1oom

About

Master of Orion is a turn-based, 4X science fiction strategy game in which the player leads one of ten races to dominate the galaxy through diplomacy and conquest while developing technology, exploring, and colonizing star systems. 1oom is a from-scratch engine recreation of Master of Orion (1993), released under the GPLv2, with builds for Windows, DOS, and Linux (via SDL/SDL_mixer). It ships as a family of executables beyond the main game, including a text-based interface, an LBX file viewer/editor, and a save-file converter, and requires copies of the original Master of Orion v1.3 LBX data files to run.

How it differs from the original

It adds tools not present in the original release, such as a proof-of-concept text/command-line interface and utilities for viewing, editing, and converting the game's LBX data and save files.

Getting started

On Windows or DOS, copy the executable alongside your Master of Orion (v1.3) files, or copy your MOO1 LBX files into the 1oom directory; on Linux, install the SDL and SDL_mixer libraries first, then run one of the provided executables.

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Status & roadmap

• Some code was adapted from the Chocolate Doom and VICE projects, and its README structure was borrowed from OpenXcom's.