Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20170225142933/@comment-1496755-20170425104521

"The Deathstalker Paradox" - devoting so much time to a game that isn't even your favorite. It's true - source ports always feel a little awakward, even if they add some much welcome improvements (like HUD stats, letting you see if you've missed anything), and so the DosBox experience is my paragon for "purity". Even the official source port, Doom 95, changes some things in an annoying way and thus doesn't feel 100% authentic. With Quake it never felt that different - at high resolutions I can hardly notice a difference between 1.06 and Winquake, so it still feels quite genuine. The only really obvious source port difference is GLQuake's blurriness due to the texture filtering, of course.

Heh, indeed, for the sake of delving into history, I'd often play even the buggier older versions - 1.1 with its broken 5th and 6th save slot (and lots of rough edges in many levels), or even 1.0 with its really clunky controls and tons of other glitches. And then we have the Alphas that don't even have sound and crash pretty often. A while ago I also dug into some Commander Keen betas - there were some curious differences. I really wish we could find that Quake Beta somewhere... it would be a great thing to stream. And, even weirder, for some games I only play the older versions and completely ignore the latest - the best example is WoW. The newest version I play is from 2010 :P

GZDoom should support DEHACKED, but only the latest version (text format). Some old PWADs, most notably the famous Aliens TC, use the older format, which is binary, and GZDoom doesn't support it.

Oh, if you're doing commercial add-ons, would this include Q!Zone? Or is it a chronological thing?

Apart from Doom, I also maintain many different version of several Blizzard titles - easy, due to how convenient their patching system is.

Yeah, I guess the old control scheme won't be to your liking. I tried playing Doom with more modern controls but it felt really wrong and made me feel... dirty. So I stick to my keyboarding ways. You probably won't believe for how long I kept playing Quake with the keyboard only :D

Yay, the power truly is yours! Good luck in that ancient realm.