DOS

Final DOOM

Trivia

The Steam download version of the game is listed as Windows 2000/XP/Vista platform because the executables are modified to use a DOSBox variant (v 0.70); additionally the traditional setup.exe is missing.

It is confirmed that neither Valve or id Software contacted the DOSBox project staff and initially the game didn't includes the TXT´s that must be present under the GPL license (so they failed to fulfill 2 points of the GPL license).

Two days after the launch, there was an update that includes COPYING, AUTHORS and THANKS.txt of the DOSBox 0.71.

Contributed by DarkDante (3731) on Aug 08, 2007.

On April 30, 1997, Final Doom was put on the infamous German index by the BPjS.

Note: Indexed products by the BPjS/BPjM are illegal to sell or make available to minors in Germany and it is illegal to advertise for it in any form. But there is absolutely no law forbidding any adult to buy such a product. The only exception is when a game was in addition also confiscated (or put on the so-called "List B" for BPjM games), but this is rather seldom the case.

In this particularly case here, Final Doom was just indexed, but not confiscated.

However, due to the fact that advertisement also means the presence of a product on the shelves of a store, the product will disappear from the public. But it can be bought in supporting stores "under the desk" (per request).

BPjS/BPjM = German Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften/Medien = Federal Examination Office for Youth-Endangering Publications/Media.

Interesting story: as you may or may not know, the psx version of Final Doom lacks Doom 2's secret Wolfenstein 3D levels (it only has 30 maps). Reportedly a kid nagged the consummer support at GT so much about how to get to the levels that in the end they just told him there were no levels and offered him a copy of Mortal Kombat Trilogy if he were to keep the secret. The kid refused and wrote a letter telling about this to VideoGames magazine. Did the kid lie or no? who knows, in the end GT steeped forward and admitted there were no secret levels.

Many people were angry about Id's decision to include Evilution in Final Doom- it was originally going to be released as a freeware expansion onto Doom 2.