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ZDoom Starter is a light-weight front-end program that allows players to easily launch their games using their desired Doom Source Ports. This program utilizes some of the modern features available in ZDoom, but also allows the users to add in custom parameters. ZDoom Starter, however, only works on the Windows platforms. As such, Linux support and other Operating Systems are not supported.
- Program Language: Visual Basic (.NET)
- Prerequisites: Microsoft .NET Framework 4
- Human Language: English US
- Legality: GPL 3.0
When configuring the game setup with ZDoom or any other source port, one would have to accomplish this by commandline alone with no provided internal interface. With this program's interface, the goal is to keep it easy and simple. The user shouldn't be bogged down with complex interfaces or try to understand how the command-line works - after getting over how intimidating it is. This program is set to allow the user to expeditiously start the program, setup the game, and go - in a click and forget fashion.
I would prefer to use anything but Visual Basic, however - sometimes we have no choices in our decisions. I am personally prepping for my Capstone class in Spring 2018, our client has formally requested that the program we have to create for them - must be in Visual Basic.NET. Thus, in order to get acquainted with the language - it's best to go full-in with a project, and that is what I did. I have been wanting to make my first Windows GUI program in some time now, and I always thought of making a simple ZDoom front-end program. With that idea by itself, came the ZDoom Starter.