Based on our record, Doomsday Engine should be more popular than ECWolf. It has been mentiond 2 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
The go-to granddaddy of making it more modern is probably GZDoom. For some reason I don't remember, I didn't get on with it as well for "real" doom, only the big mods. (https://www.zdoom.org) My personal favorite that adds just enough graphical/audio enhancements without fundamentally altering the game, is Doomsday Engine (https://dengine.net/). Source: about 2 years ago
Doomsday Engine is the closest thing you will get to that . Source: about 3 years ago
While not official, people seem to like ECWolf or its mod-frendlier fork LZWolf. Can't help you with finding base files to pull from. Source: almost 2 years ago
GZDoom - ZDoom is a family of enhanced ports of the Doom engine for running on modern operating systems.
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D3wasm - D3wasm is an experiment to port the id Tech 4 engine (aka. “Doom 3 Engine”) to Emscripten / WebAssembly and WebGL, allowing to run games such as Doom 3 inside modern Web Browsers.
Zandronum - Leading the way in newschool multiplayer Doom online.
Freedoom - Freedoom is a WIP a complete free content game based on the Doom engine.
Risen3D - Risen3D is an advanced Doom port by Graham Jackson based on Jaakko Keranen's Doomsday port. Risen3D should be used as a stand alone port as it does not require any of the Doomsday binaries.