# Prince of Persia 2: statically recompiling the DOS game for Windows

> This statically recompiles the DOS executable PRINCE.EXE from Prince of Persia 2 into C and links it with a Windows runtime. Game logic, rendering, the intro, and the music driver stay the original code. VGA, the timer, the keyboard, and Sound Blaster or AdLib are replaced. The launcher is PoP2 Launcher.exe.

- 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/Supermedo/prince-of-persia-2-windows>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/Supermedo/prince-of-persia-2-windows/blob/e2c407fa8409ad891bf78c8e98c3e052dd00869b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pop2-windows/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/pop2-windows/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/pop2-windows/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Clang, llvm-rc, and Python 3. Set POP2_GAMEDIR to the folder that contains PRINCE.EXE, run python recomp/recomp.py recomp/extra_entries.txt, then ./build.sh.
- The README does not name a license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/Supermedo/prince-of-persia-2-windows/blob/e2c407fa8409ad891bf78c8e98c3e052dd00869b/README.md>

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