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U-Hexen is another free and open source port of Hexen game.

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Free and open source port of Hexen game.

U-Hexen is another port of Hexen game of Raven Software and Id Software to Simple Directmedia Layer library (SDL). U-Hexen works on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows platforms


Main features.

- Plays digital music via DSP device using SDL_mixers timidity library (requires instrument patches, download here);
- Uses hardware acceleration (2D only), if it detected by SDL;
- Some new menus added for easier configuration;
- Uses FreeBSD syscons driver (if invoked from ttyvX and SDL fails to initialize graphics);
- "Turbo mouse" mode to correct mouse sensitivity on different platfotms.


U-Hexen is yet another port of Hexen game of Raven Software and Id Software to Simple Directmedia Layer library (SDL). It works on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Windows platforms.

The latest snapshot is available here.

The latest windows version is available here.

To play you also need resource file (hexen.wad) you can download it here (this is demo version distributed by Raven Software).












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