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Dust: A Tale of the Wired West Recomp

C++20 reconstruction of the 1995 Western adventure's engine that reads the original game's data folders, with a launcher offering modern display modes; preview release.

Rewrite Not stated wip

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Facts

Original: Dust: A Tale of the Wired West (1995)
Platform: Windows
Method: Rewrite
Provenance: Not stated what this means
Status: wip
Licence: GPL-3.0
Team: twitchplayskh
Started: 2026-10
First release: 2026-10
Runs on: Windows
Needs the original: Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy

How to get it legally

This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Dust: A Tale of the Wired West you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt by twitchplayskh. Facts last checked 2026-10-26. Suggest a correction

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