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Hurrican (SDL2 build) on Flatpak!
wvstolzing Apr 4, 2022
To Commodore 64/Amiga kids of the 80s & 90s, the Turrican series needs no introduction; neither should the amazingly well crafted 'Hurrican', made by a fan collective called 'Poke53280', which came out in 2007.

Poke53280 released the source code for the game several years ago; & someone made a SDL2 port shortly afterwards. I remember getting & compiling it; & it played just as well as it did on windows xp.



I later lost that drive; & didn't know where to get the source all over again.
But future generations need not suffer any such hardship, because the game is now out on flatpak!
https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.github.hurricangame.hurrican

& the source is here:
https://github.com/HurricanGame/Hurrican

The original Poke53280 website is long gone, but here's a wayback machine snapshot (in German) from around the time when the game came out: https://web.archive.org/web/20070626045107/http://www.poke53280.de/artikel/index.php?artcat=0

The folks on lemon64 were very impressed by it: https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23618

Members from Poke53280 went on to found this company: https://www.winterworks.de/project/hurrican/
aarjav Apr 10, 2022
That's really awesome! thank you for sharing.

Last edited by aarjav on 18 April 2023 at 5:20 pm UTC
Mezron Apr 11, 2022
Man I played some when I read this here and it's great!
Avehicle7887 Apr 12, 2022
The last time I played this game was back on Win7, so nice to see a native port exists. Nice find thanks :)
Dennis_Payne Apr 14, 2022
Never played this. Great game. It has two player simultaneous and joystick plus seven buttons. Seems like the arcade machine will have a new game.
Avehicle7887 Apr 15, 2022
I've compiled a non-flatpak version from source if anyone wants it, let me know and I'll upload it somewhere.

I forgot how fun this game is and it ticks a lot of the original Turrican boxes. :)



CRT effect goodness!
wvstolzing Apr 17, 2022
Quoting: Avehicle7887I've compiled a non-flatpak version from source if anyone wants it, let me know and I'll upload it somewhere.

I forgot how fun this game is and it ticks a lot of the original Turrican boxes. :)



CRT effect goodness!

Yeah it's absolutely a labor of love. One of the boxes that it ticks even better than the originals is the number of hidden areas & bonus powerups that you can find; & I also think that the boss fights are better than the originals.
jamesedger Dec 14, 2022
I really missed it hoping to get it on win11 thanks...

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Last edited by jamesedger on 2 January 2023 at 5:04 pm UTC
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