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DUNE, REINVENTED

Language: C

The Making of Dune II: The birth of the real-time strategy game | Dec 2022
> But unless you own a ’90s era PC, an Amiga or a 16-bit console, your chances of playing Dune II in its original glory are slim, which is a shame.

Well, except for:

* DosBOX [https://www.dosbox.com/]

* OpenDune [https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE]

* Dune Legacy [https://dunelegacy.sourceforge.net/website/]

* Dune Dynasty [https://dunedynasty.sourceforge.net/]

* Dune2 The Maker [https://dune2themaker.fundynamic.com/]

and possibly some other ways of playing it...

Dune: The Battle for Arrakis – Extended Reference (2003) | Jul 2020
They have an open source version of Dune here: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE

For those who miss the Dune gameplay and don't want to pirate the Genesis ROM.

EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3 | May 2020
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Open RA takes some liberties and so isn't really a good comparision. https://github.com/TheAssemblyArmada and https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE are extremely faithful, and probably why this is happening (CCHyper from TheAssemblyArmada is on the community Council, for example).
GrafX2 – a bitmap paint program inspired by Amiga programs | Jun 2018
Wonderful drawing program. It often seems as though C and SDL are our only hope.

edit: #2 link right now is another C/SDL piece of nostalgia: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE