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doomretro
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bradharding / doomretro

doomretro

The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC.

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
785GitHub stars
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What it is

The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-15 14:10:21 UTC to 2024-09-21 16:22:56 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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I like how the wiki* says: > Its source code was originally derived from Chocolate DOOM but is now very much its own beast. It does include all the usual, obligatory enhancements that you tend to find in those other source ports out there, but it also has so many of its own cool, original ideas that continues to set itself apart. So yeah, cool, DOOM Retro has a ton of enhancements and a bunch of new features... but then the wiki goes on to say: > DOOM Retro is and always will be intentionally minimalist in its approach So on one hand a gigaton of enhancements and features, but on the other hand minimalism? I don't think you can have it both. That said, I suppose it seems like a cool project for people who like DOOM. * https://github.com/bradharding/doomretro/wiki
In Doomretro – The classic, refined DOOM source port. For Windows PC
Heh, funny this should come up as just last weekend I discovered Doom Retro (doomretro.com). It has a few odd non-retro options enabled by default (screen shake on impact and translucent firey projectiles being the main ones that annoyed me, but they're easy enough to disable) but other than this is probably the closest to a "pure" DOOM experience I've had on a modern OS - not counting DOSBOX of course. It's also Open Source: https://github.com/bradharding/doomretro
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