Duke Nukem 3D Ported To Dreamcast

An anonymous reader writes "Just noticed over at Boob! that Duke Nukem 3D has had its first non-x86 port - for the Sega Dreamcast. Downloads and other info are available at the SDL-DC Sourceforge page." This port, which was made possible by the Duke 3D sourcecode release we reported a while back, is based on a Linux port using SDL, and requires a Dreamcast keyboard in order to play.

Keyboard required

[seinman]

Am I going to have to pay an arm and a leg to buy an old Dreamcast keyboard off of ebay? I'd love to give this a try, but only if I can find a cheap keyboard (we're talking $20 or less here), or wait for an upgrade that lets you use a controller.

Re:Keyboard required

[ronfar]

According to Amazon, there are "25 Used and New from $4.75" [amazon.com]. I don't think that the PC keyboard adaptors work with Homebrew games, at least the one I bought didn't, but it should be easy enough to get an official DC keyboard (I have two for two player Typing of the Dead).

icculus.org

[GiMP]

Thank theoddone33 for doing an excellent job on removing the x86 asm, and the icculus.org guys in general on an excellent port.

Cool hack

[bobthemonkey13]

"...Duke Nukem 3D has had its first non-x86 port..."

I'm not sure that this is correct. Does the Linux/SDL version compile on non-x86 Linux? Or does it contain some kind of processor-dependent code (eew!)? At any rate, this is still a cool hack, and it's nice to see a game console being actively developed for even after being more or less abandoned by the manufacturer. Maybe future console makers will follow Sega's lead and allow non-commercial development without expensive SDKs or illegal (thanks DMCA

Re:Cool hack

[AlternateSyndicate]

Does the Linux/SDL version compile on non-x86 Linux?

Yes, yes it does. A concerted effort was made by one of the icculus.org folks to remove all of the x86 assembly. Right now, Duke3D and BUILD are both fully functional using only C code.

An OSX version was in progress, but it is apparently stalled at this time.

Not first non-x86 port

[zygote]

It was released for Macintosh.
The best selling game of 1996, 3D Realms' Duke Nukem 3D is coming to the Macintosh as MacSoft ships the title today [3drealms.com]
(Circa 1997)

Re:Why oh why haven't you all got Dreamcasts

[00_NOP]

Flamebait? Get out of here. It was a serious comment.