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OpenSWOS

An open-source C port of Sensible World of Soccer (Amiga), for Windows, macOS, Linux, Amiga and the web, with online multiplayer.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 21, 2026 · 45 upvotes (top 29%) · 0 views

Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No A faithful port requires reverse-engineering the original Amiga engine and its proprietary game data, plus low-level C and networked multiplayer, which vibe coding alone cannot supply.

What it would actually take: The port means disassembling the original Amiga binaries and data formats to reproduce the engine's exact behavior, then rewriting it in portable C. Online multiplayer adds netcode work that needs careful synchronization. This takes experienced systems and reverse-engineering expertise and time spent verifying against the original.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1459 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #406 of 1460 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 352 days after the earliest competitor.

  • iss2000-recomp · github · 2026-10-17 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • strikers · github · 2026-09-10 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • mush8 · github · 2026-10-16 · 436 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • OpenSA2 · github · 2026-10-13 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • muguet · github · 2026-10-10 · 591 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • anotherworld-zx-spectrum-48k · github · 2026-09-28 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • Siniulator · github · 2026-09-17 · 52 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • wegame-launcher · github · 2026-10-04 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.50

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