Wolfenstein 3D

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Wolfenstein 3D on PCem

Wolfenstein 3D, written by the ever popular iD software, was a breakaway '3d' looking first person shooter game that defined the 3d shooter genre. Released May 5th 1992 It would take the world by storm. It was released as a shareware title which only included the first level. Users could then mailorder the rest of the game.

Ports

MS-DOS

The MS-DOS version was the best known

Open Source

The source code to wolf3d was relased in June 21, 1995., and was subsequently used in a 32bit port. The following site has information on building Wolf3d from it's original source.