Case study
Cosmo-Engine: a replacement engine for Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure
Cosmo-Engine supplies a C engine for playing Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure using a copy of the original game. Its source includes game, actor, map, file, video and audio components, with CMake builds using SDL2 and SDL_mixer.
- Targets
- Game
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C2 code & docs, no demo or download
- Stars
- 66
- Last commit
- 2026-03-23
- Language
- C
- License (GitHub)
- GPL-2.0
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence
- Observed
- Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
- Checked
- 2026-11-09
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: An original copy of Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure.
- Prerequisites: CMake, SDL2 and SDL_mixer for compilation.
- License: GPL-2.0.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{cosmo-engine-cosmic-adventure-case,
title = {{Cosmo-Engine: a replacement engine for Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/yuv422/cosmo-engine}},
url = {https://github.com/yuv422/cosmo-engine},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/cosmo-engine-cosmic-adventure-case/}}
}Plain text
Cosmo-Engine: a replacement engine for Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure. https://github.com/yuv422/cosmo-engine (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/cosmo-engine-cosmic-adventure-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · yuv422/cosmo-engine · Revision 6fff1a3
- CMakeLists.txt GitHub · yuv422/cosmo-engine · Revision 6fff1a3
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