Support for PNG, JPG and TGA format images.Support for sloped floors and ceilings.Runs under DOS, Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7, and Linux.Walking over/under monsters and other things.Ability to use TiMidity as a music source for MIDI and MUS.Quake-style console, with key bindings.100% client/server networking architecture featuring in-game joining.DECORATE support for compatibility with ZDoom.VavoomC, a powerful scripting language.Complete support for free look (look up & down) in all games.Removal of most vanilla Doom limits (including the visplane overflow).Support for all of Hexen's editing features (such as ACS, hubs, and new map formats).Support for all Doom engine games: the various versions of Doom, Heretic, Hexen and Strife.

(The software renderer was removed in v1.33.)

Polygonal engine with colored lighting, OpenGL and Direct3D support, and support for resolutions up to 1600x1200.

The source port, with free installers for all the game shareware files, is included in the Fedora RPM software repository. It is maintained by Jānis Legzdiņš and Firebrand. Vavoom was also the first source port to include Strife support.

Since then, code from the Quake source code has been added, mostly for networking and rendering. It has been in development since September 1999, and was first released in June 2000. Vavoom is a source port created by merging the source code of Doom, Heretic and Hexen.

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