Comment by mindslight

I remember a lot of Apple ][ games using keyboard letters for controls. It bothered me, because having a ][gs I had actual arrow keys.

As for Doom and then Quake, I used the arrow keys and then Del+End for strafing. In Doom you actually went sqrt(2) faster by running diagonally with strafing, and could even outrun rockets (or run ahead of them to where they were going to hit, in big open levels).