{
  "added_at": "2026-11-09",
  "category": "reconstruction-cases",
  "class": "game",
  "description_en": "Airborne Ranger ports the 1987 DOS game to C by lifting AR.EXE and its TANDYSND.EXE overlay with a masm2c-style translator, then hand-checking the output against the reference binaries. An SDL2 frontend runs with the player's original files, and the repository includes lifted code, generation scripts and tests.",
  "description_zh": "Airborne Ranger 用 masm2c 风格的翻译器将 1987 年 DOS 游戏的 AR.EXE 及 TANDYSND.EXE 覆盖程序提升为 C，再与原版二进制文件人工核对。SDL2 前端读取玩家自己的游戏文件；仓库包含提升后的代码、生成脚本和测试。",
  "entry_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/airborne-ranger-port-case/",
  "entry_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/airborne-ranger-port-case/",
  "evidence_class": 2,
  "evidence_status": "observed",
  "evidence_url": "https://github.com/xor2003/airborn-ranger/blob/d2e7575b1a70e15fe7104274cda8db357085e53f/README.md",
  "group": "cases",
  "id": "airborne-ranger-port-case",
  "json_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/airborne-ranger-port-case/record.json",
  "kind": "case-study",
  "markdown_url": "https://awesomerea.org/resources/airborne-ranger-port-case/index.md",
  "markdown_url_zh": "https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/airborne-ranger-port-case/index.md",
  "name": "Airborne Ranger: lifting a DOS game into a C port",
  "name_zh": "Airborne Ranger：将 DOS 游戏提升为 C 语言移植版",
  "reconstruction_method": "port",
  "record_type": "resource",
  "relationship": "independent-reconstruction",
  "requirement_facets": [
    "prerequisites",
    "prerequisites",
    "limits",
    "license"
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "An original DOS copy of Airborne Ranger is required to run the port.",
    "SDL2 is used for the frontend; documented builds cover Linux, Windows x64 and Android TV.",
    "The WebAssembly workflow is an experimental skeleton.",
    "No licence file in the repository."
  ],
  "requirements_zh": [
    "运行移植版需要原版 DOS 游戏 Airborne Ranger。",
    "前端使用 SDL2；文档列出 Linux、Windows x64 和 Android TV 构建方式。",
    "WebAssembly 工作流程仍是实验性骨架。",
    "仓库中没有许可证文件。"
  ],
  "scope": "unknown",
  "targets": [
    "binary",
    "game"
  ],
  "url": "https://github.com/xor2003/airborn-ranger",
  "verification": "source-reviewed",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06"
}