# Heroes of Jin Yong: reimplementing the DOS game

> This reimplements the DOS game 金庸群侠传 (The Legend of Jin Yong Heroes). The program is hojy.exe. With -DBUILD_TOOLS=ON, makedata takes the original game directory, a target directory, and a font file, then writes data, config.toml, and the merged map pictures. SDL2 is zlib-licensed. libADLMIDI and zita-resampler are GPLv3. soxr is LGPLv2.1.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/soarqin/HeroesOfJinYong>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/soarqin/HeroesOfJinYong/blob/6ace86bc9f74c5e54892e92b1ad5045094f6f389/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/heroes-of-jinyong/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/heroes-of-jinyong/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/heroes-of-jinyong/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- CMake and GCC 8 or newer, Clang 7 or newer, or MSVC 2019 or newer. Clone with --recurse-submodules.
- License: GPLv3.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/soarqin/HeroesOfJinYong/blob/6ace86bc9f74c5e54892e92b1ad5045094f6f389/README.md>

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