# Test Drive III Enhanced: an SDL3 port of the reconstructed racing game

> Test Drive III Enhanced ports a reconstructed Test Drive III: The Passion engine to a native SDL3 program. It keeps a faithful game core while adding smoother high-resolution rendering, longer draw distance, steering changes and a launcher. The program loads the player's original executable and data 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/kylofon/testdrive3-enhanced>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/kylofon/testdrive3-enhanced/blob/a5c2e285baca16893f9d22233632f91b74c55efd/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/test-drive-iii-enhanced-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/test-drive-iii-enhanced-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/test-drive-iii-enhanced-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Original Test Drive III files, including TDIII.EXE or TD3.EXE and the listed DAT files, are required.
- **Prerequisites:** Building requires CMake 3.24+, C11 and SDL3; the launcher also requires C++17 and wxWidgets 3.2.
- **License:** MIT license for the project; the included Nuked-OPL3 component is LGPL 2.1+.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/kylofon/testdrive3-enhanced/blob/a5c2e285baca16893f9d22233632f91b74c55efd/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/kylofon/testdrive3-enhanced/blob/a5c2e285baca16893f9d22233632f91b74c55efd/ENGINE.md>

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