Roadmap / Wishlist

[pinkwah]

Roadmap for Doom64EX-next

This is a list of stuff that needs to be done to be able to have a proper release.

† In progress
! Critical
? Optional

Doom 64 ROM without Wadgen

• Rewrite deflate code !
• WAD loading !
• N64 graphics format !
• N64 MIDI tracks !
• N64 MIDI soundfont !
• WAD,SSEQ,SN64 offsets for all ROM versions !
• File select dialog when game data is missing !

Console

• Centralised logging API !
• Colour console text ?
• Auto-complete dropdown
• GNU readline support ?
• Fix incorrect tokenisation of semi-colons inside double-quotes !

Menu

• Normalise font size
• Clean up and rename settings menus
• Use hardware cursor when possible
• Allow typing in password menu

Input

• SDL_GameController
• New API that supports multiple controllers, players and bindings
• Support N64 controllers with original bindings ?

Multiplayer

• Split-screen ?

Modding support / Cleanup

• Basic DECORATE support
• Remove the need for LumpHash
• Add a menu for selecting PWADs ?

Graphics

• Do GL_NEAREST on HUD elements
• Add option to toggle the above ?

Renderer

• Replace GLAD for the glbinding library
• Isolate GL 1.4 code ?
• Experimental GL 3.3 ?

Core

• Replace C miniloops with C++ class equivalents
• Isolate network code
• Refactor WAD subsystem

General

• Publish dependencies in an archive
• Flatpak (Linux)
• Figure out macOS distribution