Software preservation01
A 2002 game engine, rebuilt for modern platforms
A Direct3D 7 engine from 2002. We rebuilt it clean-room, and one C codebase runs on Linux, 64-bit Windows, and the browser.
The machine still works.
The software should too.
An independent studio for reverse engineering and software preservation. We recover undocumented formats and rebuild old software clean-room, and publish the evidence.
01Work
Two projects, both checkable.
Format recovery02
Models sealed in an undocumented binary format
We measured the structure from the files, validated it against every shipped file of two games, and published it.
02Method
Measurement, not assumption.
rebuilt system → original
We compare a rebuilt system against the original until the outputs match.
recovered format → every file
We don't call a format solved until every file in the set opens.
Specification, parser and test results are published at git.exentt.com. More in the Workshop.
03Contact