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sots-engine
A from-scratch, functional reimplementation of the engine behind Sword of the Stars (2006). Not a byte-for-byte decompilation: behavior-equivalent code, built up one verified piece at a time (OpenRCT2-style) until the tree can build the whole application on its own.
Bring your own game. This repository contains engine code only. Game data, assets, saves, and
the original binaries are never included; tests and tools read an owner-supplied copy via
$SOTS_DATA_DIR. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the clean-room rules.
Status
Phase 2 / M0 — the shim frontend (src/shim/): a proxy DLL the original game loads, used to
verify each reimplemented function against the original before it displaces it. Engine code
accrues under src/mars/ (engine) and src/game/ (game logic) as milestones land.
Layout (grows with the work)
src/shim/— binkw32 proxy + hooks + old-vs-new compare harness (frontend #1)src/mars/,src/game/— the engine and game reimplementation (accruing)include/generated/sots_addresses.h— binary facts (RVAs/prototypes), generated from the RE repotests/— host tests; real-data tests skip unless$SOTS_DATA_DIRis settools/— build (MinGW i686 cross) and deploy scripts
Planning, findings, and verification evidence are tracked in the private RE repo (sots-re).