The Temple of the Mighty Bague

I haven’t done a single bit of remake coding for ages - just got too many other things to do. This doesn’t mean that Dynamite Dan and Wizards Lair are off, by any means - they’re not. They’re just two of the many things I have bubbling away on the stove right now.

So where are they? Well, I have a few rooms of dynamite dan up and running, although I’m still plugging away at fully understanding the original level structure. Wizards Lair exists in concept only at this stage.

Hallo - just a quickie. My Macintosh ports of Andy Noble’s fab remakes are now available here. They should be up on the retrospec site as soon as I get a minute.

I’ve just come across the source code for Linux Lizards on an old ftp site For those not in the know (i.e. everyone), Lizards was the first game I ever wrote. The timestamp on the source code says November 10th 1995 - 11 days before my first child was born. The game was charming in an incredibly bad way and could very well be used as an example of how not to write games. It was written to run under SVGAlib on the Linux console and therefore had to be run as root, via sudo or by making the exe setuid root. Trouble is, it had an utterley stupid (on my part) exploit at the end - a system call to “clear” with no path, basically allowing anyone who could create a file named clear in the current dir to spawn a root shell. Oh dear. I’m older and wiser now

I’m going to port it to run under allegro cos I really REALLY want to see it again! It has knitted monsters!

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An unofficial sequel to Attack of the Mutant Camels, Yak Attack has more in common with Dropzone on the C64. Graham Goring was so incredibly shit at this game that I released a special “Pansy-foo-foo” edition for him. This version is toned down quite a bit (because it was originally really hard). I defy anyone to work out how to gubb the giant spiders Graphics were done by John Blythe.

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My first remake (unless you count a bloody awful game called Lizards for Linux. Splat! is a remake of another 1982 title, this time by incentive software. This was written after I first got into contact with Andy Noble and before RetroSpec was formed. This game is notable for giving Andy’s famous red brick tile its debut in gaming It also has magnificent music by Bjørn Lynne and Matt Simmonds.