PrBoom+ is a source port of doom. It does not run the original doom code from id software, but re-implements a superset of the features, while still staying true to the original aesthetics of doom.

It's not the only way of playing doom on your mac, and its not even the easiest way

There are multiple different ways to run doom:

• You can install and play crispy-doom (here)

• Or you can use the PrBoom libretro core inside of retroarch

• You can install and play GZDoom

This source-port seems to be the most faithful to the original aesthetics of doom and is widely favoured by the doom community

I couldn't find a proper guide on how to get it running on a mac, so here we go!

One or more of:

• DOOM.WAD :: Full WADfiles from a doom 1 installation

• DOOM2.WAD :: Full WADfiles from a doom 2 installation

• DOOM1.WAD :: The shareware version of doom 1

Here's a good guide on extracting these files if you don't already have them

You can also just find them on Archive.org

Install brew if you don't already have it, as we will use it in later steps:

Fire up your terminal and run:

I used some instructions from the following links to gather a list of dependencies to install:

• https://github.com/Ratintosh/prboom-plus

• https://gist.github.com/AlexanderRevo/da5e4b2a4d731ff87a69da8d6a1c2865

Wait 'til brew chugs through all of those and move onto the next step

Here is a link to the repo we'll be using:

• https://github.com/coelckers/prboom-plus

Open your terminal and run the following:

This will pull the project source files

cd into the newly created directory, then into the prboom2 folder

I followed the 'Basic Starting Point' documentation on the cmake site

Here are the steps I took to build:

This should result in a build folder that looks like this:

We can now move on and get our WAD files in the right place for our launcher to see

Get one or more of the following files:

• DOOM.WAD

• DOOM2.WAD

Also, grab prboom-plus.wad from the build directory we made earlier

Place the mentioned files in:

• ~/Library/Application\ Support/PrBoom-Plus

This step is optional

On first run, the game creates prboom-plus.cfg in the same directory where your WAD files are stored

• You can configure this file yourself, but I cannot find documentation on how to set this stuff

One good option is to move the default config somewhere else and use Decino's config:

• http://decino.nl/doom/prboom-plus.cfg

• Here's a good example of what it looks like

Head back to the build directory

There you'll notice a Launcher.app

It built us a nice Apple Silicon application

Use it as you would any other: you can transfer it to /Applications or just keep it in build

Double click the launcher and hit Launch

Happy gibbing!