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Cannonball: An Enhanced OutRun Engine

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2013-02-15 · latest 2026-06-21

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  1. For an example of what a "finished" product of this work looks like, check out Cannonball at https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki , an Out Run remake preserving the original game logic.
    comment by bonzini · 2026-06-21 · in DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
  2. There is a license: https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/blob/master/docs/license.... ...but it's very clearly not an open source license.
    comment by seba_dos1 · 2025-12-07 · in The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
  3. But, for example, isn't Cannonball (SEGA Outrun source port) open source? https://github.com/djyt/cannonball
    comment by DrNosferatu · 2025-12-06 · in The unexpected effectiveness of one-shot decompilation with Claude
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    Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine
    story by fidotron · 2025-01-10 · 12 comments
  5. I knew I couldn't be the only one. Does this serve as a consolation prize, though? https://github.com/djyt/cannonball
    comment by jakearmitage · 2024-01-16 · in OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker
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    CannonBall: The Enhanced OutRun Engine
    story by ecliptik · 2023-08-15 · 0 comments
  7. see also Cannonball, which I discovered recently—a reimplementation and improvement of OutRun https://github.com/djyt/cannonball
    comment by arrakeen · 2019-12-06 · in Show HN: Space Invaders in C
  8. …cool!! Out of interest, have you played with Cannonball before? It's an improved Outrun engine: https://github.com/djyt/cannonball/wiki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV9BZbk7C-E There's a port for Vampire-enhanced Amigas, so any new…
    comment by ZenoArrow · 2017-05-25 · in The A-EON Amiga X5000: An alternate universe where the Amiga platform never died
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    CannonBall – The Enhanced OutRun Engine
    story by unwind · 2014-02-06 · 0 comments
  10. …http://reassembler.blogspot.com/ http://reassembler.blogspot.co.uk/p/cannonball-open-source-o... https://github.com/djyt/cannonball
    comment by ANTSANTS · 2013-02-15 · in How to build a racing game