Rise of the Triad (Taradino)

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

Taradino: an SDL2 port of Rise of the Triad, the 3D action game Apogee released in 1994, to current systems (Linux, Windows, and macOS). It duplicates the original game’s functionality and fixes what 64-bit and big-endian systems need. It’s maintained by Fabian Greffrath, and its first release under the taradino name is from August 15, 2025, with support for RottEX map files, a more consistent framerate, and many rendering fixes. The latest, 20251222 (December 22, 2025), also looks for the game files in GOG Galaxy install paths; 20251216 had added a search for all official level packs to pick in the New Game menu, separate mouse sensitivities for turning, moving, and looking, deleting key bindings with Del, soundfont lookup in common directories, and, at build time, optional music through OPL/AdLib synthesis with libADLMIDI. It builds with CMake, as a registered or a shareware version. Among its known issues, demos go out of sync and there is no netplay. The published downloads are 64-bit Windows zips (about 3 MB); on Linux and macOS you build it. The last code change is from March 20, 2026.

You needThe files from your own copy of Rise of the Triad (the registered version, such as GOG’s, or the shareware one, which requires building the shareware variant); the README doesn’t list the file names. Plus 64-bit Windows, or Linux or macOS if you build it, with SDL2 and SDL2_mixer.

How it gets to PC

Port of the released source code

Console

MS-DOS

Original studio

Apogee Software

Year

1994

Author

fabiangreffrath

Stars

59

Last activity

2026-03-20 · 7 months ago

Latest version

20251222 · 2025-12-22

License

GPL-2.0

Language

C

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