Descent / Descent II (DXX-Retro)

Games: Descent → (DOS, 1995) · Descent II → (DOS, 1996)

DXX-Retro: a Descent and Descent II source port aimed at quality competitive play, committed to the original gameplay except where the original “sucked.” It’s based on the Rebirth project and has one executable per game, D1X-Retro and D2X-Retro. The latest stable releases are 1.3 for D1X-Retro and 1.3a for D2X-Retro (January 20, 2017), with builds for Windows and macOS. The experimental ones, up to 1.4X6 (January 17, 2018, D1X-Retro only), added custom ship colors, an observer mode (with first- and third-person views, and Ctrl+1 to 8 to follow each player), demo and co-op fixes, and building on macOS with scons. The last code change is from April 2023. DXX-Redux, another project for the same games, builds on it.

You needThe data files from your own copy of Descent or Descent II; the README doesn’t list them. Plus Windows or macOS (the downloads are from 2017 and 2018); on other systems, build it.

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Console

MS-DOS

Original studio

Parallax Software

Year

1995

Author

CDarrow

Stars

52

Last activity

2023-04-16 · 3 years ago

Latest version

v1.3.1 · 2017-01-20

Language

C

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