Doom is a series of sci-fi action/horror games from id software, starting with Doom in 1993, and continuing with Doom 3 and Doom (2016). In Doom, you play as a space marine tasked with defeating the unleashed demonic forces of Hell, using a variety of heavy weapons and your own skill against the invading hordes.
How To Install and Play DOOM 2 on Windows 10
Introduction
The old PC games were always a blast to play back in the DOS and early versions of Windows. The graphics weren’t the greatest but, they were great at the time. In this post we will relive the past and get DOOM 2: Hell on Earth running on Windows 10.
So how are we to achieve this? In this case we are going to use Chocolate-Doom.
Download Chocolate-DOOM
Chocolate-doom supports the following programs.
Doom (including the shareware and registered versions, and the Ultimate Doom expansion pack)
Doom II
Final Doom (TNT:Evilution, and the Plutonia Experiment)
Chex Quest
Heretic
Hexen
Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel (expansion pack)
Strife
It is also possible to play these expansion packs and commercial games, each of which requires one of the above:
The Master Levels for Doom II
Hacx
Open your trusty browser and go to https://www.chocolate-doom.org/wiki/index.php/Chocolate_Doom and download Chocolate-doom. It will be a zip file. Unzip the file and wait.
Install DOOM 2
Now we need to install DOOM2 from your CD.
Copy the extracted Chocolate DOOM contents into the DOOM 2 installation directory.
Starting Up
Now we are ready to play!!! double-click on chocolate-doom.exe and DOOM 2 will start in full screen mode.
If Fullscreen is too ugly then you can change settings by running chocolate-doom-setup.exe.
Select Configure Display and make your selection and save the changes.
Hope this brings back memories and many hours of playing a classic.
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