Case study

ZGloom: reimplementing the Amiga game Gloom

ZGloom reimplements the Amiga first-person game Gloom, including Zombie Massacre. Windows builds need the Visual Studio 2013 runtime. Linux builds use SDL2, SDL2_mixer, and libXMP.

Targets: Game
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
Evidence class: C1 partial scope or analysis entry

Stars: 49
Last commit: 2023-01-24
Language: C++

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Demo screenshot from the project's public documentation

Observed: Demo documented; the documentation covers part of the feature set.
Scope: Partial
Checked: 2026-11-09

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Requirements & limits

The original developers released Gloom at earok/GloomAmiga. Place the ZGloom binary in that directory. On Linux, compile with make.
The README does not name a license for ZGloom. It says the licence of the included DeCrunchmania code is unknown.

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BibTeX

@misc{zgloom,
  title = {{ZGloom: reimplementing the Amiga game Gloom}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Swizpig/ZGloom}},
  url = {https://github.com/Swizpig/ZGloom},
  urldate = {2026-11-07},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/zgloom/}}
}

Plain text

ZGloom: reimplementing the Amiga game Gloom. https://github.com/Swizpig/ZGloom (accessed 2026-11-07). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/zgloom/

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README.md GitHub · Swizpig/ZGloom · Revision 8432674