Projects tagged ‘retro’

DOSBox uses SDL to emulate the PC hardware required for running old DOS games. This includes a 386 processor, an S3/Trio video card with some tweaks to allow for older display hardware like the Tandy ... [More] , a Sound Blaster Pro, the PC speaker, Tandy 3-sound, CMS/GameBlaster, Disney Sound Source, and MIDI. DOS emulation is integrated. It is possible to mount local directories as drives inside the emulator. [Less]

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces ... [More] the executables shipped with the game, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed! ScummVM lets you run these adventures: Adventure Soft's Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution's Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep's Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision's Gobliiins and games based on LucasArts' SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. Compatibility with supported games is continually improving, so c [Less]

Scorched3D is a cross-platform 3D remake of the popular 2D artillery game Scorched Earth. Scorched3D can be played against the computer, other players, and remotely across the Internet or LAN.

Exult is an open-source game engine for playing Ultima7 on modern operating systems, using the game's original data files.

Westwood red alert game engine (original .mix files required) This is a rebuild of the (Westwood) red alert game engine (based on FreeCNC and FreeRA). It is a real time strategy game. To play the ... [More] game with this engine you need the original game (mix files). The only game supported is red alert 1 ;) The files of the DEMO also works !!!! get it at : ftp://ftp.westwood.com/pub/redalert/previews/demo/ra95demo.zip [Less]

MESS is a MAME-based project which documents the hardware for a wide variety of (mostly vintage) computers, video game consoles, and calculators through software emulation, as MAME does for arcade ... [More] games. As a nice side effect to this documentation, MESS allows software and games for these hardware platforms to be run on modern PCs. The goal of MESS is total accuracy to the original hardware behaviour, which is achieved through low-level emulation of all hardware components (video chips, CPUs, etc.), the implementations of which are shared across all emulated systems using the generic MAME architecture. [Less]

Openc2e is a cross-platform open-source game engine designed to be compatible with and run the Creatures series of games, including Creatures 1, 2, 3 and Docking Station.

The aim of Adonthell is the creation of a 2D, graphical, single player role playing game and the required engine. Main emphasis of the game lies on good gameplay rather than on realism; it will be a ... [More] well-balanced mixture of fast-paced realtime combat, head-cracking puzzle elements and extensive dialogues. The engine core is written in C++, but highly customizable through the embedded Python interpreter. Engine and game data are strictly separated to allow the creation of completely different RPGs with the same engine. While we work on completing the engine, we will release fully playable demo games from time to time, that make use of the available engine functionality. [Less]

The fully opensource project contains an evolving Role Playing Game framework and game implementations. It is written fully in Java in the tradition of old school RPGs like Wizardry 7 and EOB. ... [More] Features are OpenGL, AI, scripting, turn based combat, commanding a group of characters and more. [Less]

open source MSX emulator that uses a unique emulation model and tries to achieve the highest level of accuracy possible. It is available for POSIX and Microsoft Windows operating systems. It emulates ... [More] a large amount of MSX (related) hardware, including MSXturboR, Moonsound, Sunrise IDE and GFX9000. It comes with all bells and whistles, like debugging, a graphical frontend, scriptable in Tcl, scalers, ... It also comes with CBIOS, a free implementation of a minimal MSX BIOS, allowing to play quite some games without needing copies of original MSX ROMS. It is free according to the Debian Free Software Guidelines, available under the GNU General Public License. [Less]