SPspider-mario·Sep 29, 2026
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NagyD / SDLPoP
SDLPoP
An open-source port of Prince of Persia, based on the disassembly of the DOS version.
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An open-source port of Prince of Persia, based on the disassembly of the DOS version.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesThis is cool, but what's the advantage of this vs just playing in DOSBox? Usually ports like this add a bunch of QoL features (like save states, bug fixes etc). Take the port of Prince of Persia for example, has a bunch of nice QoL features whilst not straying from the original: https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP
In Show HN: SkyRoads (1993) – the DOS classic, ported natively to macOS and LinuxI can also make a port of Prince of Persia, and faster than a LLM:
https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP
In The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with ClaudeThis is great and I also enjoy https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP where my favourite feature is the ability to take a screenshot of the whole level... which usually fits well within my 4K display.
Oh, and playing at 3840x1200 means that every original 320x200 pixel is ... 144 pixels!
In Prince of Persia in JavaScriptI think its both, opl music and sample based effects.
https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/blob/8a07f11bd5952b5e1b9558c...
In Prince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassemblyPrince of Persia open-source port based on the DOS version disassembly
247 points · Open discussion> 2021/10/24 FINAL release
N.B. There is still no native (or at least SDL) port for Symbian.[0]
And all ZX-Spectrum emulators for Symbian are abandoned/deprecated.[1,2,3]
The only person who maybe could still port PoP (or at least SDLPoP 1.14[4]) for Symbian is 'Another Guest'[5,6] from RetroGuru Team[7,8]
[0] https://www.popuw.com/devices.html
[1] http://fms.komkon.org/EmuSymbian/
[2] https://groups.google.com/g/emul8/c/bqFlcF_-r5A/m/HxhAvaLDVi...
[3] https://github.com/djdron/UnrealSpeccyP/tree/master/platform...
[4] https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP/issues/59
[5] http://anotherguest.blogspot.com/
[6] http://anotherguest.se/
[7] https://twitter.com/RGgamedev/status/1285225637842690048
[8] https://titter.com/RGgamedev/status/1361372210489942016
In Prince of Persia has been released for the Atari XL/XEAsk HN: Reverse engineering that allows software to run on modern systems
Just saw GTA III re[1], but there are other similar projects that impress me. Prince of Persia[2] is an interesting one as is Starcraft running on arm[3].
And what about you? What is the recompiled software that amazes you the most?
[1] https://github.com/GTAmodding/re3 but
[2] https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP
[3] https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/starcraft.73844/
6 points · Open discussion