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Porting Death Rally from DOS to Windows (2010)

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Offtopic except for being about an old game being ported to windows: https://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ does that for Descent and Descent II. It's not a clone but actually trying to keep as much of the old game as possible. You'll still need a copy of the old games for the game assets though.

> Death Rally was released as freeware for Windows and can be downloaded from www.death-rally.com.

Is it still available? I can't find the download link.

Some futzing about with the Wayback Machine lead me to http://www.remedygames.com/files/DeathRallyWin_10.exe which was denied to archive.org and wasn't available there. Perhaps when remedy released Death Rally for iOS they pulled it?

I've tweeted @remedygames, but I don't want to pester individual employees for it. https://twitter.com/voltagex/status/1028283518336421889

I'm 90% sure that these hashes are good - via AusGamers

MD5 Sum: 81584602e6f809817e62cbce89178727

SHA1 Sum: bda2a2230c01580ac779f3cf0f5954d234c8c78e

Aha: https://store.steampowered.com/app/108700/Death_Rally/ (remake) and https://store.steampowered.com/app/358270/Death_Rally_Classi... (probably DOSBox?) are probably why that file got pulled.

Annoyingly, 3DRealms used to sell a huge bundle of these games via their site, but that "ended" in 2016. Silly rights agreements.

I have DeathRallyWin_10.exe lying around from 2011, and those hashes match mine.

https://community.remedygames.com/forum/games/death-rally/26...

Following the second link lead to:

https://www.gamewatcher.com/mods/death-rally-2009-mod/free-f...

That said, "death rally freeware" into any random search engine results in a number of sites that offer a mirror. Including moddb.com.

If you check the "Who?" page, the author mentions writing an SQL tutorial software "GalaXQL" and an 8051 simulator at school. I went to the same school and remember that they were used as teaching aids in different courses.

SSL cert error

Probably your ISP or government man-in--the-middle attacking you, and your browser is detecting sthat something is off.

How did you get certificate error for an HTTP page?

could be using an extension that force https connections.

Weird, works fine on my end.

Also works here. Chrome Android and 4g.

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