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Dark Colony (1997) as a playable browser clone
A TypeScript remake with the game's file formats recovered by reverse engineering.
Credits
The full story
Open Dark Colony is a playable browser clone of the 1997 real-time strategy game Dark Colony, written in TypeScript. It includes no game assets. It reads the sprites, maps, scenarios, sounds and interface from your own installation at run time, so it looks and sounds exactly like the original. The engine, AI, interface and mission interpreter are new.
The file formats were worked out from the original DC.EXE using REA on Ghidra, and are documented in English. In the online version you point it at your game folder or a ZIP of it.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- Awesome REA list: open-dark-colonyRepository account: edulazaro
Source (README in Spanish), format specs and a link to play in the browser.