About
The Lost Vikings is a 1993 puzzle-platform game developed by Silicon & Synapse and published by Interplay Productions, in which the player controls three vikings with different abilities who must cooperate to complete each level. This is a native Linux/Windows port of the original 1992 DOS Lost Vikings, built by decompiling the original 16-bit executable via the m2c decompiler and wrapping the resulting code in an SDL2 shell. A parallel "v2" reimplementation is being grown alongside it with the goal of eventually replacing the decompiled VM bytecode-for-bytecode. It requires the original DATA.DAT asset file from a legal copy of the game (such as one purchased on GOG) and ships prebuilt Linux and Windows binaries through automated GitHub releases.
How it differs from the original
The port renders the original's Miles/AIL sound driver natively through an 8086 interpreter feeding a Nuked OPL3 chip emulation core, and can optionally add SNES/Genesis-exclusive console content (extra parallax layers, five console-only levels, Genesis interludes, and twelve Blizzard Arcade Collection language packs) when the player supplies their own SNES and Genesis ROM images, plus optional emulated Roland SC-55/MT-32 sound modules.
Getting started
Requires the copyrighted DATA.DAT file from a legal copy of the game, such as one purchased on GOG; place it next to the vikings binary and launch. Prebuilt Linux and Windows binaries are available from the project's GitHub Releases page, or it can be built from source.
Media
Additional notes
- License
- A built binary is distributed under GPL version 3 specifically because of the bundled xBRZ upscaling filter, even though the project's own port code carries a separate license.