Case study

Chocolate Strife: reconstructing Strife from its DOS executable

Chocolate Strife recreates Strife: Quest for the Sigil within Chocolate Doom from analysis of the original DOS executable. Its authors disassembled and decompiled the executable, compared findings with released Doom and Heretic source, and implemented compatible behavior in the port.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 2.5k
Last commit: 2026-10-25
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a download method observed; no demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The reconstruction is described as close to, but not entirely identical to, the original.
GPL-2.0.

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BibTeX

@misc{chocolate-strife-case,
  title = {{Chocolate Strife: reconstructing Strife from its DOS executable}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom}},
  url = {https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/chocolate-strife-case/}}
}

Plain text

Chocolate Strife: reconstructing Strife from its DOS executable. https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/chocolate-strife-case/

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Primary sources

README.Strife.md GitHub · chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom · Revision a2dfd51
README.md GitHub · chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom · Revision a2dfd51