/vr/ - Retro Games

Is there a program that will merge together a bunch of WADs containing multiple maps into a combined map pack? I want to make an Oblige survival with 100 maps all in a single WAD file, but I don't even know if that's doable.

I wanna have an old school LAN party and play some fucking Doom and some fucking Quake together with some friends. Figuring that Doom and Quake pretty much run on toasters (moreover Doom than Quake), would all I need are some thin clients and an Ethernet switch? I'd figure that modern-day thin clients can at least play both games in software rendering mode if anything.

Also what would be a good source port for both games for networked play? Networked, not online, mind you...

Real talk here

I am so used to Doom that I can't even make it through new DOOM without getting bored out of my mind. Does anyone else experience this?

I really wanna make it through the rest of the game but I just can't be assed to. It's not holding my attention for long at all. The mouse aiming doesn't feel great at all, movement speed is slow until you do some silly sidequest, and there's just too much padding to "make the player feel like they're getting rewarded for playing the game"

I remember when just beating that one level or that one boss was all people needed to feel good about themselves when playing a game. Clearing insanely difficult Doom levels is still ultimately satisfying to me.

But new DOOM just isn't clicking with me at all...