New Port, SDL port of Tyrian - a space shootEmUp by Epic MegaGames!

Scrolling screen, a nice variety of powerup weapons and lots of enemies. Has a nice little backstory too.

From Epic MegaGames comes Tyrian featuring Intense arcade action with Multiple Parallax backgrounds, Enhanced Pentium mode, Awesome Soundtrack, Killer Graphics, HUGE heart stopping explosions and Modem/Network support! Choose from over 300 different weapon combinations to build the most advanced combat vessel the universe will ever experience! Multiple gameplay options offer you hours of excitement and exploration. Tyrian brings the most complete overhead arcade shooter to life on your PC!

http://pupnik.de/Tyrian_on_N810_demo.avi

running smoothly on N810. (camera can't keep up :P). Has difficulty and speed adjustments to make it survivable on the tablet too.

This is just a performance tweak build - trying to get the best fps out of it. Bottom of screen cuts out for some reason. Just untar it and run from cmdline for now.

http://pupnik.de/opentyrian_0.1.deb

http://code.google.com/p/opentyrian/
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/ty...html?id=452960
http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/...25/Tyrian.html
http://members.iinet.net.au/~vannevar/tyrian/ <<< Big bad page with lots of info about the game and the planned sequel.

(edit) 08.03.03 updated tgz with software-scaled version (scale2x). xsp accelerated version is now ./tyrian_xsp and scale2x version ./tyrian

(edit) 08.03.12 New .deb with installer (thanks ukki) - requires only 351kB installed! (~9MB free to install). Use dpad to steer. If someone wants to fix mouse and xsp let meh know.

I am totally groovin on the music. Alexander Brandon is one of the best!