fixes (lots of them)...