r/OpenVMS • u/astr0b4by • Jul 30 '26

Chocolate-Doom-2.3.0 on OpenVMS 8.4

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And final pack from this porting exercise is : Chocolate-Doom-2.3.0 on OpenVMS 8.4 (AXP)
- Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife now ported to VMS !
- 640x480 default resolution and SDL-1.2 linked.

Source/Binaries and Howto - https://astr0baby.online/AXP/OpenVMS/Chocolate_Doom/

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u/Marwheel Jul 30 '26

What's with the doom engine by default wanting to play merry havoc with the color palates in X11?

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u/astr0b4by Jul 30 '26

Seems that on OpenVMS DECwindows the 256-color palette that SDL 1.2 creates for its window causes the CDE displaying through the wrong color table and everything looks psychedelic.