MechCommander 2

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A port of MechCommander 2 to 64-bit Linux and Windows, with OpenGL. Microsoft released the game’s code under a Shared Source license, but not the code of its engine, GameOS, which came only as prebuilt libraries; this project writes a new engine from its header files. According to its author, everything works except networking, the game has been played through on Linux, and many bugs have been fixed, including some from the original game. Sound isn’t complete (no panning or Doppler effect), and what’s left includes movies, some memory leaks, and moving all lighting to shaders. The author considers the project finished for now and notes that, because of the war in Ukraine, there’s little time to support it; even so, the latest commits are from August. It ships no binaries: the game is built from source, and the data is generated with the project’s own tools from the mc2srcdata repository. Its README states that it contains no code written by language models and that AI-generated contributions aren’t welcome.

You needNo copy of the game is needed: Microsoft released its code and data, with permission to distribute the art for non-commercial use. The data is fetched from the mc2srcdata repository (with git-lfs) and prepared with tools built alongside the game. Plus 64-bit Linux or Windows; to build it, CMake, SDL2 with SDL2_mixer and SDL2_ttf, zlib, and GLEW.

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Console

Microsoft Windows

Original studio

FASA Interactive

Year

2001

Author

alariq

Stars

166

Last activity

2026-08-30 · 2 months ago

Latest version

v0.1.3 · 2026-05-04

License

GPL-3.0

Language

C++

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