# Install dsda-doom with Homebrew

Fork of prboom+ with a focus on speedrunning. Version 0.29.4 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-29.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:dsda-doom
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dsda-doom
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:dsda-doom
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.29.4
- **Source summary:** Fork of prboom+ with a focus on speedrunning
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-29T21:26:31Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- dsda-doom (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.29.4
## Project history and usage

DSDA-Doom is a Doom-family source port built for demo compatibility, speedrunning, TAS work, and modern map-standard support. It presents itself as a successor to PrBoom+ and has become one of the practical ports used around the Doom Speed Demos Archive ecosystem.

### Project history

The project follows the PrBoom+ line rather than starting as a general-purpose new engine. Its README describes it as a successor of PrBoom+ and emphasizes speedrunning-oriented strictness, advanced TAS tools, rewind, debugging features, and compatibility work for Heretic, Hexen, MBF21, UDMF, MAPINFO, and Doom-in-Hexen.

The README records a maintainer handoff pattern: @kraflab maintained the project from 2020 through 2024, and @fabiangreffrath, @rfomin, and @Pedro-Beirao are listed as maintainers from 2024 onward. Release notes in the v0.28 and v0.29 series show the port continuing to add game-format support, demo-related fixes, launcher/build improvements, macOS/Windows packaging, and speedrunning-specific behavior fixes.

### Adoption history

Adoption is concentrated in the classic Doom speedrunning and source-port communities rather than in mainstream game distribution. Its package presence in Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Nix, and zypper makes it easy for runners, demo viewers, and tool-assisted-speedrun authors to install the same port across platforms.

Homebrew's formula listed 431 installs over the preceding 365 days when checked for this enrichment batch, a modest but real signal for a specialist source port.

### How it is used

Users run DSDA-Doom to play, record, validate, inspect, and replay Doom-engine demos with stricter compatibility expectations than a casual enhanced port. The README's feature list is especially relevant to speedrunners: strict mode, TAS tools, rewind, debugging aids, and support for modern community mapping standards.

### Why package nerds care

For package nerds, DSDA-Doom is interesting because it packages a living fork in a long lineage of Doom ports: Doom, Boom, MBF, PrBoom+, PrBoom+ UM, and then DSDA-Doom. Its value depends as much on reproducibility and demo sync as on end-user features, so distribution packages are part of preserving a shared competitive/tooling environment.

### Timeline

- 2020: The README's maintainer list marks @kraflab's DSDA-Doom maintainership as beginning in this period.
- 2024: The README lists @fabiangreffrath, @rfomin, and @Pedro-Beirao as maintainers from 2024 onward.
- 2024-08-10: v0.28.0 was published with a large feature release including freelook rewrite work, UDMF additions, quality-of-life changes, and demo/tooling updates.
- 2025-07-03: v0.29.3 was published with packaged Linux, macOS, and Windows release assets.
- 2025-09-26: v0.29.4 was published and is the Homebrew stable version recorded for this batch.

### Related projects

- PrBoom+ is the direct predecessor named by the README.
- The Doom Speed Demos Archive is the community context implied by the DSDA name and by the port's speedrunning focus.
- MBF21 and UMAPINFO are related Doom mapping/demo standards linked from the README.
- Pedro-Beirao's dsda-launcher is a companion launcher linked by the README.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom#readme>
- <https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom/releases/tag/v0.28.0>
- <https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom/releases/tag/v0.29.3>
- <https://github.com/kraflab/dsda-doom/releases/tag/v0.29.4>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dsda-doom>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/dsda-doom.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/dsda-doom.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation