Hellbender

Hellbender (1996, Terminal Reality / Microsoft) is the sequel to Fury³ and runs the same voxel-landscape engine. This recomp reuses the Fury³ pipeline (pcrecomp toolbox) wholesale — chosen precisely because the toolchain should port with minimal changes.

Binary profile (analysis/HELLBEND.EXE)

	Hellbender	(Fury³ for comparison)
Format	PE32, i386, Windows GUI	same
Size	1,685,504 bytes (+ 60 KB overlay)	645,120
Image base	0x00400000	same
Entry point	0x004ADD30	—
Linker	MSVC 3.10	MSVC 2.55
Built	1996-09-04	1995-08-14
Sections	.text .rdata .data .idata .rsrc .reloc (6)	similar
Code range	0x00401000–0x004EAE69 (958 KB)	383 KB
Imports	507 across 11 DLLs	160 / 5
Functions (IDA)	5,221 (1,754 lib, 617 thunk)	1,932

Same engine — confirmed by strings

sky.act, .vox voxel terrain, .raw bitmaps, .act palettes, .pod archives ("Too many .POD files at once!"), and asset names shared verbatim with Fury³ (blast%d.raw, bigex%d.raw, billow%d.raw, …). Same software voxel rasterizer.

OS surface — bigger, but mostly stub-able

Fury³ was pure GDI/StretchBlt. Hellbender adds backends and services that we stub, forcing the same GDI/StretchBlt fallback Fury³ uses:

• DDRAW.dll (DirectDraw), WING32.DLL (WinG), DISPDIB.DLL — alternate present paths; the engine probes and falls back to GDI. Stub the others.
• smackw32.dll — RAD Smacker video (intros). Stub (Fury³'s .avi intros were absent too).
• ADVAPI32.dll — registry config (SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Games\Hellbender) alongside hellbend.ini.
• COMCTL32.dll — property-sheet settings dialog. Stub.
• SHELL32.dll — drag/drop + ShellExecute. Stub.

The hot path (GDI render → 8-bit DIB → StretchBlt, USER window/message loop, KERNEL file/mem, WINMM audio, comdlg load/save) is the same shape as Fury³.

Status after Phase 0/1/3

• Lift is clean: run_lift.py → 5,262 functions, 513,668 lines of C, 0 errors; the generated TUs compile to objects. The Fury³ lifter handled Hellbender unchanged.
• Next: Phase 4 (import bridge arg-counts + runtime port with the stubs above), then Phase 5 (extract Hellbender.iso PODs, link, bring-up to flight). See the pcrecomp Fury³ project for the bring-up playbook.