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Diablo devolved - magic behind the 1996 computer game

Language: C++

Diablo 1 for Web Browsers | Aug 2022
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It links to https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution. WHich explains it: Climax Studios was contracted to make a Playstation port. And it ended up being shipped with the debug symbols still in the game executable. The pc version also has a lot of debug information still in the game files. So reversing engineering the source was made a lot easier.
Si78c: Memory-accurate reimplementation of Space Invaders in C | Jan 2022
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> Now imagine the code base of original Diablo.

No need to imagine! https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution

This is >99% binary exact when compiling with the original toolchain.
OpenDiablo2 | Jun 2020
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Devilution is still alive, AFAIK: https://github.com/diasurgical/devilution