# 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.

- 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/yuv422/cosmo-engine>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/yuv422/cosmo-engine/blob/6fff1a31cf12e33d48b51c56e1880fc20b4e6ceb/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cosmo-engine-cosmic-adventure-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cosmo-engine-cosmic-adventure-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/cosmo-engine-cosmic-adventure-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An original copy of Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure.
- **Prerequisites:** CMake, SDL2 and SDL_mixer for compilation.
- **License:** GPL-2.0.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/yuv422/cosmo-engine/blob/6fff1a31cf12e33d48b51c56e1880fc20b4e6ceb/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/yuv422/cosmo-engine/blob/6fff1a31cf12e33d48b51c56e1880fc20b4e6ceb/CMakeLists.txt>

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