OpenTyrian is a port of the DOS shoot-em-up Tyrian. Thanks to Jason Emery, the developers were given a copy of the Tyrian source to port but not redistribute. That code has since been ported from Turbo Pascal to C using SDL, making it easily cross-platform. The 'Classic' port involves minimal changes, but the 'Enhanced' port will feature further development.

Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. The story is set in 20,031 where you play as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot employed to fight Microsol and save the galaxy.

Builds

SVN builds are available on the forums for Windows and Mac OS X. Grab a copy of the Tyrian 2.1 data files (mirror, mirror), since they usually are not included with the SVN builds.

There are also console builds for the Amiga, Dreamcast, DS, GameCube, Gizmondo, GP2X, Nokia Internet Tablets, PSP, and Wii.

Building

If you'd prefer to build OpenTyrian yourself, checkout a copy of the source and...

• on Linux: install SDL and SDL_net, run make
• on Windows: see compiling with MinGW
• on Mac OS X: install SDL.framework and SDL_net.framework, open the project file, and click the Build button

Contacting the development team

• #tyrian on freenode
• the OpenTyrian forum