Case study

OpenSWOS: rebuilding Sensible World of Soccer in C

OpenSWOS rebuilds Sensible World of Soccer in C from reverse engineering of the Amiga game and runs it across desktop, mobile and Amiga platforms. Its setup creates the required graphics, music and team data from the user's own game copy, and the port adds online multiplayer and widescreen display.

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: 75
Last commit: 2026-11-10
Language: C
License (GitHub): GPL-3.0

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

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

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Requires the user's own copy of Sensible World of Soccer to prepare game data.
Prerequisites: The Amiga build requires both PC and Amiga game copies.
License: OpenSWOS-authored source is GPL-3.0-or-later; third-party components retain their own licenses.

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BibTeX

@misc{openswos-case,
  title = {{OpenSWOS: rebuilding Sensible World of Soccer in C}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/benbaker76/OpenSWOS}},
  url = {https://github.com/benbaker76/OpenSWOS},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/openswos-case/}}
}

Plain text

OpenSWOS: rebuilding Sensible World of Soccer in C. https://github.com/benbaker76/OpenSWOS (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/openswos-case/

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README.md GitHub · benbaker76/OpenSWOS · Revision 8fb768e
LICENSE GitHub · benbaker76/OpenSWOS · Revision 8fb768e