DOOM_Ants 0.1.0 — first playable Linux release

The first playable build of DOOM_Ants — id Software's 1997 DOOM engine, modernised to build and run on today's 64-bit Linux through SDL2.

What's in it

• 🎵 Music is back — the in-WAD soundtrack plays as clean General MIDI (FluidSynth), with sound effects untouched.
• 💾 Saving fixed — save/load no longer corrupts memory or crashes.
• ⌨️ WASD movement alongside the arrow keys.
• 🖥️ Bigger, resizable, fullscreen-capable window (-fullscreen).
• 🎮 -iwad switch to pick DOOM 1 / DOOM 2 / Ultimate Doom from one folder.

Download & run (Linux x86-64)

Grab doom_ants-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz below, then:

tar xzf doom_ants-0.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd doom_ants-0.1.0
./linuxxdoom -iwad /path/to/doom1.wad

You'll need a DOOM .wad (not included — the free shareware doom1.wad works) and a few runtime libraries. See the bundled README.txt for the one-line install command for your distro (SDL2, SDL2_mixer, FluidSynth, a GM soundfont).

A Windows build and a fully self-contained package are planned for later.

GPL v2, derived from id Software's DOOM source.