Alone in the Dark: Classic Reborn
Games: Alone in the Dark (DOS, 1992) · Jack in the Dark (DOS, 1993) · Alone in the Dark 2 (DOS, 1993) · Alone in the Dark 3 (DOS, 1994)
A port of Infogrames’ engine to play Alone in the Dark (1992), Jack in the Dark, Alone in the Dark 2, and Alone in the Dark 3 on Windows and Linux, and experimentally on macOS and Android, with their original graphics. It starts from yaz0r’s FITD (Free in the Dark), which translated the DOS executable’s engine into readable C++ without rebuilding it byte for byte; the game logic isn’t in the executable but in the scripts of LISTLIFE.PAK, which the engine interprets as the original did. It’s a fork of Spacefarer Retro Remasters’ Alone in the Dark: Re-Haunted, with the HD mode removed: everything added here is optional. All four games are playable from start to end. It fixes bugs of the original (objects drawn in the wrong order, monsters stuck at windows, game speed tied to the frame rate…) and adds a launcher to pick the game, the language (the five of the GOG and Steam editions), and the folder, screen options, optional effects (FXAA, bloom, film grain, CRT scanlines, SSAO), controller support with a modern stick or tank controls, rumble, and custom backgrounds: you export the game’s backgrounds and can replace them with repainted ones. The HD background packs for the four games aren’t in the repository: the README links them on Google Drive. Version 1.7.0 is from November 10.
You needYour own copy of Alone in the Dark (which includes Jack in the Dark), Alone in the Dark 2, or Alone in the Dark 3, in their GOG or Steam editions, or an image of your original CD (.cue and .bin, or .iso). 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with a DirectX 11 GPU; 64-bit Linux with Vulkan or OpenGL; macOS 11 or later (experimental); or 64-bit Android 7 or later (experimental).
- How it gets to PC
- Port of a decompilation
- Console
- MS-DOS
- Original studio
- Infogrames
- Year
- 1992
- Author
- nayo186
Type and pick from the list; if it isn’t there, type it and press Enter. For a launcher, the games it installs; for a generic tool, leave it empty.
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