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First post, by moog

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While looking for the Death Rally Windows port from 2010, I found this little gemmie: https://github.com/urxp/dRally

From the looks of it, it's a decompilation of the game. Odd that it's licensed under MIT. But it apparently compiles for MS-DOS, Linux and Windows. Has anyone given it a go? It's a bummer they state multiplayer doesn't work... But if you could ask for multiplayer, what'd you do? Here's some of my ideas:
- keep serial, modem and IPX on DOS
- add TCP/IP on every platform, make IPv6 a compile-time feature

Links to builds:
- https://github.com/urxp/dRally/releases/tag/v0.1 for MS-DOS
- https://github.com/urxp/dRally/releases/downl … y_Linux_x64.zip for amd64 Linux
- https://github.com/urxp/dRally/releases/downl … Windows_x64.zip for amd64 Windows

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Reply 1 of 3, by Thandor

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Would love to see multiplayer support extended a bit. I have a knack for the original DOS-version so I'd vote for IPX on DOS but if a modern approach with a Windows version and TCP/IP is easier to implement I'd be more than happy as well 😉.

Back in the day I did play few multiplayer sessions with my brother and friends but since it's quite limited the fun diminished quickly (not to mention I usually won 😜). I'd love to see if multiplayer could be joined with the standard AI ranking. No 9-map limit and just sign up for the races and fill the gaps with AI (i.e. play with 3 people and one computer/AI player). I also remember that money prizes were different in the multiplayer version which led to the fact that the person who won the first race already had a huge advantage over the second race so there is little chance for the other players to win the second race.

I'm not a coder so I can't really help out on the source-code stuff but I'd be more than happy to test and validate 😀.

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Reply 2 of 3, by leileilol

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I tried it once years ago and it kept crashing. It's decompiled from the 2010 windows release (and holy shit that's a mess)

Reminder that Github will default to MIT licensing and is often erroneously applied without licensing literacy, so I wouldn't trust this for any legal endeavors.

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Reply 3 of 3, by moog

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leileilol wrote on Yesterday, 21:58:

I tried it once years ago and it kept crashing. It's decompiled from the 2010 windows release (and holy shit that's a mess)

Reminder that Github will default to MIT licensing and is often erroneously applied without licensing literacy, so I wouldn't trust this for any legal endeavors.

It looks deliberate: https://github.com/urxp/dRally/blob/master/LICENSE#L3

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