![]() ![]() Joined: Location: Maryland, USA, but probably also in someone's mod somewhere Operating System: Windows 10/8.1/8/201x 64-bit Graphics Processor: ATI/AMD with Vulkan Support Sorry to leave all this here so late in development - I know it's probably never going to happen for the multiple tabs, which would rely on the underlying program architecture to be designed around, but it's too late, I've already pressed submit and shot my ideas at a possibly existing developer for a currently WIP launcher. In fact, if the program also saved tab profiles to disk at, oh, say, 3-5 minute intervals, in a temporary fashion for backup that wouldn't interfere with user-saved profiles, I would never need another ZDoom launcher ever again in my life. Sometimes I leave ZDL open for hours only to have my computer restart after a second's power outage and then - whoops! - there goes all my settings because I never closed the program! I hate closing the program too because then I have to go and find it again to open it instead of leaving it in memory for easy access to all my ZDoom needs. On that note, if there was an option to save manually while the program was open, that would be good too. Loading separate profiles from file for this is slower and clunkier, I feel. And this is not counting the love of switching up after completing a map wad or some such! Sometimes it's too easy to start multiple saves and then lose track of all you were playing! Plus, in this way it makes less sense to have multiplayer in its own tab when some tabs could have their own options - I could be playing another PWAD combination with friend one, another with friend two. You know what I think would be really awesome? Everyone wants to create a ZDL-alike, but as far as ZDoom productivity goes, nobody has done a "multi-session" launcher that I feel would be amazing considering we have oh-so-many different gameplay wads and a roughly larger number of map PWADs to play through - imagine Terrorists! + TNT Evilution in one tab, Accessories to Murder + Plutonia in another tab, Guncaster + Heretic in yet another. If you find any bugs, please don't hesitate to tell me, you can use this forum if you have any suggestions, please do tell as well (though not every one will be used), also if some great artist from this community wants to contribute a better icon, it would be great.īloodbat, author of ZDoom Executor (you can look at my other free software projects from my Sourceforge profile). Only Windows binaries are available at the moment. If you want to look at some screenshots take it for a spin and maybe fall in love with it, or get your very own copy of the source code (SVN enabled, too) you can get it here: *Update 1.0.2*: Added the missing games (Chex Quest 1 and 3, Action Doom 2, Harmony and Hacx). No need to have extra libraries cluttering your drive: it works out of the box and requires no external libraries (not even under Linux). It's free! Both as in freedom and as in beer (GPL v.3 License). It should mostly compile and work for platforms other than Windows with minimal or no code changes (the code has been provisioned to account for several cases of Windows exclusive stuff). It's fast to compile and fast to execute (It's written using Lazarus/Free Pascal). Exposes most of ZDoom's options (like controlling resolution from the command line, the idea was gathered from these very forums), as well as exposing everything ZDL does. The program saves your options automatically on exit: no need to reconfigure your IWADs for every profile: they're always accessible after initial configuration from a convenient combo box. What I believe is a saner, prettier interface. ZDoom Executor (zde for short ) features: Well, actually the idea came about after some ZDL stuff annoyed the hell out of me (mostly crashes when loading its own profiles and what I find to be some poor interface design decisions, along with the fact that development seems either dead or really stalled). Why create a new frontend if people seem to be content with ZDL? I've created a new ZDoom frontend called "ZDoom Executor".
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