Open Liero (Beta)

Posted by Derek Yu Wed, 12 Sep 2007 04:01:00 GMT

open liero

Liero was created by Joosa Riekkinen in 1999 for DOS. Since then, there have been plenty of conversions and similar games made, but the original has never made the transition to Windows… UNTIL NOW. (I’ve always wanted to say that.)

Open Liero is technically not a real port of the original game, since the source code was lost many years ago. Rather, it’s a hack that allows you to play Liero in Windows (or Linux), in a window, with the sound support the original was missing. In order to run Open Liero, you must have the original Liero files in the same directory.

Open Liero is still in development, so it’s not fully featured, although it is fully playable. Most but not all of the existing total conversions are supported already.

Good news for Liero fans! (Thanks, basara!)

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  1. jmdbcool said about 5 hours later:

    Liero is sweet and all… but why not just run it in DOSBox (which is already multi-platform)?

  2. merkwuerdigich said about 5 hours later:

    DOSBox is so hot.

  3. basara said about 5 hours later:

    Liero runs terribly slow for me in DosBox, even after changing the cpu clock settings you cant play with 0% loading times ;)

  4. Tim said about 6 hours later:

    DOSBox.

  5. DOSBox said about 6 hours later:

    Tim.

  6. Derek said about 6 hours later:

    GUYS.

  7. GUYS. said about 6 hours later:

    Derek

  8. datoo said about 7 hours later:

    haha i ruined it

  9. haha i ruined it said about 7 hours later:

    datoo

  10. Nikica said about 9 hours later:

    Heh, and i always wanted to say that Lire is a clone of MoleZ: http://www.fractilegames.com/page.php?page=product&name=molez

  11. Heh, and i always wanted to say that Lire is a clone of MoleZ: http://www.fractilegames.com/page.php?page=product&name=molez said about 9 hours later:

    Nikica

  12. Nikica said about 9 hours later:

    *Liero not Lire

  13. *Liero not Lire said about 9 hours later:

    Nikica

  14. Nikica said about 9 hours later:

    *Liero not Lire

  15. *Liero not Lire said about 9 hours later:

    Nikica

  16. James Monkman (RGCD) said about 9 hours later:

    Well, bugger what the rest of you DOSBox fanboys think - I’m glad to see Liero get an XP/Linux conversion :)

  17. Isador21 said about 11 hours later:

    WTF You people on TIGsource don’t know about Liero Xtreme? http://iworx5.webxtra.net/~lxallian/LXRS/

  18. *Liero not Lire said about 20 hours later:

    “Since then, there have been plenty of conversions and similar games made, but the original has never made the transition to Windows… UNTIL NOW.”

    Read that Isador21

  19. Isador21 said about 24 hours later:

    Oh so it’s like the original game … Nice :D

  20. trav said 1 day later:

    the original game lacked networking, which is a shame IMO as i frequently had cheap keyboard problems “what’s that? you want to hold down more than 3 keys at a time? BWAAAHAAHAAAA! NO KEYS FOR YOU CHEAP ASS!”

  21. Venca said 1 day later:

    Oh god, i’ve prayed for this for sooooo long!!! Sweet! :D Anyway, DOSBox is kinda cool, but it sucks big time when it comes to running Liero! Just try it and you’ll see why

  22. jmdbcool said 2 days later:

    I have no problems running Liero in DOSBox, with sound and everything, if I just crank up the clock speed and maybe add 1-2 frameskip. And this is on an older computer (2GHz processor) in Win XP.

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