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Re:Decompiling and rewriting a 2003 game from its binary in ... by 1313ed01 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @04:46AM (#46883720)
I only know about this game because it was in some Humble Bundle. Have the Linux version from that. Not sure how old it is. Looks like the screenshot of one of the remastered versions. Remember installing it and playing for a few hours but then forgot about it.

Last Humble Bundle update from 2019, but I can't get it to run on my current Ubuntu. Runs in my Ubuntu 16 QEMU vm, but no audio for some reason.

Pretty much expected level of success for old binary-only Linux games. Can probably be fixed, but usually just playing the Windows version in WINE is easier and plays better.

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Re:Decompiling and rewriting a 2003 game from its binary in ... by banteg on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @07:03PM (#46968916)
the version you had is a 2014 remake, it's quite different from the version i've recreated from 2003. this one only existed as for win32. my version should run on linux, and even if it doesn't, it's all open source, so should be easy to patch and have it work forever.
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