Ace of Spades (BetterSpades)

Game: Ace of Spades → (Windows, 2011)

BetterSpades: an open-source client for classic Ace of Spades (the Voxlap-based 0.75), Ben Aksoy’s online voxel shooter, with no Jagex code at all. It targets modest hardware: it runs on OpenGL 1.1 and OpenGL ES, its author says it performs as well as or better than the original Voxlap client, and it once had a Steam Link build. It has a server list with country flags, local network game discovery, and first-person spectating, and it can open aos:// links like the original client or replace it when copied into its folder. The latest release is 0.1.5 (May 14, 2021), for Windows only; on Linux and macOS you build it, and there are nightly builds. The latest code changes are from July 2025. When building, CMake downloads a resource pack from aos.party, a community site, which the repository doesn’t include because, according to its author, the copyright status of the 0.75 assets is unknown.

You needNo copy needed: Ace of Spades 0.75 was a free game, and the download works on its own, extracted into a new folder. It’s played online, so you need an internet connection. According to its README, Windows 98 or Linux, a 1 GHz single-core CPU, 256 MB of RAM, and a graphics chip with 64 MB (Intel 945GM or equivalent) are enough; on macOS you have to build it.

How it gets to PC

Fan reimplementation

Console

Microsoft Windows

Original studio

Ben Aksoy

Author

xtreme8000

Stars

286

Last activity

2025-07-30 · 1 year ago

Latest version

v0.1.5 · 2021-05-14

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C

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