# dRally: a native Death Rally port for Linux and BSD

> dRally is a C and SDL2 project to port Death Rally (1996) to Linux and BSD. Its installation instructions use asset archives extracted from the original game.

- 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/urxp/dRally>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/urxp/dRally/blob/920d85a7f3c3b95abb685bc26b5f6d67a2f4b982/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/drally-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/drally-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/drally-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A C compiler, GNU Make, and SDL2 are required on Linux.
- **Prerequisites:** Original Death Rally game assets are required.
- **Limits:** Multiplayer is unavailable.
- **License:** Licensed under MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/urxp/dRally/blob/920d85a7f3c3b95abb685bc26b5f6d67a2f4b982/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/urxp/dRally/blob/920d85a7f3c3b95abb685bc26b5f6d67a2f4b982/Makefile>

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