Case study

OpenDUNE: a native recreation of Dune II

OpenDUNE recreates Dune II in ANSI C for desktop systems and Atari TOS. Desktop builds use SDL or SDL2; the game reads original Dune II 1.07 data files, including dune2.exe, from a user-provided data directory.

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: 1.7k
Last commit: 2026-09-30
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-2.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Original Dune II 1.07 data files, including dune2.exe, must be placed in data/.
Prerequisites: The source uses SDL or SDL2; Linux and FreeBSD users need LibSDL installed.
Limits: The project documents a sound-output issue that can block the house selection screen.
License: GPL-2.0 license.

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BibTeX

@misc{opendune-case,
  title = {{OpenDUNE: a native recreation of Dune II}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE}},
  url = {https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/opendune-case/}}
}

Plain text

OpenDUNE: a native recreation of Dune II. https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/opendune-case/

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README.txt GitHub · OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE · Revision ebea79a