ironseed_fpc

About

Ironseed is a 1994 MS-DOS game developed and published by Channel 7, combining space trading and combat with real-time strategy elements. ironseed_fpc is a Free Pascal port of Iron Seed's original released source code, letting the game be compiled and run natively on GNU/Linux (tested on x86_64 and i386), maintained with ongoing bug fixes since the original source was released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.

Getting started

It's built from source with the Free Pascal compiler, GCC, and SDL2 (plus optional tools for rebuilding data files), then run directly once compiled; prebuilt Debian packages are also available for easier installation.

Additional notes

Build variants

Besides the standard build, there's an experimental variant without anti-data-corruption checks (risking corrupted savefiles) and a separate build that reproduces the original shareware demo's restrictions.