Hecks "legacy" all about

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Hecks "legacy" all about

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I see there are two different builds of gzdoom on the downloads page, just wondering what legacy meant
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Re: Hecks "legacy" all about

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Quite literally it's snippets of modern code implanted onto a "legacy" base of GZDoom.

More practically, it's an effort to keep an updated version of GZDoom running on an older renderer base that worked with older systems before the Vulkan prep started to take place.
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Ahh i see, makes sense. Thanks!
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