ppengine
Mostly complete 3D remake of the Pole Position coin-op that uses game logic reverse-engineered from the arcade program.
Rewrite Human-led stalledFacts
- Original
- Pole Position (Atari arcade) (1982)
- Platform
- Arcade
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2016, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- stalled
- Licence
- none
- Team
- jonathanopalise
- Started
- 2016-10
- Runs on
- Linux
- 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 Pole Position (Atari arcade) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by jonathanopalise. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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