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The Great Escape in C
Port of the ZX Spectrum game The Great Escape rewritten in portable C.
Rewrite Human-led releasedFacts
- Original
- The Great Escape (1986)
- Platform
- ZX Spectrum
- Method
- Rewrite
- Provenance
- Human-led · Repo created 2014, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
- Status
- released
- Licence
- none
- Team
- dpt
- Started
- 2014-10
- 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 The Great Escape you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was rebuilt by dpt. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.
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