Lost Engines / reverse engineering
Corncob 3D
An open-world flight game from 1991, with alien invaders, a pistol in the cockpit and some deeply unhelpful ground crew. This is the full research archive behind our native reconstructions.
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Corncob Contemplated
Explore the maps and models, listen to the music, and read the story of taking this peculiar little game apart.
Visit Corncob Contemplated ↗The full investigation
These are our working tools and notes: decoded resources, original file references, experiments, disassembly and the recovered assembly source. The archive covers the normal game, earlier shareware editions and The Other Worlds Campaign.
Models, theatre maps, cockpit screens, saved campaigns, recorded flights and lossless audio exports.
Research reports ↗19 reports and capture notes covering formats, game rules and the evidence behind our findings.
Play Corncob 3D ↗A faithful C++ reconstruction, combining the original game and Other Worlds in one executable.
Corncob Redux ↗Our modernised native version: higher resolutions, configurable controls and fixes for some of the original’s rough edges.
Research on GitHub ↗The full analysis, extraction tools, media inventories and preserved source snapshot.
The Lost Engines Project ↗More games, recovered engines and playable reconstructions.