First post, by feipoa
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I just learned about jDoom, jHeretic, and jHexen. It uses what is called the Doomsday Engine to enable 3D accelerated graphics. I was just at the website for this project and noticed that the current system requirements are: Windows Vista+,DirectX 8+, and GPU with OpenGL 2.1. https://manual.dengine.net/guide/2.0/readme_windows
Does anyone know the the latest revision of the Doomsday engine, or if going back further in time, the latest versions of jDoom, jHeretic, and jHexen which run well on older hardware? In particular, I am using a Voodoo2 with a Matrox G200. I currently run DoomGL on this setup (Cyrix 5x86-133) and it runs beautifully on my hardware, however, I was looking for an accelerated analogy for Heretic and Hexen, and came upon the Doomsday engine. I do not want to install above DirectX6.1.
Looking at the Wayback Machine for Doomsday HQ and picking a random date of August 1, 2002, I see that the requirements were DirectX6 and NT4/Win9x. I was hoping that someone might know the version most suitable for my system to save me some trial and error.
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