Populous is a strategy game originally released for the Commodore Amiga platform in March 1989 by Peter Molyneux’s company Bullfrog Productions. It is the first “god game,” a genre in which the player indirectly controls simulated beings by manipulating their environment, rather than by controlling units directly.
This project
This webpage is a reverse-engineering project which seeks to disassemble and analyze the game in order to learn how it works and document its various opaque mechanics.
Disassembly is done using Aira Force, howprice’s excellent graphical front-end for the ira command-line disassembler, for whom we must credit Tim Ruehsen, Frank Wille and Nicolas Bastien. The FS-UAE emulator by Frode Solheim et al has also been vital to the project.
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