# RodLegacy: reimplementing Street Rod and Street Rod 2

> RodLegacy reimplements Street Rod and Street Rod 2 in C++ for modern systems, reading game data from user-supplied Amiga disk images. Its game code covers cars, races, scenes, sound and save files, with optional car-set mixing and several soundtrack sources. The author describes both games as playable while development and bug fixing continue.

- 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/grovdata/RodLegacy>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/grovdata/RodLegacy/blob/08d5730e69524a84f58e0185c49ed75df7c30242/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rodlegacy-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/rodlegacy-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/rodlegacy-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Amiga disk images for at least one of the two games are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Meson and Ninja build the project; Windows, Linux and macOS builds are described.
- **Limits:** Development continues and bugs are expected.
- **License:** GPL-3.0 licence covers the repository's code.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/grovdata/RodLegacy/blob/08d5730e69524a84f58e0185c49ed75df7c30242/README.md>

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