3DEL: Source & Doom/Wolfenstein

3D Engines List
Source & Doom/Wolfenstein

This list contains 47 Doom/Wolfenstein engines with source code.

12.05.2000 KABOOM QBasic 3D Engine 12.05.2000

The KB3D is a simple wolfenstein type engine for DOS written in QBasic from Dieter Marfurt ( dietermarfurt@angelfire.com )

Texturemapped othrogonal walls
Ceiling and floor mapping
Sprite objects with mask
Moving enemies
Soundblaster support
Support for GIF textures
QBasic source

A screenshot and the package with mapeditor, demogame and source can be found on the Kaboom Homepage.

27.04.2000 Castle Raycasting Engine 27.04.2000

The CRE is a very simple doomlike raycasting engine for DOS from Illco ( eelco@cheerful.com )

Texturemapped othrogonal walls
Support for PCX textures
C/ASM source

The source can be found under Downloads on Illco's Homepage.

04.04.2000 Java Maze 17.09.1999

Java Maze is a Java 3D engine from by Jonathan Thomas ( jht2000@hotmail.com ).

Unshaded orthogonal texture mapped walls with same height
Texturemapped floor
Sprites
Optimized java code

More information, a screenshot, the applet and the source can be found on the Java Maze Homepage.

09.02.2000 BOOM 2 09.02.2000

BOOM 2 (followup to BOOM 3D) is a 3D engine for Windows from Ivailo Belchev ( ivob@geocities.com ).

Non orthogonal walls
Floor and ceiling texture mapping
Looking up and down
2D sprites
No lighting, shading or depthcueing
Support for Direct3D and software rendering
Map editor
C++ / ASM source

More information, screenshots, the demo and source can be found on the BOOM 2 Engine Homepage.

02.02.2000 REX3D 17.11.1998

REX3D is a ray-casting 3d engine for DOS from Andreas Christian Seidel ( REX3D@acs-home.de ).

Non orthogonal walls with different height
Sector-based level-design
Sector-dependent lighting (simple, pulse- and random-light)
Texuremapped floor and ceiling
Translucency for objects and walls
Sky mapping
Opening and closing doors
Looking up and down
Jumping
Automap
Moving floors
Gliding against walls
Wall-objects
Elevators
Switches
Sprites (stationary and moving objects like shots, enemies)
Animated textures for walls, objects, ceilings and floors
Floor- and ceiling-tiles with variable dimensions
Ceiling walls
Destroyable walls and objects
Plugin-weapons
Stereo sound system, abient sounds
C source using the DJGPP 2.01 Compiler from DJ Delorie

More information and a playable demo and the source can be found on the ACS Homepage.

18.10.1999 DDJ: RayCast 18.01.1996

RayCast is a sample wolfenstein engine by Mark Seminatore presented in Dr. Dobb's Journal July 1994 .

Rectangular walls with the same height.
No floor/ceiling mapping.
C / ASM source.

The source can be found on ftp.ddj.com .

20.07.1999 Johan Lindfors Java Raycaster 20.07.1999

JLJR is a simple java raycaster from Johan Lindfors ( johanl@microsoft.com )

No texture mapping
Orthogonal walls with same height
Depth cueing
Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0 source

The applet and source can be found on the Johan Lindfors Java Raycaster Homepage .

21.05.1999 BugWorld 3D 12.01.1999

BugWorld 3D is a 3D raycasting engine from Kais Dukes of Majestic-12 Games. (majestictwelve@postmaster.co.uk).

Texturemapped floor and ceiling
Rectangular walls with the same height
Textured sky with 360 degree rotation
Jumping, crouching and object collision.
Borland Turbo C source code with in-line assembly and DJGPP/ALLEGRO Version with source code

The full source code, screenshots and executables can be found on the Majestic-12 Games website.

13.04.1999 WinHeretic/GL-Heretic 13.04.1999

WinHeretic and GL-Heretic are ports of the orginal Heretic (released by Raven Software) to Windows and OpenGL from Michael Ryssen ( mryssen@club-internet.fr ) aka 'Kokak'.

Heretic is based on the Doom engine from ID-Software
Sound support using MIDAS
The WinHeretic port uses WindowsGDI
Non-othogonal walls with different height
Floor or ceiling mapping
Sector lighting and distance cueing
Looking up/down is done via shearing in Y
3D sprites
Support for Microsoft Visual C V4.0 and V5.0

More information, the source and binary can be found on the WinHeretic/GL-Heretic Homepage.

09.04.1999 BSP 15.08.1997

BSP is a doom level viewer for PCs from Ivailo Belchev (ivob@geocities.com ) .

Non orthogonal walls.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Depthcueing.
C++ / ASM source.

The demo and source can be found on the Homepage of Ivailo Belchev .
Paul Toth has made two pascal versions of the BSP engine (for Delphi 2+ and BP7) that can be found on the Mysoft Homepage.

13.01.1999 Hexen and Heretic 13.01.1999

Raven Software released the original sourcecode to their games Hexen and Heretic.

Heretic is based on the Doom engine from ID-Software
The DMX sound library is not included due to licensing problems. The source will not link until the sound-calls are replaced.
Non-othogonal walls with different height
Floor or ceiling mapping
Sector lighting and distance cueing
Looking up/down is done via shearing in Y
3D sprites

The source can be found on the Hexen and Heretic Source Homepage.

11.01.1999 WinDoom/glDoom 11.11.1998

WinDoom and glDoom are enhanced ports of the Linux version of DOOM (released by ID Software on December 23, 1997) to Windows 95 and OpenGL from Bruce Lewis ( brucel@abraxis.com ).

WinDoom: Support for DirectX5 (DirectDraw)
glDoom: Support for OpenGL hardware rendering.
Network support.
Bugfixes.

More information, screenshots and the source and executable for WinDoom and OpenGL Doom can be found on the WinDoom/glDoom Homepage .

15.12.1998 Ray 26.03.1996

Ray is a wolfenstein engine by Brad Broerman (bbroer@one.net).

Rectangular walls with the same height.
Floor and ceiling mapping.
Depth cueing.
Lighting and fog.
Animations.
Several door types.
Translucensy.
Sprites.
C / ASM source.

The source can be found via the Homepage of Brad Broenman.

27.10.1998 Lab3D 27.10.1998

Lab is a Wolfenstein engine for PCs from Alexei Frounze ( alexfru@chat.ru ).

Texturemapped floor and ceiling.
Opening and closing doors.
Sprites.
Borland Pascal 7.0 and Turbo Assembler 3 source.

The demo and source can be found via the Homepage of Alexei Frounze.

17.09.1998 DUMB 08.09.1997

DUMB is an enhanced doom engine for Linux from Josh Parsons ( josh@coombs.anu.edu.au ).

Non orthogonal walls with different height.
Floor and ceiling mapping.
Looking up/down.
Support for 8, 16 and 32 bit color.
Support for DOOM WAD files.
Level editor.

More information, screenshots, the source and executables can be found on the DUMP Homepage.

13.08.1998 Outlaw Triad Raycaster 22.07.1998

OTR is a simple Wolfenstein-type raycasting engine for PCs by Jeroen Commandeur ( comma400@tem.nhl.nl ) aka 'Vulture/Outlaw Triad'.

Orthogonal walls with same height.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Depth cueing.
Transparent walls.
Animated doors.
Turbo Pascal 7.0 source with inline assembler.

More information, a demo and the source can be found on Outlaw Triad Raycaster Homepage.

22.07.1998 WolfEnstein 3D 22.07.1998

WE is a simple Wolfenstein-type raycasting engine for PCs from Paul Toth ( tothpaul@mygale.org ).

Non orthogonal walls with variable height.
Wall and floor texture mapping.
Turbo Pascal 7.0 source with inline assembler.

More information, a screenshot and the source can be found via the Homepage of Paul Toth.

22.07.1998 Rot3D 22.07.1998

Rot3D is a simple Wolfenstein-type raycasting engine for Amiga computers from Jason Freund ( freund@cis.uab.edu ).

Non orthogonal walls with same height.
Depth cueing.
Moving walls (like doors, pushed walls).
C/ASM source.

More information, a screenshot and the source can be found on the Rot3D Homepage.

31.03.1998 3D Ray-Caster 31.03.1998

3DRC is ray-casting wolfenstein engine for DOS computers from Gabor Nagy ( gabor@jps.net ).

Orthogonal walls with same height.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Depth-cueing.
Wall reflections on the floor.
Sprites.
32-bit protected mode.
C++ source (DJGPP/Borland C++).

More information, screenshots, the source and binarie can be found on the 3D Ray-Caster Homepage.

30.03.1998 PS-Ray 30.03.1998

PS-Ray is a simple ray-casting wolfenstein engine for DOS computers from Peter Svahn ( triax@mail.bip.net ).

Orthogonal walls with same height.
No floor or ceiling texture mapping.
No depth-cueing.
Pascal / ASM source.

More information and the source can be found on the Homepage of Peter Svahn.

09.02.1998 DosDoom 08.01.1998

DosDoom is an enhanced DOS port of the Linunx version of DOOM (released by ID Software on December 23, 1997) by Chi Hoang (cyhoang@acs.ucalgary.ca).

Support for SVGA (up to 1024x768)
HiColor support.
Bugfixes and code cleanup.

More information and the source can be found on the DosDoom Homepage .

09.01.1998 BOOM 3D 21.07.1997

B3D is a 3D engine for PCs from Emil Dochevsky ( zajo@geocities.com ) and Ivailo Belchev ( ivob@geocities.com ).

Non orthogonal walls.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
Looking up and down.
BOOM can render any geometry that consists of vertical walls and horizontal floors - not only rooms above rooms.
2D sprites.
No lighting, shading or depthcueing yet.
SVGA support.
C++ / ASM source.

More information, screenshots, the demo and source can be found on the BOOM 3D Engine Homepage.

27.12.1997 Doom 27.12.1997

ID Software released the original sourcecode to DOOM.

ASM/C.
Non-othogonal walls with different height.
Floor or ceiling mapping.
Sector lighting and distance cueing.
3D sprites.
Source release for linux.

The source is available at ftp.idsoftware.com .

09.09.1997 Virtual Presence Engine 01.01.1995

The VPE from Alexey Goloshubin (alexey@ii.uib.no) supports only 386+ PCs.

Non-orthogonal walls, variable level floors/ceilings.
3D regions, rooms above other rooms.
Moving walls / structures for doors and elevators.
Looking up / down.
Transparent and translucent walls / objects.
Multiple viewports, a camera can also render into a wall texture (TV effect).
Collision detection.
Frame speed adjustment.
Texture caching.
SVGA support and WinG and DirectX support.
Sound and Music support.

More information, screenshots, demos and the full source can be found via the Homepage of Alexey Goloshubin.
A port to DJGPP using the Allegro game library can be found on Phil Frisbie's Programming Page.

15.08.1997 WWD (Link Problems !) 13.03.1997

WWD is doom engine for PCs by Marius Schilder ( marius@digicash.com ).

Non orthogonal walls.
Variable height walls.
Sky texture mapping.
Depth cueing.
2D BSP rendering.
Scaled 2D sprite drawing.
Transparent walls.
Elevators.
Changing light levels.
DirectX support for Windows 95.
Java programmable object behaviour (external .class files loaded, uses SUN's JDK).
Collision detection: objects to world, objects to objects.
Java,C/C++/ASM source.
Watcom DOS minimal version.

The source and demo can be found on the Homepage of Marius.

06.06.1997 Pfhorte 31.10.1996

Pfhorte is a map editor for the Marathon game with integrated 3D viewer for Macintosh computers from Steve Israelson (steve_israelson@mindlink.net)

Non orthogonal walls.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping with MIP-mapping.
Translucent textures.
Depth cueing.
Map editor available.

Some more information, screenshots and documentation, the source and binaries can be found on the Pfhorte Homepage.

01.04.1997 Baltimore 01.04.1997

Baltimore is a portable doom engine by Song Li (sli2@gl.umbc.edu).

Orthogonal, texturemapped, variable height walls.
Floor, ceiling and sky texture mapping.
No shading yet.
Simple collision detection, no sliding on walls yet.
Stairs and elevators.
Support for Windows 95/NT and for X11-Windows (binaries are available for Irix, Solaris, Aix and Linux).
C++ source.

The source and binaries can be found on the Baltimore Homepage.

03.03.1997 Beyond 3D (Link Problems!) 03.03.1997

B3D is a simple wolfenstein engine in QBasic for PCs from 'Dragonsky' (sfg@cland.net).

Unlit, orthogonal walls.
Simple line texture mapping.
Sound support.
Joystick support.
QBasic source.

More information and the source on the Beyond 3D Homepage.

10.02.1997 3D Engine 10.02.1997

3D Engine is a 3D game engine for Macintosh computers from Steve Israelson (steve_israelson@mindlink.net)

Non orthogonal walls.
256x256 textures with MIP-mapping.
Moving platforms.
Dynamic lighting.
Depth cueing.
Sprites.
Map editor available.

More information and the source can be found on the 3D Engine Homepage.

27.12.1996 Fear 15.07.1996

Fear is a doom engine from Gyro Gearloose ( gyro@blarg.net ).

Non orthogonal walls.
Floor and ceiling texture mapping.
No depth cueing or fogging.
2D BSP support.
Support for DOOM WAD files.
DOS and Macintosh suport.

The demo,source and some more pictures can be found on the File Area of Gyro Gearloose.

09.09.1996 WebView 3D 25.09.1995

WV is doom style 3d engine from Philip Stephens ( philip@galaxy.bocaraton.ibm.com).

X11-Windows support for Solaris, SunOS, BSDI, AIX and Linux. HiColor (16 bit) support for DOS.
Variable window size.
Non-orthogonal walls, texturemapped floor and ceiling.
Regions can have different light levels.
Depth cueing.
Dithered lighting and light cueing.
Backdrop images.
BSP rendering.
Collision detection.
8 sided sprites.
Networking support and network server. World Wide Web support.
3D chat function.
C source with special adaptions for Intel-based machines.
GIF and JPG texture support.
WT- and WORLD-file to BSP converter.
Real-time physics.

The source and more information can be found on the WebView3D Development Page.

09.09.1996 Phantom's Cyberspace 04.09.1995

PCS is a 3d engine for PCs from Jacco Bikker (aka 'The Phantom') ( Jacco.Bikker@QuestIntl.Com )

Non rectangular walls, round corners.
Floor/ceiling mapping.
Sliding doors, rising blocks.
Depth cueing.
Pascal source with dutch comments.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the Phantom's Cyberspace Readme.

23.07.1996 Bad Mood 23.07.1996

BM is a doom engine for the Atari Falcon 030 from Bertrand Le Roy (bleroy@ccr.jussieu.fr) , Laurent Sallafranque (sallafra@col.bsf.alcatel.fr) and Johan Klockars (d8klojo@dtek.chalmers.se).

16-bit truecoloe graphics.
Supports doom, doom II and heretic PWAD and IWAD files.
Aplha-channeld wall textures.
Floor and ceiling mapping.
Depthcueing and fogging.
Lightsourcing.
Sky texture mapping.
Collission detection, advanced version of BSP & occlusion algorithms for speed.
LRU graphics cache for high speed & low ram requirements.
Variable x & y detail settings.
Variable viewport size up to 320x240.
C source.

The source and executable can be found on the Bad Mood homepage.

15.07.1996 Simplicity 15.07.1996

Simplicity is a doom engine from Richard Temps ( psystorm@bbs.ax.com, t_rtemps@qualcomm.com).

Raycasting engine based on 'Gardens of Imagination'.
Orthogonal walls with variable height.
Floor and ceiling mapping.
Depthcueing and fogging.
Lightsourcing.

The source and executable can be found on www.ax.com.

21.03.1996 Demostuff 21.03.1996

DS is a wolfenstein engine for PCs from Bjarke Viksoe (bjarke.viksoe@capacity.dk).

Rectangular walls, all with the same height.
Floor/ceiling mapping.
Depth cueing.
Pascal/Asm source.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the Demostuff Readme.

21.03.1996 SJS - WOLF 21.03.1996

SW is a wolfenstein engine for PCs from Steven Streeting (sinbad@itl.net).

Rectangular walls, all with the same height.
Floor mapping.
Depth cueing.
C/Asm source.

The source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the SJS-WOLF Readme.

11.03.1996 RayDeal 06.03.1996

RD is a doom engine combined with voxel landscape graphics from Matt Howard (weirdo@primenet.com).

Non-orthogonal walls.
Variable level floors/ceilings.
Sector lighting.
Preshaded interpolated voxel heightfield for outdoor scenes.
Animated 2D sprites.
Collision detection.
C / ASM source.

The full source and more information can be found on the RayDeal Homepage

23.11.1995 Final 01.01.1995

Final is the final project of Peter Mattis (petm@soda.csua.berkeley.edu). The engine is written in portable ANSI C and was tested with a Apple Macintosh and X11-Windows on HP's and Sun SparcStation.

Gouraud shading and depth shading.
Collision detection between objects and walls.
Support for true 3D objects instead of sprites.
Support for 8 and 24 Bits.

More info, the source and textures can be found on the Homepage of Peter Mattis or in the Final Readme .

20.09.1995 Learning Windows(tm) Programming Using Virtual Reality 01.01.1995

LWPUVR is a book (ISBN: 0-12-737842-1) from Christopher D. Watkins (cwatkins@algorithm.com) and Russell J Berube that contains the source for a 4D doom-style engine under Windows. The engine also supports anaglyph 3-D glasses.
More info on the Algorithm's Homepage page.

04.09.1995 WolfDoom 01.01.1995

Wolfdoom is a 3d graphics engine for PCs by Mike Dussault (mdussault@aol.com).

Fixed wall height
Sector lighting and depthcueing
Non rectangular walls, curved walls
Sky texture mapping (no floor mapping)

A demo can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi , the source is also found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the Wolfdoom Readme.

04.09.1995 Cave Dweller 04.09.1995

CD is a 3d wolfenstein engine for PCs by Lee Koloszyc (jpage@crow.cybercomm.net).

Rectangular walls, no floor/ceiling mapping.
Sound output.
Turbo Pascal source.

The soure can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi . More info in the Cave Readme.

31.08.1995 Wolfenstein 31.08.1995

ID Software released the original sourcecode to Castle Wolfenstein.

ASM/C.
Othogonal walls.
No floor or ceiling mapping.

The source is available at x2ftp.oulu.fi .

31.08.1995 WT 01.01.1995

Supports X11-Windows, Linux, MacOS, OS/2, DOS, Amiga
TCL interface
Extension with collision detection

The source and some extensions can be found at the WT ftp site magoo.uwsuper.edu or at ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de (wt-05 source only). More info in the WT Readme.
The MacWT version can be found on ftp.circa.ufl.edu or via the Homepage of William Hayden.

31.08.1995 ACK 01.01.1995

The ACK (Animation Construction Kit) by Lary Myers supports only 386+ PCs.

Rectangular walls, all with the same height
Sprite objects
C and ASM

The full source is located on x2ftp.oulu.fi .
The book "Amazing 3-D Games - Adventure Set" (ISBN: 1-883577-15-2) contains a CD-ROM with an advanced version of the ACK engine (floor and ceiling texture mapping, WinG-support, better optimization).
There is also an ACK for Windows version by J.Lundy that supports WinG output, midi and wave sounds. More info in the ACK for Windows Readme.

27.06.1995 Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus 27.06.1995

TGPP is a book (ISBN: 0-672-30507-0) of LaMothe and Ratcliff that contains the source for a wolfenstein engine in C++/ASM.

Floor and ceiling mapping.
Depthcueing.
Rectangular walls.

13.06.1995 Gardens of Imagination 13.06.1995

GOI is a book (ISBN: 1-878739-59-X) from Christopher Lampton that contains source for a 4D wolfenstein engine in C/C++/ASM.

Floor and ceiling mapping.
Depthcueing and fogging.
Lightsourcing.
Heightmapping.
Rectangular walls.

01.01.1995 Labyrinth 3D 01.01.1995

L3D is a 3d graphics engine for PCs by Kimmo Fredriksson ( Kimmo.Fredriksson@Helsinki.FI).

Fast Wolfenstein engine
Pascal (with finnish comments)

The full source can be found on x2ftp.oulu.fi .

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