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Dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game "Carmageddon" (2023)
Reverse engineering the 1997 game "Carmageddon". Contribute to dethrace-labs/dethrace development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dethrace is an attempt to learn how the 1997 driving/mayhem game Carmageddon works behind the scenes and rebuild it to run natively on modern systems. Watcom debug symbols for an earlier internal build were discovered named DETHRSC.SYM on the Carmageddon Splat Pack expansion CD release. CrayzKirk from the Carmageddon community picked it up and did a lot of painstaking work manually matching up many functions and data structures in the DOS executable to the debugging symbols.
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