# 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.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/blob/a2dfd51fcc00d272dc8a17a97ccd6683333ff4ea/README.Strife.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/chocolate-strife-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/chocolate-strife-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/chocolate-strife-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

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

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/blob/a2dfd51fcc00d272dc8a17a97ccd6683333ff4ea/README.Strife.md>
2. <https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/blob/a2dfd51fcc00d272dc8a17a97ccd6683333ff4ea/README.md>

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