I got permission to release, from Drew Major and Kyle Powell! Here is the source code repository for my Snipes port: https://github.com/Davidebyzero/Snipes [Edited 2016-08-03: SDL / Linux port, and aspect-ratio-corrected TrueType font] Thanks to help from my friend CyberShadow, Snipes can now be …

I used FontForge + Inkscape to do my edits so far :) I noticed it does have a way to do a transform on all selected characters. The tricky thing would be selecting the right characters. I'd have to stretch the characters that look okay stretched, and leave certain others unstretched (ones that have …

DOSBox's debugger was quite helpful in pinpointing and eliminating the logic differences between my Snipes port and the DOS original. However, I found a very annoying bug in it. If a breakpoint is hit, then I press F5 to resume execution and the same breakpoint was supposed to be hit again, it skips …

[Edit: I have released the port. ] I first played Snipes sometime around 1988-1990, when I was 10-12. Snipes was enigmatic to me, having no documentation at all, not even a title screen, and its terse credits, "Snipes (C)Copyright SuperSet Software Corp. Orem, Utah 1982", were only in the executable …