However, the color scheme changed between v1.5 and v1.7 (the versions of SETUP.EXE distributed with Doom 1.7a and Doom 1.8). The setup program runs in DOS 80x25 text mode, with a blue color scheme. "Funky" blue (#041441) that was programmed into the setup program. In 2005, Simon "Fraggle" Howard contacted John Carmack, who agreed to relicensing of the source code under the GNU GPL. The source code to SETUP.EXE was released in 1996 by John Carmack, long before the release of the Doom source itself. Romero designed menus using a shareware program called "The Laughing Dog Screen Maker" by Yardbird Software. Later, John Romero rewrote the setup utility using Borland C and replaced Paul's menu system with his own implementation. The original Raptor setup utility was written in Microsoft C by Scott Host using a menu system created by Paul Radek. The setup program appears to have been derived from the setup program written for Raptor: Call of the Shadows early versions even attribute copyright to Raptor developer Cygnus Studios. Later games based on Doom, including Hexen and Strife, also included versions of the setup program. The setup program was included in Doom distributions as a file named "SETUP.EXE". This was necessary because under DOS, programs needed the hardware settings to use to access devices such as the sound card and controllers. The DOS version of Doom ( vanilla Doom) included a setup program to allow the user to configure the game before running it. The color scheme changed between versions. The final v1.7 was included with Doom 1.9.
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