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-PrBoom+ is a Doom source port developed from the original PrBoom project.
+prboom-plus (Doom source port)
-Features uncapped framerate, widescreen aspect ratios, soundfont support,
-variable gamespeed, re-record, walkcam, chasecam, full full mouselook, fov and
-other features along with full compatibility with the original Doom/Doom2
-engines.
+PrBoom+ is a Doom source port developed from the original PrBoom
+project.
-FluidSynth, needed for soundfont support, is an optional dependency.
+Features uncapped framerate, widescreen aspect ratios, soundfont
+support, variable gamespeed, re-record, walkcam, chasecam, full
+mouselook, variable FOV, and other features along with full
+compatibility with the original Doom/Doom2 engines.
-The documentation refers to a directory into which an IWAD file (doom.wad,
-doom2.wad, tnt.wad, plutonia.wad, or the shareware doom1.wad) may be placed.
-The IWAD directory is /usr/share/games/doom.
+The documentation refers to a directory into which an IWAD
+file (doom.wad, doom2.wad, tnt.wad, plutonia.wad, or the
+shareware doom1.wad) may be placed. The IWAD directory is
+/usr/share/games/doom. If you don't have any IWADs, install
+doom_shareware_data to play shareware Doom.
+
+Optional dependencies, autodetected:
+
+fluidsynth - for MIDI soundfont support.
+portmidi - for the PortMIDI backend. Most users won't need this.