Udoiana Raunes 3

Udoiana Raunes 3 in search for Indiana Jones 4

A DOS comedy adventure from 2005 about the endless wait for Indy 4 – dug up, ported pixel by pixel and remastered in 2026. Free, in your browser, no install.

Play the RemasterHD art · new music · SPACE flips to 2005 Play the Original (1:1)the 2005 game, every pixel

Best on a desktop or laptop browser with mouse and keyboard.

Heads-up: you seem to be on a touch device. The game wants a mouse (and a keyboard for SPACE) – come back on a computer, or just enjoy the trailer.

The trailer

72 seconds, recorded straight from the game – rendered headless by the same code you play, at the game’s 20 frames per second.

Press SPACE to travel back in time

In the remaster, SPACE flips between the 2026 art and the original 2005 pixels – live, mid-sentence. Even the pixel jokes change: in HD, Raunes stops complaining about being “made of just 100 pixels” and starts bragging instead. Drag the slider:

The location in the 2026 HD remaster: hand-drawn cartoon style The same moment in the original 2005 VGA graphics, 320 × 200 pixels

The cast

None of them asked to be in this game. Hover (or focus) a character to see the 2005 pixels.

Udoiana Raunes in HD: fedora, leather jacket, whip Udoiana Raunes as the original pixel sprite
Udoiana RaunesRetired hero. Formerly 100 pixels, now “1600 % more Raunes”.
George Lucas caricature in HD, bent over his camera George Lucas as the original pixel sprite
George LucasBusy with Star Wars Episode XVII: Galaxy in Flames.
Steven Spielberg caricature in HD with cap and green jacket Steven Spielberg as the original pixel sprite
Steven SpielbergIndy 4? “Perhaps in the next four to eight years.”
Harrison Ford caricature in HD in his Indy outfit Harrison Ford as the original pixel sprite
Harrison FordOver sixty. His back hurts. Where’s his hat?
Sean Connery caricature in HD with a leg in plaster, reading a script Sean Connery as the original pixel sprite
Sean ConneryShooting “Too Old To Die Tomorrow”. Waiting for the right moment to jump.

The story behind

Three school friends from Munich, one geography teacher with a hat, and a movie that took nineteen years.

  1. 1997Munich

    A hero is born on the school yard

    “Udoiana Raunes” is named after our teacher Udo Rau, who looked a bit like Indy whenever he taught geography. The first game – Dr. Raunes saves our high school – is sold at school and does better than the student magazine.

  2. 1998the sequel

    Udoiana Raunes 2

    Bigger, louder, more pixels. Reviews from within part 3 are mixed:

    “It was bad, ugly-pixeled, uninspired, and it finally stuck at the copier!” – a fan in a tree

  3. 2005spring

    Part 3: in search for Indiana Jones 4

    Indy 4 had been “in pre-production” for more than ten years. So we dusted off the old DOS engine and sent Raunes around the world to bring George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery together – and to find a script. Version 1.0 shipped in April 2005, in glorious 320 × 200.

  4. Oct 2005Hollywood

    Mission: real life

    Stefan’s short film Dangerous Animal is nominated at the Hollywood Film Festival. There he shakes George Lucas’ hand and begs for a fourth Indy movie. Lucas’ wife laughs. Lucas says: “Okay, I will.”

  5. May 2008cinemas

    Indiana Jones 4 hits the screens

    Mission completed. You’re welcome.

  6. 2026the revival

    Dug up, ported, remastered

    The original Turbo Pascal source turned up again. It was transliterated line by line into plain JavaScript – same pixels, same palette, same typos, same bugs – and checked against the original running in DOSBox, frame by frame. Then came the remaster: every room, sprite and button redrawn at 4× with AI assistance, three soundtracks, and a live switch between 2005 and 2026.

    ≈ 10,400lines of Turbo Pascal ported 1:1
    27reference moments compared with the DOS original – mostly 0 of 64,000 pixels off
    9,584automated verb × object attempts, 0 mismatches
    98.9 %of all speech lines exercised by tests
    1280 × 800redrawn cartoon art (4× the original)
    3 × 13music tracks: new, remastered 2005, original 8-bit

How to play

Point & click, 1990s style

Pick a verb, then click a person, an object or something in your inventory. Walk by clicking anywhere in the room. Conversations: click an answer.

USETALK TOWALKPICK UPGIVELOOK ATPUSHDETACHOPEN

Stuck? Talk to everyone twice and ask what’s more important than money.

Keys in the remaster

  • SPACEHD ↔ original 2005 view (the pixel jokes change too)
  • Mmusic: new · remastered 2005 · original 8-bit
  • F94:3 aspect correction on/off
  • ESCskip logo and intro
  • +−volume

Good to know

Runs in current desktop browsers with mouse and keyboard. Click once to start – browsers want a click before they play sound.

Savegames and settings stay in your browser (local storage). Nothing is uploaded, there are no accounts, no cookies and no tracking.

The 1:1 version is the 2005 game exactly as it was, bugs and all – just without DOSBox.

Purist? The original 2005 DOS release is still on the old site. Unzip, run raunes3.exe in DOSBox – and “it’s NOT a virus!”

Download the DOS originalraunes3.zip · 11 MB · raunes.com

Credits

Stefan Zwanzger

idea, story, illustration & animation

Zwanzgerfilm

Thomas Wagner

story & programming

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Veit Winkler

music

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2026 revival & remaster

1:1 port, verification against DOSBox, HD art, new music

The Raunes team, with a lot of help from AI.

Special thanks, as in 2005: Udo Rau. Contact: udoiana@raunes.com