C-Dogs (C-Dogs SDL)

Game: C-Dogs (DOS, 1997)

C-Dogs SDL: a continuation of C-Dogs, the overhead run-and-gun game Ronny Wester made for DOS between 1997 and 2001 and gave away as freeware. Wester released the source code in 2002; Jeremy Chin and Lucas Martin-King ported it to SDL for modern systems, and it’s now maintained by Cong Xu. In 2016 Wester also relicensed the original graphics and campaigns under CC BY. Up to four people can play, co-op or deathmatch, in split screen, over a LAN, or with computer-controlled teammates, and it comes with campaign and character editors, the classic campaigns, and new ones such as a Cyberdogs campaign, after Wester’s earlier game; over 100 player-made campaigns are also available. Since 1.0 it loads the Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny maps from your own copy as campaigns, and since 2.4.0, with “Super 2D Noah’s Ark,” those of Super 3D Noah’s Ark. Version 2.5.0 (October 16) added a DOS pixel aspect ratio mode and the mission briefing in the pause menu. The download also includes the data of the Wolfenstein 3D shareware episode, which is freely distributable.

You needNo copy needed: C-Dogs’ code has been free since 2002 and its graphics and campaigns have been CC BY since 2016, so the download contains the whole game. The Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, and Super 3D Noah’s Ark campaigns need the files from your own copy of those games (it finds Steam installs of Wolfenstein 3D and Spear of Destiny on its own). Plus Windows, Linux, or macOS.

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Console

MS-DOS

Original studio

Ronny Wester

Year

1997

Author

Cong Xu

Stars

1.1k

Last activity

2026-10-24 · 7 days ago

Latest version

2.5.0 · 2026-10-16

License

GPL-2.0

Language

C