RigelEngine
Modern reimplementation of the engine of the DOS game Duke Nukem II.
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- Original
- Duke Nukem II (1993)
- Platform
- MS-DOS
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2016, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
- Team
- lethal-guitar
- Started
- 2016-10
- Runs on
- Windows, Linux, macOS
- 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 Duke Nukem II you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by lethal-guitar. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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