freeablo
Archived modern reimplementation of the Diablo 1 engine; the author stopped work and explains why in the repository issues.
Rewrite Human-led stalledFacts
- Original
- Diablo (1996)
- Platform
- Windows
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2013, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- stalled
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
- Team
- wheybags
- Started
- 2013-07
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Diablo you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by wheybags. Facts last checked 2026-10-14. Suggest a correction
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