# Test Drive Enhanced: an SDL3 port of the 1987 game

> Test Drive Enhanced ports the 1987 DOS game to SDL3 using the author's C reimplementation of its driving simulation and game flow. Its engine notes link that implementation to reverse-engineering specifications and disassembly of TDEGA.EXE; this version adds higher-resolution road rendering and optional elements from the Amiga release.

- 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/kylofon/testdrive-enhanced>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/kylofon/testdrive-enhanced/blob/fdb7972b5d75578a8849a15d8aef7201b208827e/ENGINE.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/test-drive-enhanced-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/test-drive-enhanced-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/test-drive-enhanced-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The original DOS Test Drive files are required; optional Amiga features also require an Amiga disk image or extracted files.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires CMake 3.24 or later, a C11 compiler, and SDL3.
- **Prerequisites:** The optional launcher requires a C++17 compiler and wxWidgets 3.2.
- **License:** MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/kylofon/testdrive-enhanced/blob/fdb7972b5d75578a8849a15d8aef7201b208827e/ENGINE.md>
2. <https://github.com/kylofon/testdrive-enhanced/blob/fdb7972b5d75578a8849a15d8aef7201b208827e/README.md>

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