Lost Engines

About this project

Apache Analysed is a tour of our work on Digital Integration's Apache Longbow, released in 1995 and known as Apache in the US. We reverse engineered the game, built tools to inspect its resources, and reconstructed it in C++.

The exhibits use the game's original model, terrain, mission and image data, decoded during that work. The animation figure comes from the supplied MANEDIT editor, whose executable credits Scawen Roberts. Digital Integration and the original artists and developers made the work shown here.

Read, explore, play

• The investigation: how we approached it and what we found.
• Apache research repository: detailed findings and analysis tools.
• Apache C++: the game reconstruction.
• Apache Redux: the enhanced version.
• This site's repository: pages and browser viewers.

More Lost Engines projects

We've also explored Darker, TFX, Inferno, Corncob 3D and Earthsiege. Visit Lost Engines for the wider project.