Case study

ppengine: a Pole Position remake from arcade ROM analysis

ppengine recreates Atari's Pole Position as a 3D game using logic reverse engineered from the arcade ROMs. Its C source builds a playable client with steering, braking, acceleration and gear changes, while the title screen remains unfinished.

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: 76
Last commit: 2021-04-18
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: Building is documented primarily for Linux with GCC 4.0+, Make, SDL2 development libraries, OpenSceneGraph and Gorilla Audio.
Testing evidence: Windows and macOS have not been tested.
Limits: The title screen is unimplemented.
License: No licence file in the repository.

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BibTeX

@misc{ppengine-case,
  title = {{ppengine: a Pole Position remake from arcade ROM analysis}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/jonathanopalise/ppengine}},
  url = {https://github.com/jonathanopalise/ppengine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ppengine-case/}}
}

Plain text

ppengine: a Pole Position remake from arcade ROM analysis. https://github.com/jonathanopalise/ppengine (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ppengine-case/

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README.md GitHub · jonathanopalise/ppengine · Revision 1a36cc7