fheroes2 VS Simitone

fhearos2 - Heroes of Might and Magic II clone. C++, SDL2

Emscripten port https://github.com/midzer/fheroes2 took me over 24 hours due removal of multi-threaded code - and rather slow compile laptop. Currently Browser Audio API can't run in a worker at all. PThreads are stable in Emscripten but can make issues for example if main thread is blocked via mutexes.

Based on Original port https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 THX!

fheroes2 is here now https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 and it's anything BUT dormant.

Updated less than a day ago and version 1.0.3 released four days ago.

You have linked a very old and outdated version. The development is progressing at a good pace, but here: https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 The project has recently reached version 1.0.

There is also fheroes2[0], for Heroes of Might & Magic II!

[0]: https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2

I know that it's possible to play Heroes of Might and Magic II on the Switch with https://ihhub.github.io/fheroes2/ or DOSBox but I'm not sure if you can also play Heroes of Might and Magic III.

Try choose project which can be started very simple and have great guide for getting started. Because you new to the project, would be good to just make it build, and run test with as little frictions as possible. For example https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2/blob/master/docs/DEVELOPMENT.md this is mid sized project which are welcoming, and at the same time you just can build project by following instructions. Because you can run code, you can change it.

Simitone - Re-implementation of The Sims 1, based off of FreeSO.

According to [1] "EA only demanded us not to port the game on mobile devices"; that's the only thing I could find.

It's still on GitHub anyway: https://github.com/riperiperi/Simitone

Looks like the main dev mostly moved on to https://github.com/riperiperi/FreeSO

[1]: https://mobile.twitter.com/Simitone/status/12027483512272691...

Hell, it's already happening for Sims 1 and Sims Online.

Speaking as someone who plays a lot of retro games, you're almost always better off running one of the already existing software API converters even on AMD or nVidia hardware these days if there's no open-source engine reimplementation that allows you to just run the game with modern code and other tweaks to help modern systems along. (eg. OpenRCT2, Simitone, OpenMW, etc) There's a lot of reasons as to why but essentially it all boils down to the simple fact that the older versions of DX and OpenGL aren't fully supported on modern GPUs, they're supported and probably tested to a certain degree but they're also a much lower priority than say, making sure the hot new FPS launching next month has a driver update that ensures it'll work well.

Simitone

On alternativeto.net I found FreeSO and OpenSimulator, albeit OpenSimulator looks to me more like a 3d chat MMO/ secondlife alternative.

Simitone might be more along the lines of what OP is looking for. It is based on The Sims Complete Collection (and requires a copy of it). Unfortunately I've never been able to get it running despite looking for posts about the project.