Carmageddon 2, revisited

This project attempts to document 1998's Carmageddon 2 by writing equivalent C code.

When enough functions have been replaced, it should become possible to not need the retail binary anymore and let the game run on modern non-Windows systems.

Status

Requirements

• Carmageddon 2: this project needs the original game data function
• MSVC 5 SP3

Build requirements

• 32-bit x86 compiler:
  • MSVC 11.0 (Visual Studio 97 SP3) compiler for matching build, or
  • a modern MinGW or MSVC toolchain
• DirectX SDK: we need dinput and dxguid.
  • MinGW provides these libraries out-of-the box
  • MSVC does not ship with a DirectX SDK: this time-period correct version on archive.org works perfect.
• libtiff: this library is used to convert tiff images to BRender pixelmaps

Goals

• Exact same behavior as the original
• Matching binary
• Every single commit should compile and work: this enables git-bisect to search for regressions

Credits

• The DethRace project: Carmageddon 2 is a continuation of Carmageddon 1.