When the game producers Tyrian, and then the improved 2000 release of the work, released a full commercial product for free, fans of the shooters immediately began to think about how to make it easier to run the game from DOS on modern computer sets. This gave birth to the OpenTyrian project, which wrapped the original game files in code for normal Windows operation. Graphic improvements have also been made.

In order to preserve the spirit of the original, it was fortunately decided to use two simple options to improve the luminaire. On the one hand, we have scaling to different degrees, retaining large pixels, on the other hand, the same, but combined with smoothing the edges. In this way Tyrian looks a bit like a painted paint, but it certainly does not strike with such archaicism.

It is worth mentioning that the game was rewritten from Pascal to a newer C language. Of course, the game has not changed. We get several modes to choose from, but the fun is always based on our ship's flight upwards and the elimination of more enemies.

In a campaign for the resources collected along the way, the unit is improved, improving the weapon or power generator. The more automatic Arcade option is to collect afterburners on the way to the next bosses. You can also play two.