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Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 0
Download 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
Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 0
Download Probably my fave 🙂 This was my second remake – of Ultimate’s 1982 spectrum game of the same name. It was written for DOS, originally, but this version has been ported to run on any version of Windows. Graphics by the lovely Andy Noble, featuring the second appearance of the famous red brick tile.
Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 0
Download Another remake of a Jeff Minter game, with yet more John Blythe graphical goodness. In this one, you basically have to gob at spiders. It was written over a rainy weekend in C/Allegro. Should run on any version of Windows
Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 0
Download Well, this was a kinda joke really 😉 I was in the retrospec clubhouse one day and Graham was slagging me off about coding on speed and, to cut a long story short, I made this stupid boast that I could do a remake in an afternoon. Sadly, the others pounced on me and
Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 6
Download Technically, this isn’t finished, but as it never will be, it was released anyway. I do still have the Blitz Basic 3D source code for this if anyone wants to take it on. Basically, it’s a 3Dish version of Boulderdash/Repton. It was originally going to have 64 levels but, well, my house burned down
Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 0
Download I love this to death. It was written on a rainy sunday afternoon using some graphics left over from Yak Attack – kindly provided by John Blythe. Obviously, it’s galaxians, but it has beautiful synthy sound effects, not to mention evil sheepies.
Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 0
Download This is a remake of ultimate’s 1982 Spectrum bake-em-up. It was originally written to run under DOS, but this version has been ported to run happily under all versions of windows. It was written in a scarily short space of time using C and Allegro. The original was marred by having horrible controls, but
Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 0
Download This was done in 1999 (I think) and is a remake of spectrum game released by Bug Byte. The original graphics were done by Matthew “Jet Set Willy” Smith, and mine have been given a lovely treatment by john Blythe. The game is pretty straightforward but has a reputation for having horrible physics. I
Games Development / October 26, 2004 / John / 2
Download I wrote this in 2000, I think. It’s a windows remake of the Atari 800 version of Jeff Minter’s game of the same name. The original was itself a remake – based on the Empire Strikes Back game for the old Atari VCS (the one where you have to shoot down the walkers using
Games Development / April 28, 1998 / John / 0
I’m afraid I’ve been a lazy bugger, and done absolutely nothing of late. Well, I had a gentle poke about Atic Atac, but that’s about it. There just aren’t enough hours in the day right now……