What was the default keyboard configuration for DOOM?

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David Simmons - 17 Jul 2007 07:20 GMT

Found the Doom Wiki but there was nothing there. I borrowed the
Collector's Edition and it runs beautifully on my system.

However, I can't seem to find the original keyboard configuration that
worked so well for me. My mouse is a USB so the game won't recognize
it.

I seem to recall using WASD and the arrow keys, but it's been a LONG
while since I played the game!

Dave S.

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Roy Carin - 17 Jul 2007 11:27 GMT

> Found the Doom Wiki but there was nothing there. I borrowed the
> Collector's Edition and it runs beautifully on my system.
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>
> Dave S.

I've put some information about the "default" keys here:
http://www.geocities.com/roy_carin_080496/doomkeys.html

The images come from prboom for Linux and the Ultimate Doom game wad.

In prboom, you can configure the keys by going into Options/ Setup/ Key
Bindings. I don't remember if this was an option in the original Doom game.

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Raymond Martineau - 18 Jul 2007 23:08 GMT

>Found the Doom Wiki but there was nothing there. I borrowed the
>Collector's Edition and it runs beautifully on my system.
>
>However, I can't seem to find the original keyboard configuration that
>worked so well for me. My mouse is a USB so the game won't recognize
>it.

That's actually a Doom95 problem - it doesn't have mouse support for
Windows NT/XP. Either use the dos version or a source port.

>I seem to recall using WASD and the arrow keys, but it's been a LONG
>while since I played the game!

Defaults are arrow keys forward/back and turning, '.' and ',' for
strafing. CTRL fires, Shift runs, space uses - you probably want to
configure this in the setup application.

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