Open Liero (Beta)

By: Derek Yu

On: September 12th, 2007

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!)

  • jmdbcool

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

  • merkwuerdigich

    DOSBox is so hot.

  • basara

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

  • Tim

    DOSBox.

  • DOSBox

    Tim.

  • Derek

    *GUYS.*

  • GUYS.

    Derek

  • datoo

    haha i ruined it

  • haha i ruined it

    datoo

  • Nikica

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

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

    Nikica

  • Nikica

    *Liero not Lire

  • *Liero not Lire

    Nikica

  • Nikica

    *Liero not Lire

  • *Liero not Lire

    Nikica

  • http://www.rgcd.co.uk James Monkman (RGCD)

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

  • http://isadorblog.blogspot.com Isador21

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

  • *Liero not Lire

    “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

  • http://isadorblog.blogspot.com Isador21

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

  • trav

    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!”

  • Venca

    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

  • jmdbcool

    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.