# Pinball Fantasies Reassembled: recreating the DOS game engine

> Pinball Fantasies Reassembled recreates the 1993 DOS game engine in Rust using files from an original copy. Its technical notes map the MZ executables, per-table PRG programs, interrupt interfaces, sound drivers and user-data formats. The source includes asset readers, table simulation and tools for dissecting original files.

- 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/wanda-phi/pfr>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/blob/462b8c599af826ca95f1662aebdc13cb60e9f673/TECH.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pinball-fantasies-reassembled-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pinball-fantasies-reassembled-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pinball-fantasies-reassembled-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A Rust toolchain and the listed versions of the original PRG and MOD files are required.
- **Limits:** Other versions of the game files are not supported.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/blob/462b8c599af826ca95f1662aebdc13cb60e9f673/TECH.md>
2. <https://github.com/wanda-phi/pfr/blob/462b8c599af826ca95f1662aebdc13cb60e9f673/README.md>

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