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Carmageddon

Stainless Games Ltd. · 1997 · DOS

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A build to download from the project and run on your device.

  • dethrace

    By dethrace-labs1229 stars on its repository

    Releases

    ReimplementationWindowsmacOSLinux

    Latest release v0.10.1, Feb 22, 2026Code last updated Oct 21, 2026License: GPL-3.0

    How to play
    1. Download the build for your system from its latest release: Linux (x64 or arm64), macOS, or Windows (x64 or x86).
    2. It ships no game content: it needs the data of your own Carmageddon, from its CD or the Max Pack bought on GOG.
    3. It also plays the freeware demos of Carmageddon and of its Splat Pack.
    4. Put it in the top-level Carmageddon folder, the one with CARMA.EXE; on Windows, put SDL2.dll there too.
    5. To keep the game in another folder, or change other settings, write a dethrace.ini file.
    6. If the Carmageddon folder holds a MUSIC folder of Track02.ogg, Track03.ogg and so on, as GOG's copy does, it plays them in place of the CD's music.

    Written by recomp.gg from its release v0.10.1, read Oct 12, 2026 and its README, read Oct 12, 2026.

Build from source

The project publishes its code and no build: you build it as its README says.

  • dethrace-ported-to-web

    By Carter54git37 stars on its repository

    Source

    Decompilation

    Code last updated Jul 5, 2026

    How to play
    1. There is no build to download: get the code from the project's repository.
    2. Build it as its README says. What the build gives, a program to run or the original game rebuilt for an emulator, is written there too.
    3. The project's page says what it needs from your own copy of Carmageddon, if anything.

From SubmitGame's list, read Oct 21, 2026, with releases, stars and licenses as each project's repository gives them. recomp.gg wrote some projects' steps from their own pages, as each says; the others' are the same for every project of a kind, and its own page has the details.

Under the hood: every project behind it, its license and code, how they connect, and who made them.

  1. Release · Feb 22, 2026dethrace v0.10.1, and 9 more since Sep 20, 2022
  2. Hacker NewsPost · Hacker News · Sep 25, 2024Dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game "Carmageddon" (2023)
  3. Hacker NewsPost · Hacker News · Sep 18, 2024Dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game "Carmageddon"
  4. Hacker NewsPost · Hacker News · Apr 26, 2023Dethrace: Reverse engineering the 1997 game Carmageddon

About

Take the wheel as Max Damage as you plow scores of vehicles unlucky enough to be in your way in Carmageddon, an action racing game. Your soundtrack will be the sound of crunching metal, the splatter of motor oil on the windshield, and the screams of skidding tires. With a white-knuckled grip on the wheel, you'll have the choice of 23 crash mobiles (from a terrifying monster truck to a high octane Dragster) and 30+ levels of hellish fury and motorized terror.

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