DUNE II (OpenDUNE)

atarist-opendune-teaser.mp4

OpenDUNE is an open source recreation of the popular game Dune II by Westwood Studios.

Installing

To experience OpenDUNE on any machine in the Atari ST family:

1. Copy the OPENDUNE.TOS file below to your hard disk
2. Create a DATA folder in the same directory and copy all of the files from your legally purchased original DOS version of DUNE II into it
3. If you'd like to change any settings, create an OPENDUNE.INI file in the same folder (optional)
4. Run OPENDUNE.TOS

Performance

• OpenDUNE runs in 16 colours on an ST, 256 on a TT/Falcon.
• You'll typically get 6-15fps on an ST/STE (depending how busy the screen is), around 20fps on a Mega STE (shown in the video above) and 60fps on a TT/Falcon.
• Sound effects are DMA audio on STE/TT/Falcon, with YM2194 effects on standard ST based on original Tandy audio.
• YM2194 music is available on all STs using General MIDI reduced to 3 voices and drums.

For more information, see README.atari.

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A huge thank you to Thomas Bernard for his fantastic work on the original 68030-only TOS port of OpenDUNE that made this version possible.

All of my updates are submitted as PRs to the OpenDUNE project, so if you'd like to contribute to the ST version, please don't hesitate to send them a PR, and if you let me know when it's merged I'd be happy to include it in this release.