Paul Robson's SDL Games
Last updated 26th February 2006
Here are some of the GPL Freebies available for you to download and
play. Most of the downloads are 300-500k. All these are Linux builds,
contain KDevelop project files, and don't need anything else to work.
Some have been ported to Windoze, and apparently BeOS and Dreamcast as
well.
There's a nice library for SDL simple 2D use
(sound,surfaces,bitmaps,joysticks,drawing functions and a font) in the
Cruising on Broadway source. There are other versions of it in other
files but that one is the most advanced.
Aklabeth
A remake of Richard Garriott's Ultima prequel.
aklabeth-1.0.tar.gz
Cruising
on Broadway
A simple minimalistic painting game, it's another Sinclair Spectrum
remake. Simple but more addictive than you think.
cob-0.9.tar.gz
Deathchase
3D
Deathchase 3D is a remake of the Sinclair Spectrum game of the same
name. It's a pseudo 3D game based on the light speeder sequence from
"Return of the Jedi" where you have to shoot the bad guys' speeders.
Finished.
deathchase3d-0.9.tar.gz
Football
Manager
A remake of the (in)famous Sinclair Spectrum Football Manager game,
complete with stick-man graphics. This is reverse engineered, so it
should play identically. Finished.
fm-0.99.tar.gz
Foosball
A table football game for 1 or 2 players, different speeds and
formations. A bit silly but quite good fun. Works fine, but might be
tweaked as it's not been out long.
foosball-0.92.tar.gz
OpenGoal
A soccer game which is unfinished and probably won't ever be finished,
cos if I do it I'd start again. Could be useful if you are interested
in SDL.
opengoal-0.1.tar.gz
OpenSpeedBall
(OSB)
A speedball game ; same as above (!)
osb-0.5.tar.gz
Trailblazer
One of those games where you move down a scrolling field into the
screen, and different coloured tiles have various effects. Quite fun to
write, but a bit dull to play I think. The game emerged from a bit of
code I wrote for fun :)
trailblazer-0.9.tgz
The Valley
The game that's probably got more home computer ports than any other -
a twenty year old graphical RPG. I spent ages playing it as a young
chap, it's pretty basic but I just wanted to recreate it - this was
done by working on the BBC Micro version. There's more about this game
at http://www.classicgaming.com/studio2/valley/valley.htm
valley-0.98.tar.gz
Yar's
Revenge
A rather wierd shoot-em-up game that originated on the Atari 2600. It's
more fun than it looks. Just released so might be tweaked.
yar-0.99.tar.gz
Paul
Robson's other stuff
Emulators mostly for MSDOS. Most of them won't work in XP.
There's lots of source if you want them. I've also written other
emulators Psion 2 Organiser, Nascom, Emerson, I like digging out these
old things - I've probably emulated more unemulated machines than
anyone except Marat. AOL address doesn't work anymore.
My web site with all the archived things is now atl
Stuff about the RCA Studio 2 , a simple retro console which was a b***h
to get the ROMS out of . In the end I conned the machine into thinking
my STK200 board was a 1802 CPU. And if you think this is primitive,
look up the Odyssey 1 Emulator what I wrote with David Michel at the
Pong Story site.
http://www.classicgaming.com/studio2
Email me : mailto:autismuk@autismuk.freeserve.co.uk