About

Abuse is a dark 2D side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com in 1995. It features beautiful lighting, realistic animation and nasty alien-like creatures to destroy.

This is the new home to Abuse and Abuse-SDL. I took over maintenance of that game to prevent it from vanishing from the Internet.

Since Abuse's public domain release in 1997, the following improvements were made:

• video output uses the SDL library, with optional OpenGL rendering
• 64-bit platforms support
• lots of crashes, memory leaks and general bugs fixed

Downloads

The latest official version is 0.7.1:

• abuse-0.7.1.tar.gz (March 2nd, 2008)

Two sets of free level files are available. abuse-lib is the original shareware version of the game, released into the public domain. abuse-frabs is the result of a community effort to create free Abuse levels:

• abuse-lib-2.00.tar.gz (February 2nd, 1996)
• abuse-frabs-2.11.tar.gz (March 2nd, 2008)

The sound effects were not put into the public domain. Bobby Prince, the current copyright holder, still agreed to their redistribution:

• abuse-sfx-2.00.tar.gz (February 2nd, 1996)

A full registered game dataset is also available. Its licensing terms are unclear, but Jonathan Clark and Dave Taylor, the original Abuse authors, allowed it to be freely redistributed for Abuse-SDL:

• abuse-data-2.00.tar.gz (February 2nd, 1996)

Development

Development takes place in a Subversion repository. You can browse it online or check it out using svn:

 svn co svn://svn.zoy.org/abuse/abuse/trunk abuse-trunk

You can report new bugs or browse current bugs.

Contact

Page maintained by ​Sam Hocevar

Contact me if you want to help in any way: ​sam@zoy.org

Links

Unfortunately, most Abuse resources are now dead. Here are a few worthwile links and archived pages that really deserve to be salvaged:

• ​Cypress's Abuse page, with lots of downloads including Satan Paint and additional Abuse levels
• ​abuse2.com archived page, again with lots of downloads
• ​fRaBs archived page
• ​Abuse-SDL archived page