OpenBreed

Open-source reimplementation of the classic 2D Alien Breed games and an editor, reading the original data files.

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Facts

Original: Alien Breed (classic 2D series) (1991)
Platform: Amiga / MS-DOS
Method: Rewrite
Provenance: Human-led · Repo created 2018, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
Status: wip
Licence: none
Team: mrpetro
Started: 2018-11
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 Alien Breed (classic 2D series) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt by mrpetro. Facts last checked 2026-10-17. Suggest a correction

Sources

https://github.com/mrpetro/OpenBreed

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