Where can I download doom.wad/Doom2.wad

[Planky]

If you dont own the game, buy it, don't be a cheapskate by downloading pirated copies. We do not support warez of any sort. You can still buy the game at idsoftware.com

[thegrimmling]

Don't be dumb. Just buy the game like the rest of us did.
- Rellik

[Hurdler]

You can also use freedoom (http://freedoom.sourceforge.net) if you want to try Doom Legacy without the original games.

[Inga-KX]

That has been asked so many times....

You can't go wrong. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002ESMG8/026-7947110-5902832)

[Mephisto]

LMFAO

do you even know what you're saying? buy doom? dude, its 2005! You can't buy Doom anymore! There's not ANY store that sells more than 10 year old games. And even if you find it, who's gonna pay 40 bucks for such an old game?

Ever heard of the term abandonware? It's games of which the creators gave up hope of ever selling another copy. There's sites dedicated to these kind of old games where you can download them. I'm not posting links to those though, i'd probably get myself banned by one of those high morality mods that claim they bought Doom last month. I'm not trying to promote warez, people that want Doom 3 should buy it, but there really isnt anything wrong with downloading such an old game. ID didnt release the source code for nothing...

[Mike D]

do you even know what you're saying? buy doom? dude, its 2005! You can't buy Doom anymore! There's not ANY store that sells more than 10 year old games. And even if you find it, who's gonna pay 40 bucks for such an old game?

Plenty of stores are carrying the Doom Collectors Edition, a two CD set containing Ultimate Doom, Final Doom, and Doom 2, as well as the WinDoom front end. It came out just last year. The copies I've seen retailed for $9.99. Obviously the collection contains all the WADs, and in their fully patched versions.

Mike

[Grazza]

Yes, I bought Collector's Edition a couple of weeks ago from the Virgin Megastore in London (the third time I've bought the Doom games :) ). It may not be in all the small stores, but those with a wide selection of computer games are likely to have it. Not to mention online retailers.

And id clearly haven't given up any hope of selling copies. Not that that would give anyone the right to warez it anyway.

Obviously the collection contains all the WADs, and in their fully patched versions.Not quite - TNT.WAD is as originally released, and does not feature the map31 patch (http://www.teamtnt.com/bugfixes.htm). Also, the Master Levels are not included, which seems a shame, as it makes them rather hard to obtain, except via eBay, etc.

[Mike D]

Not quite - TNT.WAD is as originally released, and does not feature the map31 patch (http://www.teamtnt.com/bugfixes.htm). Also, the Master Levels are not included...

I appreciate the corrections. So then, what I said, amended by what he said.

Mike

[Mephisto]

Heh, sorry for talking crap then. I've never heard about the Collectors Edition until now, nor have i ever seen any copy of doom in a store within the last couple of years, let alone one of the lesser known spinoffs, like plutonia and evilution.
$9,95 really isnt a big load of money, so i'm gonna see if i can get a copy of that somehow. And no, i dont say warez are a good thing, but really old games dont fall in that category anymore, cause usually the company that made it doesnt support it anymore. Sometimes it even gets released for free, like what rockstar did with GTA1 and some others.

[Danimetal]

It´s curious: I see it as Id releasing the code but keeping the rights over graphics, sounds, maps... Where I live Doom is still sold, but only in quite big places (and there´s only one) and in small amounts of copies. Ithink that it´s another edition, different from the collectors ´cos it only features Ultimate Doom and Doom2.

[Mike D]

...so i'm gonna see if i can get a copy of that somehow.

Amazon.com has copies for under ten bucks if you purchase via Marketplace. I also run across copies all the time at Wal-Mart and EB. You shouldn't have to search too hard. Don't order it from idsoftware.com, though; their asking price ($30 + S&H) is too high.

You probably already know this, but I'll mention it anyway: WinDoom isn't really worth the bother. It's a barely adequate front end with no bonus features at all. It's better to use one of the source ports mentioned on this site; I personally prefer JDoom, but opinions vary.

Mike

[The Undertaker]

You shouldn't be dissing WinDoom (http://www.doomworld.com/doom4win).

[temp]

Download it from:
EDIT by Hurdler: No warez here. Thanks

[Harry]

Oh man this guy is dumb... NO WAREZ.

[Zinya]

... and the wads don't always work when you play multiplayer games... and what's this about the windoom front end? it isn't on my copy

[rustyslacker]

Your disc should have come with the DOOM 95 launcher, and if it doesn't work, use one of the sourceports available at newdoom.com

[BIGslammer]

There is a Shareware version of Ultimate Doom for Windows 95 across the net. It's fairly easy to find. Multiple places carry the download. The only problem is since it's free, it only carries one of the four episodes.

You can get the whole Doom Collector for 10 dollars at Wal-Mart. Doom, DoomII, and Final Doom.

You cant beat the price of ten bucks for all three games. It's months worth of play... hopefully this will help a little big. Please note that pretty much Wal-Mart is the only place that carries that package unless you buy it online. Best buy, Target, Circuit City and places like that surpringly did not carry the collection.

The case will be a small case. It's as big as a CD. It might be a little difficult to find. It would be ideal to find a picture online to find out what the case looks like. I lucked out and spotted the case after about ten minutes of looking.

Anyways.. GOOD LUCK! and enjoy!

[xiO]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005OMZV.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
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[rustyslacker]

I bought my copy at Best Buy in a regular box, not a jewel case.

[killuminati96]

I got the box set The Depths of Doom Trilogy back before all those school shootings happened. It came with an extra CD with Master Levels and Maximum Doom on it. *bang* It didn't come with Final Doom tho which is a rip off seeing how it is suppose to be the trilogy.

[Aliotroph?]

It didn't say THE trilogy, just that it was a trilogy, which from your description is exactly what it is. :)

lol I love that guy who said you couldn't buy DooM after it was mentioned you could buy it on id's website. *rofl*

Newdoom sells DooM as well. I always see jewel case editions listed on the main page.

[mindless rambler]

What I don't understand is how people are so stupid to ask for a download link to the Doom games. Also, it would be funny if sites posted a free SNES converted to Windows Doom wad alongside the shareware Doom. The SNES Doom is so crappy it should be free...

[Aliotroph?]

I think most of the people who ask about downloads are kids who haven't figured out the concept of source ports. Makes sense.

[DooMGater]

Plenty of stores are carrying the Doom Collectors Edition, a two CD set containing Ultimate Doom, Final Doom, and Doom 2, as well as the WinDoom front end. It came out just last year. ...
Ok, just to make it a little bit clearer. Mike D is wrong. The collectors Edition, which is already awailable for several years does not come with WINDOOM (http://www.doomworld.com/doom4win/) (which is a completely independent port). The Collectors Edition comes with DOOM95, a basic windows port of id softwares DOS-Engines, that was released with FINAL DOOM. I heard, that DOOM95 was in fact enginered by Microsoft to push their Win95 and DirectX (which was brandnew at this time), but I am not sure about this point. DOOM95 is not the best port and unfortunately, it does not support mouselook under Windows 2000 / XP. So it is better to use an other source port like doomsday (http://doomsdayhq.com), ZDoom (http://zdoom.org) , Legacy (http://legacy.newdoom.com) or the real WINDOOM (http://www.doomworld.com/doom4win/).

BTW: Some years ago, the collectors edition DID contain the original DOS-Engines, but
id software removed them :-( in the newer editions Right now, it is available in two formats, CD-Jewelcase and DVD-Box ( Both containing only 2 CDs. The former Collectors Edition came together with a DOOM-Poster and a nice booklet, I think). There was also a think called the doom trilogy, but this is a different story....

[Phoebus]

Newdoom sells DooM as well.No, we don't sell it, nor would we. We just provide links to all the DOOM related items available on Amazon.com.

[Aliotroph?]

Ugh, I get too much wrong when I post at stupid hours of the morning. Obviously Newdoom doesn't sell stuff on its own. *smacks self for writing that* Oh well, close enough. In summary, sometimes you can find a link on the main page to buy DooM.

[Heidi]

Censored for GREAT JUSTICE - planky

Warez talk is forbidden in the forums, hence the silence and downloading pirated EXE's ain't as safe as not mentioning viruses would make it seem.

Also google for "DosBox". DosBox is a ms-dos real-mode emulator for Windows 2000/XP that works VERY WELL. i've already been playing about an hour of doom2

Pointless. 2.8ghz here and still choppy, DosBox, at it's current state, shouldn't be used for 486+, specially psuedo-3d games.

Yes i know there's Doom95 out, and DoomGL, for openGL, but call me crazy, but i'm nastalgic

http://chocolate-doom.sf.net/

i VERY fondly remember the days of dialing into DWANGO on my 2400Baud modem, to deathmatch some punk in alabama, whom i'd meet up and frag every weekend. Ahhh, those were the days. You internet youngsters don't know lag until you've been on a 2400 baud for hours trying to deathmatch over thousands of miles of phone lines :)

I couldn't really have a legitimate word on that feeling because I didn't have much time for games back in the day and every now and then, as the chance came, I knew I wasn't going to waste it with lag or punks.

And btw, i bought the retail version of doom2, on floppy disks. ID Software DOES NOT KEEP PURCHASE RECORDS. I've phoned them and e-mailed them, and they will not replace my lost disk set. My only choice is to find it online somewhere, i'm not buying it again because they refuse to help me.

Ignoring the fact that ID no longer supports the retail version of Doom2, shame on you for being so cheap and irresponsible at disk manipulation.

[kithylin]

It's not warez if you own the original copy and just can not find it. Espically if said company that producded it will not replace your lost install media. And DosBox is about CPU cycles, you have to up/down cpu cycles in the config until it's right for your machine. That is, until it almost uses 100% cpu usage, but not quite. I have a 3.457ghz P4 and it runs flawlessly, doom2, duke3dm heretic, everything. It's the only program i found that can run true ms-dos "Dos4GW" programs in their natural state, under xp. FULLSCREEN. and works with sound, ipx networking, direct serial, supports cd-roms, mice, and joysticks. can even control how much conventional memory a program will think is free, so you can run the older ms-dos games that need say, 600k conventional. it's a great program.

[The Forgotten One]

Uh, can someone give me a copy of the master levels for Doom2? Someone borrowed mine and never returned it, and I don't think he intended on giving it back.

[DarkWolf]

DosBox is about CPU cycles, you have to up/down cpu cycles in the config until it's right for your machine.

There is truth to this, if you use the default setting even games like Major Stryker will run slow.

[Heidi]

It's not warez if you own the original copy and just can not find it

You're giving out clear instructions on how to get a free copy of the games and the fact that it wouldn't be warez for you (taking your word for it), technically it could to everyone else, still, not my business, just pointing out the facts.

Espically if said company that producded it will not replace your lost install media

Is the word "forever" mentioned somewhere in the box?.

And DosBox is about CPU cycles, you have to up/down cpu cycles in the config until it's right for your machine. That is, until it almost uses 100% cpu usage, but not quite

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7367/noname0cc.png

I have a 3.457ghz P4 and it runs flawlessly, doom2, duke3dm heretic, everything. It's the only program i found that can run true ms-dos "Dos4GW" programs in their natural state, under xp. FULLSCREEN. and works with sound, ipx networking, direct serial, supports cd-roms, mice, and joysticks. can even control how much conventional memory a program will think is free, so you can run the older ms-dos games that need say, 600k conventional. it's a great program.

http://www.vmware.com/products/ws/ = speed.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx = better multimedia support.

Both are lightyears faster than DosBox.

[kithylin]

Neither of those are free, and it's control F-11, and F-12, as the readme for dosbox says. Dosbox runs all of the 3d games fine, without chopping or lagging, no one needs more than that. At least it runs them period, unlike XP, Oh, and it's FREE. >.<

[Heidi]

If it's running slow and you press ctrl+F11, it will go even slower because you would be decreasing cycles, on the other hand, setting more cycles than your CPU can handle will have the same effect as having a low number of them. So it's correct, you're likely to get more speed if they are increased (ctrl+F12) and frames skipped (ctrl+F8).

Running 3d stuff for 486+ in DosBox is a waste of time and not something that everyone can afford (nobody was giving away high-end processors last time I checked out), and considering the currently faster alternatives such XP ports, glide wrappers and virtual machines (the good ones are far less expensive than any 3.4ghz), I see very little reasons not to use them instead, at least for this particular kind of game.

[Planky]

Ergh. This is getting too far off topic.

The fact remains, downloading doom 'free' off the internet or copying it from someone else is illegal. Yes, there is a grey area regarding people who may have owned a copy, but have lost/destroyed/whatevered the original install media and we could debate it till my liver turns ultra violet and sings the smurfs themesong - but this isnt the place to talk about it.