Case study

open-iw: investigating Inner Worlds' packed game resources

open-iw investigates the packed resources inside the DOS game Inner Worlds 1.2 while working toward a rebuild. Its notes describe the executable's resource header, file-list entries, offsets and alignment uncertainty; a C utility supports extraction experiments.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 8
Last commit: 2017-11-12
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Use the registered retail version 1.2 of Inner Worlds for the documented notes and utilities.
Limits: Resource alignment remains unresolved, limiting extraction of the DOS game files.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{open-iw-inner-worlds-case,
  title = {{open-iw: investigating Inner Worlds' packed game resources}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/TambourineReindeer/open-iw}},
  url = {https://github.com/TambourineReindeer/open-iw},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/open-iw-inner-worlds-case/}}
}

Plain text

open-iw: investigating Inner Worlds' packed game resources. https://github.com/TambourineReindeer/open-iw (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/open-iw-inner-worlds-case/

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Primary sources

utils/reverse-engineering.md GitHub · TambourineReindeer/open-iw · Revision 84436e2
utils/README.md GitHub · TambourineReindeer/open-iw · Revision 84436e2