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Ski or Die's Snowball War rebuilt in Rust
The 1990 MS-DOS minigame recreated in Rust and SDL2.
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This is a playable rebuild of Snowball War, the snowball-fight minigame from Electronic Arts' 1990 DOS game Ski or Die, written from scratch in Rust with SDL2. REA analysed the original program and recovered the gameplay rules with evidence. Those were written up as a specification and rebuilt from it. Only this one event is covered, and you supply the original DOS release you own for the assets.
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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: rea-ski-or-die-reconstructionRepository account: tuunanet
Source, the recovered rules and a quick-start guide.