Rise of the Triad (Barrett)

Game: Rise of the Triad: Dark War → (DOS, 1994)

Barrett: a Rise of the Triad source port based on rottexpr, focused on quality of life for players and developers, with wider compatibility, new features, and better support for modern hardware. It uses SDL2 and SDL2_mixer and builds with CMake (GCC or Clang; on Windows, something like MinGW). Version 1.3-beta (June 14) overhauled the display: aspect ratio correction, which stretches the render by 1.2 to imitate VGA’s tall pixels, a resolution menu sorted and labeled by aspect ratio, resolution changes without a restart, a default resolution based on the monitor, and fixed HUD and save-preview scaling. On Linux, music uses a soundfont (userdata/barrett.sf2 or the system ones); on Windows, the system MIDI; the extended options menu can enable OPL emulation. There are builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Licensed under GPL-2.0, on top of Apogee’s code and the icculus.org port.

You needThe files from your own copy of Rise of the Triad: DEMO1_3.DMO to DEMO4_3.DMO and REMOTE1.RTS, plus DARKWAR.RTC, DARKWAR.RTL, and DARKWAR.WAD (registered version) or HUNTBGIN.RTC, HUNTBGIN.RTL, and HUNTBGIN.WAD (the shareware version), all in the executable’s folder. Plus SDL2 and SDL2_mixer; on Linux, a soundfont (FluidR3 as the fallback).

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Console

MS-DOS

Original studio

Apogee Software

Year

1994

Author

lunarmeadow

Stars

34

Last activity

2026-10-08 · 23 days ago

Latest version

v1.3-beta · 2026-06-14

License

GPL-2.0

Language

C

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