/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1968051
Chocolate Doom for playing Vanilla Doom on a modern machine and being 100% faithful to the original game and .exe

Boom or PrBoom for a nice glaze, very efficient memory usage and for some nicer mapsets from olden days.

ZDoom or GZDoom for modern mods and stuff, as well as compatibility with Vanilla and Boom mapsets. Also allows for playing in OpenGL mode, allowing for unlimited colors, rather than Software modes limited palette, furthermore allows for true mouselook, jumping and crouching (though keep in mind that the original maps and older mapsets were not made with those features in mind), there's dynamic lights, which can make projectiles and lights really feel more alive, higher resolutions, fog effects, particle effects. There's also filters, but I would recommend against them, most people don't think they look good, and I agree with them.

I suggest you give Doom 1 a go on Chocolate Doom or Boom for your first time.
For best vanilla experience, play with keyboard and mouse (though the original game only had support for horizontal mouselook, this can still be really helpful in when getting around and moving and navigating).