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This is a game I spent hours at on my Amiga 1200, in the days when I knew that my system was superior to my uncle’s creaky IBM that played Sim City well, but that was about it, really. The fact that an open source remake of the Dune II game exists is music to my ears. If you somehow know nothing about Dune, either in terms of Frank Herbert’s books, the 1980s movie by David Lynch, the new Denis Villeneuve adaptation, or simply Dune 2 on the Amiga or old PCs, simply think of Command & Conquer but with different backstory and unit names. Boasting graphical and gameplay improvements, new maps, bug fixes and improved balancing, there is even the option to compile the game under Linux (although that isn’t entirely stable at this stage, so one for the future perhaps). After morphing into the Command & Conquer series, Dune II was forgotten for years, until now.ĭune II – The Maker is an open-source remake of the original Dune II game, and has just released version 0.7.0. One of the greatest 16-bit era real-time strategy titles was Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty.