MS-DOS Video Game Reimplementations

This post features some reimplementations of MS-DOS video games.

List of Reimplementations of MS-DOS Game Engines

List of reimplementations of MS-DOS Video Games featured on this post:

  • ScummVM (SCUMM)
  • Stratagus (WarCraft II, StarCraft)

ScummVM (SCUMM)

ScummVM is a reimplementation of the SCUMM game engine (1987), used on LucasArts games.

Stratagus

Stratagus is a game engine behind the reimplementation of WarCraft II and StarCraft.

WarCraft II was released for MS-DOS, Mac OS in 1995 and Saturn and PlayStation in 1997.

Starcraft was released for Windows in 1998.

List of Reimplementations of MS-DOS Video Games

List of reimplementations of MS-DOS Video Games featured on this post:

  • Commander Genius (Commander Keen)
  • Free in the Dark (Alone in the Dark)
  • OpenXcom (X-COM: UFO Defense)
  • OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe)
  • D2X-XL (Descent 1 & 2)
  • C-Dogs SDL (C-Dogs)

Commander Genius (Commander Keen)

Commander Genius is a reimplementation of the Commander Keen series (1990-1991).

Commander Genius at Commander Keen Wiki

Free in the Dark (Alone in the Dark)

Free in the Dark (FITD) is a reimplementation of the original Alone in the Dark (1992).

It is released under a FOSS GPL-v2.0 license.

Source code repository

OpenXcom

OpenXcom is a reimplementation of X-COM: UFO Defense / UFO Enemy Unknown (1994).

OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe)

OpenTTD is a reimplementation of Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1995).

It is released under a FOSS (free and open-source) GPL-v2.0-only license.

Source code repository

D2X-XL (Descent 1 & 2)

D2X-XL is a reimplementation of Descent (1995) and Descent 2 (1996).

They were first published for MS-DOS.

D2X-XL official website

C-Dogs SDL (C-Dogs)

C-dogs was released in 1997 for MS-DOS. It became open source in 2002.

C-Dogs SDL was a C-dogs reimplementation using the SDL framework.

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