g005 -=- Gyrinus II, Son of Gyrinus, by Tom Cooper. v3.6 -=- Platform game where you collect objects to gain points and weapons to defend yourself. Actually two discs so you will need to de-arc it because it won't run from archives. This game really requires 2MB of RAM _____________________________________________________________________________
g016 Invaders = By Tim Peugniez. Space invaders game. NEEDS 2MB. Quite good but not as fast as Yaig Forgotten Time = Simple but exciting sideways scrolling game from AMF The Doomwatcher _____________________________________________________________________________
g017 !Wheelspin = Drive along the road and miss assorted thingies !Starters = 'Consequences' style game !WSearch = 1.77 Composes Word Search puzzles of the sort seen in magazines where you find words hidden in a square *** updated May 97 *** The following are novelties from AMF the Doomwatcher 365 Days = 1.10 A comment on the world for each day of the year !Proverb = 1.00 Displays a new proverb each time you Run it !Error = Whenever the desktop ERROR window appears a voice tells you there is an error - better than a 'beep' !Today = 1.10 Tells you what interesting historical things happened 'today'. Famous births, deaths, interesting happenings etc. As data is just a text file you can edit it or make your own _____________________________________________________________________________
g019 -=- Desktop 'sillies' -=- !Azumith = Limerick generator (clean) !BigBen = Not much of a clock but what a chime! !Boom = Replaces the 'beep' with a roll of thunder !Bullets = Machine gun the desktop !Cooky = Desktop fortune cookie !CrabsCopy = Crabs eat the desktop !Drip = Melting windows! !Fly = Replaces the mouse pointer with a buzzing fly !Fred = No, I don't know why either !Grapple = A variation on 'Deskduck' using an Apple Mac logo !Invasion = Aliens invade the desktop !Kill'Em = Icon bar lemming killer !Madlib = A non-serious program to create 'stories' !MadPro = Can't think of anything to say! !Methane = A bunch of methane atoms flying about !Mites = A line of mites marching around !Mood = A little face on the icon bar. You can choose its expression from a menu to reflect your mood !Pipe = The mouse pointer turns into a smoking pipe if it's not being used !PV_Demo = Exiting Demo from Paul Vigay. Bouncing balls, scrolltext, etc, and all on the icon bar! !PV-Life = From Paul Vigay again, the game of Life - on the icon bar !Rain = Your monitor has developed a leaky roof !ReArrange = Turn your monitor upside down !Reflect = 'Thought for the day' !Sharks = A variation of !Wanda using a shark !Shooter = Shoots up the desktop (ESC to quit) !Swallow = Does exactly that to the desktop !TickTock = Icon bar clock that does more than just tell the time. In fact it doesn't tell the time very well, but who cares? !Invert = Turns all the text upside down !Unvert = Reverses !Invert _____________________________________________________________________________
g028 Two games by Liakat and Luqueman Khan using the Alpine Software games creator. Both are similar sideways scrolling shoot-'em-up's !PowerUp = Single player version !D-Revenge = One or two player game. A bit slower that the single player version but can be played by one person only _____________________________________________________________________________
g043 (Now combined with G041) Mainly simple games, ideal for younger users !Fish (memory game for two players), Hangman (Two versions), !TaiPei, Reversi, (two versions), !Simon, Leapfrog, !TileTrial (Fit shapes on a board), !BallGame (icon bar bat and ball game), !StarTrek, (good standard game), Battleships, !Quartet (Tetris type game), !Archanoid (Simple Breakout game), !Impact (another Breakout game), !MaxGammon, !RubikCube, TicTacToe, !Solitaire, !3DBounce, !FruitMach, !Rocks, !Adventure (Text adventure), Annihilate, Critical Mass, Master War, Super War, Trader, BlackHole, !RubikCube, !Yatzy, !Snake, Cave Run, Zot Empire, !LineOf5, !Worms, !Ladybird (Good Pacman game), Two and three player versions of Tron and !GNUchess PLUS a utility to convert the commercial game Pacmania to work from the Desktop and all the passwords for Repton3 _____________________________________________________________________________
g045 -=- Adventure Games -=- Dungeon Quest = Graphics adventure game. One and two player versions. Includes a game editor to change and make new maps The Great Adventure by Gordon Pickard *** updated Mar 97, now S/ARM compatible *** Collosal Cave Adventure. The very first adventure game ever written. Converted to the Arc by Ray Loades-Bannon The Secret Garden _____________________________________________________________________________
g046 !Follow = A pair of eyes follow your mouse pointer !Jimmy = A little Scot who likes a drink! !Mac = Animated B&W desktop TV picture !Backimage = Like !Wanda. The Arc logo floats around the desktop !Banana = Pieces of the desktop keep falling off !Bullwinkl = !Balls = Ball bouncing around the desktop !Mutant = A plague 'escapes' from its window and spreads !Bounce = The mouse pointer bounces about !Cooee = At intervals a flap opens and a voice says.... !Deskduck = The famous duck quacking along the top of the icon bar !DeskDuck+ = More of the same !DuckHunt = What to do when you get fed up with that #$**@% duck! !BigPointr = A big mouse pointer (what else?) !Heads = Heads pop up with wise (?) sayings !Reverse = Makes the mouse pointer work in reverse !0Friction = \ !Drunk = > More things to mess up your mouse !StayStill = / !Necko = A cat chases the mouse pointer PLUS various other things that pop up and/or march about your desktop _____________________________________________________________________________
g047 !Game_Stkm = Stockmarket game !Splat = Splat bed bugs with your mouse cursor !Splords = !Taipei = Desktop version of !Taipei !Yatzy = Desktop dice game _____________________________________________________________________________
g049 Arcannoy = Breakout style bat and abll game !Dalesk3 = Desktop strategy game !Microcosm = Like the Game of Life but with insects !Patience+ = Patience game with music !Pong = Colourful Bat and ball game !Rubik = RISC OS Rubic's cube !Solitaire = Desktop Solitaire !Wordiz = Two player workd game, hold SHIFT and Y to end !Yaig = Two versions, one will run from inside the archive. _____________________________________________________________________________
g053 !NetHack = Large role playing text adventure ported from UNIX. Takes 1200K min so you need 2Mb. Can be run from hard or floppy as it can be split over two discs Plus three arcade games from David Ramsden !Armagedon = Shoot down the incoming missiles before they get you !Chomper = 'Pac man' game !Intruders = Space invaders style with motherships and shields _____________________________________________________________________________
g059 -=- Games and Novelties for younger users -=- !Dance = A matchstick man dances on the icon bar !IconFilm = Shows a 'film' on the icon bar. You can produce your own as they're just a sequence of sprites !AirDuel = Simple two player 'dogfight' game, not flashy but nice and slow so ideal for children !RockSmash = Fairly standard 'asteroids' game Marvin = The computer makes comments on your commands. Named after the robot in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy so you can guess what they're like !Bar-Ani = Animation on the icon bar, choice of several !BendyFlow = Dancing flowers !DaysLeft+ = Tells you how many days to Christmas !Lite = Simple two player Lite Cycles game !Ludo = Faithful representation of the board game. All players can be either human or computer !Monopoly = Looks like a BBC port but plays OK with all the features of the real game !Pypes = Join up the pipes quickly before the green gunge appears !TheFace = Replaces the mouse pointer with a face which has a variety of expressions !Puzzle = 2.03 Nice sliding block puzzle. A couple of puzzles are included but you can make your own from any sprite file System = Assortment of alternative desktop sprites !Swerve = 0.04 Desktop Light Cycles game for up to four players by Jason Williams !Dominoes = Single player Desktop version of the game. _____________________________________________________________________________
g063 !Mission = Flight simulator game created with the SIMIS toolkit but instead of the usual style this one's set in space! !ShootUp = Just what it says. A good, fast, space invaders game. Includes assembler source code with sprite routines so will be of interest to programmers !Bugs = Not actually a game but a good (non desktop) version of Life with lots of options !Hacker = Game hacker program from Doggysoft. Helps you hack commercial games and give yourself infinite lives, super power lasers, etc _____________________________________________________________________________
g071 !Riscy Game = Another 'Interdictor' style flight simulator using the SIMIS toolkit. This is quite large and when de-archived nearly fills two 800K discs but it will run from archive or from a hard disc _____________________________________________________________________________
g076 -=- These are suitable for younger children -=- !Charlie ^ Based on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Mad Dash ^ Dash across the screen to collect what look look like tomatoes while dodging drips of poisonous rain Hangman ^ Best version I have seen. A bulldozer pushes the letters into place. Keeps the player in suspense until the end MagicWords ^ Another 'guess the words' game Ted Tables ^ Teaches tables Hangman ^ Another very good version. Choice of easy or hard words Pink Mog ^ An educational adventure game. Lots of questions you have to answer on a variety of subjects Quizland ^ Educational quiz game with questions on English language, history, geography, maths and natural science StarMath ^ Very good game which teaches maths. Enough excitement to keep children interested Both versions of Hangman on this disc modified Jan 98. Now S/Arm compatible and words are plain text files. _____________________________________________________________________________
g078 -=- Warfare -=- 'Riscy Game II' from the same author and it's another flight simulator but set over the ocean. A third game in the series is promised _____________________________________________________________________________
g084 -=- Logic and Geometric Puzzles -=- !3DTetris = So you liked Tetris and thought Hextris was hard? Wait till you try 3DTetris !Pentoms = Pentominos is an ancient game played with a set of geometric shapes. The idea is to replace them in the 'box' in which they are supplied. Sounds easy? I assure you it isn't. This was the first version written for a computer and was to be a commercial game on the BBC but it was never released and has been converted for the Arc. by the Author Puzzles = A series of non desktop logic and geometric puzzles by T.Emms. Not very graphically stunning and some are rather difficult. All have solutions supplied in case you don'r believe they're possible BIATetris = I haven't included this before because it's not really a game, just another boring scrolltext with a second rate Tetris clone attached. However people keep asking for it so here it is _____________________________________________________________________________
g088 -=- !DinoSaw -=- Superb platform game from Tom Cooper (Gyrinus, Lemings, Stxy, etc). Described as "A prehistoric platformer... A simple everyday story of a caveman and his chainsaw". Need I say more! This version has a limited number of levels, the rest is available from the Author when you register _____________________________________________________________________________
g092 -=- Riscy Game III-=- The third in the series of Interdictor style flight simulators from Russell McKendrick. This one has three missions _____________________________________________________________________________
g094 Over thirty desktop "sillies", too many to mention individually _____________________________________________________________________________
g100 !Daleth = 1.10 Platform game from AMF. Lots of features, collect diamonds, weapons, jetpack, keys (to open doors) etc. Nice smooth graphics. Each 'Hall of Testing' has a password so you can bypass the bits already completed !Quote2 = 2.40 A sort of 'board game' where you answer multiple choice questions on quotations to move forward. Now the questions are in the form of text files so it's a LOT easier to write your own. This game could be considered for educational use. _____________________________________________________________________________
g102 -=- All these games are suitable for younger users -=- !MissileC = Missile Command game where you have to shoot down the incoming missiles before they destroy your cities !Wallaby2 = Wallaby Wrestling Federation Championships. Two to six players. Make your wallaby bounce on your opponents head to win. much improved version of the game (previously called !WWF) !BombPanic = Catch as many of the falling bombs as you can in the bucket before you eventually miss one !Creepie2 = Guide the 'worm' around and score by 'eating' various objects while not hitting the edges of the screen !Bungle = Simple text adventure ported from the BBC. Not too demanding and a good introduction to adventure games !Wire = Guide the 'hoop' along the wire !Ludo = Different from the version on G059 but again any number of players up to four and they can play each other or the computer !BlackJack = Desktop game for up to four players, any of whom can be the computer. Has a few minor bugs that I'll try to fix when I have time, but works reasonably well !WallBall = A straightforward 'breakout' style game !Mastrmind = A version of the popular game from Nicholas Metcalfe !GoingGone = Enhance your mouse skills. Move around the 'maze' and grab the fruits which appear before they fade away _____________________________________________________________________________
g103 -=- More 'desktop sillies' -=- !Biorythms = Program to display biorythams. Some people might say it's a serious program but I think this is the right category for it !Bouble = Makes your windows blow bubbles !Bounce = Very interesting idea. Simulates a piece of elastic with a series of balls threaded on it. You can drag it out of line with the mouse, release it, and then watch it bounce about. Doesn't sound much but fun to watch !CycleCol = Just cycles all the colours and makes the desktop really wild. Wear sunglasses! !Executor = Program by Dave Thomas which imitates those 'zapper' boxes that people who drive Capri's with furry dice in the window always have. Makes a variety of noises !Globe = Puts a spinning globe on the icon bar !Insult = Every now and again, when it feels like it, this program pops up a window which, err... well... insults you! !Insults = A stream of insulting phrases in a window. You can enter any name for the person you want to insult but the default is Jeremy Beadle, which seems appropriate !Invaders = Your desktop is infiltrated by Space Invaders which try to hide behind the windows !Juggler = A program that tries to teach you how to juggle !KangaKoe = What looks like a hedgehog on a pogo stick bounces along the icon bar while a mouse (?) runs around in a cage !Locomo = An oldie, but still good. The latest version of the great train robbery acted out above the icon bar. Must be seen !M5 = Four extra flashing pointers around the normal pointer. No, I don't know why anyone would want to do this, but why would any sensible person want any of these programs? !Mouse = A mousetrap for your mouse pointer !Snow = A 'snowing' backdrop. Only works properly in standard size modes !XmasIcons = Puts Christmas decorations on all your windows and icons FPower = Draws little flowers all over the desktop (even the Author, Ben Summers, admits it's pointless, but so what) MoviPoints = A series of programs which produce different pointer shapes for RO 2 _____________________________________________________________________________
g104 !Bloxed = Tetris variant by Steven Singer. Has features like a two player mode, 'power' blocks, bombs, a 16 ton weight that removes three columns of bricks when it lands, etc, plus various 'nasties' at the higher levels !Dream = A sort of scrolling 'if it moves, shoot it' game. Surprisingly fast considering it's written in Basic !MoonQuake = A large meteor has struck the moon close to the lunar base and your job is to go into the underground caverns that make up the base and clear the rockfalls. There are various objects to be found and used !Arka-II = Another 'breakout' type game !Buggies = You have to guide the 'buggies' around and collect things, etc. (I think!). No instructions, so you'll have to find out about it for yourself _____________________________________________________________________________
g105 !Stacker = In this game you 'push' objects about to move them to the correct places. Doesn't sound very exiting but, as usual, there are things in the way, traps, and 'treasures' which boost your score. Very playable. Complete with a game editor so you can create your own screen !3DMine : 2.03 A 3D version of the old Minesweeper game by Andrew Garrard. Needs a minimum of 2Mb. Very difficult! Now works on RPC !KingOut = Simple sliding block puzzle !Slides = Another sliding block puzzle but this one uses an animated picture !Triang = Triangular solitaire. No further explanation needed !PeggedOut = A good desktop solitaire game with a selection of Boards with varying degrees of difficulty _____________________________________________________________________________
g106 -=- Desktop sillies and games -=- !ArcWolf = An explosion !DeskBug = One of the few 'sillies' are worth a second look. A strange 'man' walks about the desktop and around your windows. If you move one he falls off!. Even the closedown is fun !Dy_Stort = Your desktop is melting! !Neko = The little cat that chases your mouse pointer !No_Glue = The stuff that sticks your windows to the backdrop is coming unglued !Point = Mouse pointer subject to violent fits !Sort = Demonstration of sorting. The only trouble is it sorts the screen RAM, which is a bit upsetting !Splat = Someone is throwing tomatoes at the screen !Command = Simple 'missile command' game !Amazing = Explore the 3D maze !Revenger = Desktop sound effects !Scroll2 and !Scroller = Two desktop message scrollers PLUS - !Piano, !Man, !Gunshot, !Machinegn, !MouFol, !Sheep, !Smiley, !String, !Sunny, !Twirly, !Whoops _____________________________________________________________________________
g107 !Angband = 1.0 Adventure game like Umoria but (I'm told) better. Runs in a desktop window with 'character' graphics so not state-of-the-art, but with this type of game that's not what's important !Minesweep = 1.41 Nice desktop 'find the mines' game by Keith Drakard. One of the best I've seen and very addictive !Quiz = 1.11 Non desktop trivia quiz by Martin Rose. The questions are DATA statements in the program but if this was changed it would probably have some educational use !Willy = 1.4 Port of Jet Set Willy by Russ Juckes. Still fun to play. Includes cheat module !Miner = 2.2 Another Spectrum port from Russ Juckes - Manic Miner. Now includes a cheat module. _____________________________________________________________________________
g108 !Quest = 1.02 Quest for the Pendragon text adventure. This version consists of the first four parts, the remainder are available on registration ROM = Realm of Madness. 210 location text adventure by Stephen Mander !Excalibur = By Chris Dawson. Rush around various screens and collect the diamonds etc. while avoiding nasties. Complete with screen designer. A bit of screen flicker but quite good !SpaceInv = (Subtitled 'Not Space Invaders Again'). By R.Chasmer. You've probably seen it all before but that doesn't mean it's not worth one more go !Ghouls = Platform game by Julian Havercroft. No instructions and I haven't worked out what you're supposed to do _____________________________________________________________________________
g109 !Battle = Two player player 'Space Battle' !Bumpers = 'Bumperoids' game, shoot the asteroids before they splat you !Creepie = Guide the snake to eat the acorns without crashing into the walls !NightShot = Skeet shooting game !Ubiquetus = Flashy but not very good 'gravity' style space game !BlackJack = Uninspiring desktop version but works OK !Splat = Imagine you are holding a hammer (represented by the mouse pointer) and you are 'splatting' ants or similar small bugs with it. As the game progresses the 'ants' get livelier and dodge better. Non-existent game strategy and zero graphics but VERY satisfying !Splords = Another two player 'space battle' game !StockMkt = Stock market game. Buy and sell shares and try to make a killing _____________________________________________________________________________
g110 -=- Mostly 'board' type games -=- !Taipei = Superb desktop version of this ancient Chinese game by Alex Hopkins. Very addictive and worth the price of this disc on its own !Chain = Chain Reaction game for two players !Cluster = Simple but difficult game where you grab territory by placing three 'counters' adjacent to a vacant square !Explode = Good single player version of the standard board game !IconMatch = Good 'pairs' game using the sprite icons !Merrills = This is quite a good 2 player version of the game !Reversi = Another standard !High/Low = An old favourite. There's a gambling element added to this desktop version !Turnabout = Difficult board game where you score by placing counters in a line and changing the colour of your opponents counters. There are three players, two of them are the computer !Connekt_X = Not too brilliant example of the game where you drop counters into columns and try to make lines. You can set various options to make it easier or more difficult Core Wars = Good version of the computer strategy game with debugger, instructions and example programs !Square = Another strategy board game where you place counters to form squares to gain points. Challenging _____________________________________________________________________________
g111 -=- Old favourites revisited -=- !JSW ^ 1.43 Jet Set Willy by Darren Salt. Complete with four games (the original, Jet Set Willy 2, Willy's House of Fun, and Hyperspace) plus a screen designer so you can make your own. There are lots JSW clones but this is the best. Just as much fun after all this time as it was on the old Speccy! !Hatris = Thought you'd seen every possible variation of Tetris? This desktop program has you stacking different shaped hats instead of those boring old blocks !Pipe = Another oldie - join up the broken pipes Risiko = Desktop version of Risk !GravWars = Good version of the 'gravity' game _____________________________________________________________________________
g112 -=- For Breakout and Tetris fans -=- !Arkanoid = Good version with lots of levels, multiple balls, tough bricks, assorted falling thingies, etc !Penetrat = Penetrator. Another good version, with screen designer !SpaceBall = No frills but who needs them? Nice sound effects that really make you feel you're hitting them bricks - better than all that background music !ArcBall = Another straightforward version, includes screen designer !Brix = Probably the simplest ever version for the Arc. Less than 7K of code and doesn't even use the mouse! Can you remember when all PD games were like this? !Tetris = Straightforward non desktop game by A.Hersee !Tetris 2 = Another uncomplicated version with no Author's name. No frills but plays well !Quintet = It's that game again - one or two player version from from Jean-Paul Hamerton _____________________________________________________________________________
g113 -=- Games for non-pacifists -=- !Tanks = Very good version of this popular game. Several levels with lots of enemy tanks to shoot at (if they don't get you first!) !Flight = Straightforward flight simulator game created with flight sim toolkit !Command = 'Missile Command' game from Aaron Timbrell !ShootUp = Alien zapper from Linton Dawe !WimpyInv = Crude graphics, unexciting sound, but a great classic 'space invaders' from Keith McAlpine !Shootem = Do just that !ShadoFire = Zap as many aliens as you can before they get you !pUpD = 'Pleb up, pleb down'. Having spent a while killing everything that moves it's time to try to save some. People with lemming tendencies are flinging themselves from a skyscraper and you must 'bounce' them to safety on your trampoline. Crude graphics, -great fun. _____________________________________________________________________________
g114 -=- Adventure games -=- !CastlGame = The instructions say 'wander around the castle and collect as much gold as you can' !Dream = 'DreamScape' 0.21 a graphics adventure by Adam Davis using ALPS. !Dunjinz = Nice role playing adventure from Tor Houghton !Hack = Another version of NetHack. This is different from the version on B053. I don't know how much the game has been changed, I can never stay alive long enough to find out !Ularn = Your daughter has a strange disease and only the great magician Polinneaus who has retired to the caverns of Ularn can save her. Game written by Ari Pitkanen !SugarCube = A 'mini adventure' by Gary Fitton. The Golden Sugar Cube is the answer to all your problems! _____________________________________________________________________________
g115 !Castles = Move around the castle, crushing monsters with barrels or dropping things on them, collect the treasures. Good game from Mike Williams !Splodge = Another 'collect the diamonds' game from Andrew Wood. Great graphics and a few nice individual touches. Includes a good screen designer !Arc-Xbd = Very good 'Repton' type game !Gauntlet2 = Maze game. No credits or instructions !Gremlins = Pac Man clone from Brian Tucker with original game code from Aaron Timbrell !Ballonvng = Move about the maze while being pursued by nasties and burst the balloons _____________________________________________________________________________
g116 !Cricket = 1.35 Good limited overs cricket game from D.Carter. The graphics aren't sensational but they're adequate. You can load and save teams and create your own. Lots of variations so it's moderately realistic. Versions for VGA or standard monitors !Golf = Quite good golf game from W.H.Varley and various others. Up to 18 holes and from one to four players !3DBounce = A sort of single player 3D squash. Very fast with an ARM3 !Risk = 1.01 Comprehensive non desktop version from Mark Sizer !PlanetWar = Three games in one package (Annihilate, Planet War and Master War). No instructions but I understand these are all 'standard' games on other platforms !Ztrax = Nice variation on the 'Pipes' theme using sliding blocks. Complete with screen designer _____________________________________________________________________________
g117 !Staka = 1.50 Ian Palmer's very good (but !%$#@y difficult) 3D version of Tetris !Aargh! = Guide the little thingy around various screens without touching anything. Doesn't sound like much but, like all the best games, a simple idea, difficult, but addictive !Trynth = Space desktop strategy game from David Jones !Twiz = Another simple game idea that's very good. Thingies (twizzles) are eating away the screen and can only be killed by luring them to one spot. They can be guided by shooting away part of the screen or firing a pellet which you can 'explodge' into a ball that they can't eat !Sparky = Good version of the old game where you trap the 'spark' in a cage by drawing lines across the screen !Navigator = For no apparent reason you are flying a spaceship around Chicago, through the sky above and through the cellars. Very difficult MemoFlex = 'Pairs' game from Moonlight Graphics with a unique feature as the 'tiles' can be in up to five layers _____________________________________________________________________________
g118 -=- Games for younger users -=- !Knockout = From the people at Lunchtime magazine, the nicest version I've seen of the game where two players fling things at each other over a barrier. You set force and elevation of the throw and there are nice touches like wind 'blowers' and 'gravitators'. Although it's a two player game it's good enough to be worth playing against yourself !10iss = 1.05 A version of the 'first ever' video game by Nicholas Metcalfe. Several variations which make this more than just the simple bat'n'ball game !Bomber = 1.01 Another oldie from Richard Whincup !Breakout2 = Comparatively gentle version !CarRace = Guide your car along the road. Crude graphics but fun !CaveRun = Fly your whatever-it-is through the cave without crashing into the walls or anything else !DogFight = Two biplanes fight it out !OutForce = Shooting gallery game. Get the baddies as they appear at the windows before they get you !PowerQues = 'Quest for Power', another cave run game !Springy = Make Springy jump over various objects !TronRemix = Good version of Lightcycles !Chase = Chase objects about the screen with your mouse pointer. Doesn't sound like much but it's actually quite good _____________________________________________________________________________
g120 -=- Games Cheats -=- A massive collection of cheats, maps, hacks and enhancements for - Iron Lord, Lemmings, Man at Arms, Thundermonk, Powerband, Interdictor, Twin World, UIM, Wonderland, Nevryon, Inertia, Aggressor, Apocalypse, Ballerena, Battle Tank, Bughunter, Caverns, Dropship, E-Type, Mission Control, Moon Dash, Quazer, Red Shift, Rotor, Terramex, Blood Sport, Last Ninja, GBA, Stunt Racer, 2067BC, Air Suprem, Aldebaran, Guile, Lander, Mig-29, Zarch, Chocks Away, Chopper Force, Arc Soccer, Blowpipe, Crisis, Fervor, Fireball, Jet Fighter, Lost Temple, Mad Professor, Opus, Revelation, Sim City, Tertis, Top Banana, Trench, Pac Mania, Bug Hunter, Cataclysm, Chuck Rock, James Pond, Nebulus, Talisman, Zool, Cycloids, Pon!, Babel, Hero Quest, Pipie Mania, Populus, Rockfall, Repton, Alien Attack, Axis, Blitz, Conqueror, Parandroid, Provocator, Quark, Quazer, Xenon2, Gyrinus2, Swiv. - Plus ZIP, an Infocom code interpreter, and and probably quite a few more that I've missed _____________________________________________________________________________
g121 -=- Games Cheats -=- Another collection of Games cheats, hacks, etc for - Dungeon, Golf, Pandora's Box, Umoria, Chopper, Cataclysm, Chocks Away, Ibix the Viking, Nevryon, 2067 BC, Lemmings, Gods, Twin World, Wonderland, Sim City, Enter the Realm, Phaethon, etc. - Plus two separate interpreters for Infocom games and the Archimedes Cheat Manual from Dave Lodge _____________________________________________________________________________
g122 -=- Another disc of 'sillies' -=- !Brolly = When it's up, it's raining, when it's not, it's not !Face = A little face in a window - completely useless! !Face+ = Press keys to change the face - young kids love it !Fungus = What happens if you don't keep your desktop clean !Gravity = Ever wondered what holds your mouse pointer up? !Muncher = That %$#@ PacMan has escaped and will eat anything !OhShit = Fed up with that 'beep' when there's an error? Want a sound that more accurately reflects what you feel? !OpenSezMe = Just to let you know that the filer is opening a window !Plopper = I KNOW it's just another one of those things that bounce about the desktop - but this one's cute !Spec_Ld = For all those ex Spectrum owners who need an occasional reminder of how bad it used to be !Stars = A starfield in a little window - elegantly useless !Subs = Variation on the old Wanda theme !Thingy = You'll think nothing is happening, but wait a while until it strikes! !Yow = A wise and highly intelligent 'though for the day' from Garfield in a desktop window !Player = Just a little program to display 'sprite films' in a desktop window. Several films are included !RandomErr = Are you one of those people who gets worried if nothing has gone wrong for a while? Do you find those cryptic error messages that applications display inexplicable? This is exactly what you need _____________________________________________________________________________
g123 PTT : Prehistoric Time Trip. A large text adventure in three parts. Billed as 'RO 3 only' but it works in RO2 if you load the Font Manager and are prepared to put up with some minor problems. Unlike some PD adventures this one has a decent parsar and the game plays very well !Moses = As Moses you have been selected to lead a mission to free all the slaves in Egypt. You have to collect all the commandments, Plagues and People. Actually a fairly straightforward 'platform' game !Final = Space trading game. You send out spaceships to colonise planets, mine ore, and send it back to Earth to get money to buy oxygen and supplies, without which the colonists will die. An old idea and not the best version I've seen but it works quite well. NB - The program needs around 400K of System Sprite space which has to be set manually _____________________________________________________________________________
g124 -=- Five maze/platform games -=- !Balvanic = Apparently inspired by Boulder Dash on the Atari so it's a Repton type game. Some nice touches like the character impatiently tapping his foot if you don't do anything for a while. Complete with screen designer. Recommended !Bug = Guide the whoosit around and collect the mushrooms. Some problems with the Tracker module used (I think) on the RPC but it works without music !MrPea = Nice little platformer from Graham Savage !Panic = Panic the Fridgehog by David Fletcher. All resemblance to another game with a similar name is, of course, purely coincidental !Sprog = Collect the bones and ignore the thingies. Thoroughly screws up everything so be prepared to switch off and on again after playing! _____________________________________________________________________________
g125 -=- Games suitable for younger users -=- !Bang = Another version of 'Chain', 'Explosion' etc !Draughts = Guess! !INvADER = Simple game where you shoot the whatevers coming at you across the screen !Pigeons = Dogfight game for two players !Snake = Guide the snake around and eat the mice !Poacher = Really a thinly disguised Space Invaders game !WarofWor = Two player game where you try to shoot the other before he gets you !Airline = You are chairman of a small airline and have to run it to increase your assets to the point where you can take over British Airways !Bowls = Bowls game (surprise!) !Fruits = Non desktop fruit machine gambling game !Million = Try to make a million in the magazine publishing business !Shove = A sort of board game for two players !SnakePit = 2.00 Move around the snake pit and try to eat all the eggs before the snakes escape and eat YOU. New version has improved graphics (the original was rather crude). Nice game to play from Darren Salt. !Sweeper = Another desktop Minesweeper game !Trader = Another business simulation for one to four players. You move your ship from port to port carrying cargo. Looks like a BBC conversion (Mode 7) but plays OK _____________________________________________________________________________
g126 !Ashekva = Text adventure game from AMF. As Ashkeva Alyedin, a country peasant, you wake to find yourself trapped in a strange, magical, monastery, populated by evil monks. Over 360 rooms and more than 260K of text. Runs either outside the desktop or in a desktop window. All the usual AMF logic is applied to devising the various traps !DigOut = Nice Repton game from Carl Shaw. Collect assorted object, kill the baddies by dropping rocks on them, etc. With screen designer !ARV = You have been a bank robber but your last job went wrong. Luckily you managed to send the loot to a friend in Rio de Janiero.... !RuralAv = Rural Adventure. You have just escaped from a mental hospital and you have to try to make your way to the harbour to escape the country !Blkheart = Castle Blackheart by James Watson. Rush about the castle, kill baddies, collect treasure, get keys to open doors... !Skimbard = This seems to be a desktop text adventure creation tool. Absolutely no instructions and it comes with only a very short demo adventure _____________________________________________________________________________
g127 -=- The Tom Cooper Collection -=- By popular request. I have been asked to produce some 'compilation' games discs so I will begin with the products of the well-known games programmer Tom Cooper. This set comprises - Dinosaw Gyrinus 2 Lemings Stxy TBVG PLUS the best Archimedes 'breakout' game -- Impact-II by Andy Piper All programs are archived and some need to be de-arc'ed before they can be used _____________________________________________________________________________
g128 -=- The AMF the Doomwatcher Games Collection -=- The games from the prolific programmer. Includes Some of the best adventure games written for the Archimedes. The set comprises - Ashkeva Alyedin Daleth Dimension Forgotten Time Fortress of Time The KORC trilogy (Kingdom of Relative Concepts) Sorcerer's Domain _____________________________________________________________________________
g129 !Boink = Shoot the thingies (Boinkeroids) which are bouncing about and trying to squash you. Multi level !BurstPipe = I know it's not original but quite a good version !Caves of Confusion ^ Sideways scrolling shoot-anything-that-moves game from Geoff Holland. Very good quality. This is actually the 'demo' version and for a two disc version with lots of extra features you send £5 to the Author !Fall = First version of this game I've seen on the Arc. A lot of small balls are held up by a grid of letters. Two players take turns in taking away a letter and the one who releases most balls wins !FPTetris = Flying Pig Tetris. Not the most wonderful version but OK !Tetris2 = Reasonable desktop version !Genister = Platform game with the usual monsters and things to collect !Exeria = Escape from Exeria from Soft Rock. Pac Man type game !Opus = I thought that this game was already in the library but if it is I can't find it !AutoMaton = Good desktop version of the game where you pile up the counters until they reach critical mass when they explode and convert your oponents counters to your colour. From one to four players, any of whom can be the computer _____________________________________________________________________________
g130 Two flight simulators from Neural network design. Both created with the SIMIS toolkit and both with biplanes !AllAtSea ^ Fly your biplane among the islands and try to stop supplies being transferred by boat !Trech ^ Fly your biplane to destroy the trechery that has let the enemy planes occupy the neighbouring airfields _____________________________________________________________________________
g131 !WarJet ^ By David Woods. Another flight simulator using the SIMIS toolkit but set in Scotland (an armed rebellion by the the Scot Nats'?). The scenerio is a 100Km square section which is, as far as possible, real, containing Loch Lomond and Ben Lomond, the Campsie hills, Carron resovoir, Forth and Erskine bridges and many major roads and buildings. Glasgow and the Clyde are very real places. A pleasant change from the usual flight sim game with a desert and a bunch of pyramids. Creating the world was obviously a major project, and simply flying around in it is the best part of the game. You have all the usual guns and rockets, and there are things to shoot at and things that shoot back. If you want action there are better games, but if you want a flight simulator rather than a shoot-em-up this is the best PD one I've seen !AntiGrav = One of those games where you have to 'hover' your jet while moving around a scrolling maze. Unlike most it's actually playable! Includes screen designer !Airball ~ Help! Even the Author admits that this is almost impossible. No proper instructions (I don't really know what the object is), but as it's a conversion I would hope that someone will understand _____________________________________________________________________________
g132 !BigBang ^ Actually a demo of the commercial game from Psycore. However, it's a very good playable demo, (although as the full game comes on two discs it's nowhere near complete), so I've put it here instead of in the commercial demo section !OddBall ^ Great multi-level game loosely based on the 'breakout' theme. You use your bat to bounce the ball against blocks. The most obvious difference is that the play area is irregular, and instead of the usual bat moving across the bottom of the screen with a line of bricks at the top, the bat is much magnified in a window which displays only a small part of the play area and it can be moved up and down as well as from side to side. At the right of the screen is a small display of the entire play area and you use this to work out where bat, ball, blocks, and other items are. Very addictive with lots of features _____________________________________________________________________________
g134 !Astrophel ^ Billed as 'a desktop space strategy game' by David Jones. Unfortunately, although there is extensive documentation, it is unstructured and mainly concerned with explaining how to create the scenerio, the data structures, the user interface, etc. and is a bit thin on how you actually PLAY the game !Cover ^ 1.10 Desktop game for one to three players by Keith Drakard !CrazyMine ^ Crazy Paving Minesweeper. Complex non-desktop version of the minesweper game by A.W.Garrard !StrmSweep ^ Another variation on Minesweeper from A.W.Garrard. This time the mines move! !Hypnos ^ Desktop 3D maze game by Raffaele Ferrigno. You have to collect various objects to let you escape !Scotty ^ Jet Set Scotty. No need to bother with descriptions, with a name like that you can guess what it is! !WolfEd : An editor for Wolfenstein ASWAP files from Peter Smith. Lets you change graphics or sound but not map files _____________________________________________________________________________
g135 -=- Puzzles -=- !Awari ^ Non-desktop game from Martyn Ewers !Cribbage ^ Desktop five card cribbage from P.Fairbrother !Enigma ^ Engel's Enigma. Very difficult puzzle from Andrew Ayre. If you're fed up with Rubik's Cube try this !Kabale ^ Patience type card game from Olav Reinert !KPatience ^ Desktop King Albert Patince from Darren Salt !Mahjongg ^ Nice (though non-desktop) version from Tim Browse. Plays very well !OutWit ^ Two player tactical board game from Andrew Ayre !Scrabble ^ Desktop scrabble from Phil Love !Sevens ^ Extremely addictive card game from Gary Lee. Actually a four-handed game but the computer plays the other three hands. Highly recommended !Solitaire ^ 1.11 Desktop Solitaire by Keith Drakard. Lots of features, tutorial, playback, etc !StaksII ^ Complex card game from Moonlight Graphics !Towers ^ Patience-like card game from Danius Michaelides _____________________________________________________________________________
g136 -=- More puzzle games -=- !4Square ^ Interesting (and very difficult) desktop puzzle from Darren Salt !Beakers ^ Non desktop game where you shuffle water between two beakers to isolate the required quantity in one beaker. Sounds simple but actually quite difficult !Boxes ^ Two player game from Fraser McFarlane !Crossword ^ Billed as 'Haslam's Magnificent Crossword Designer'. What more can I say? !CTetris ^ Challenge Tetris from Darren Salt. Two player non desktop game !Cypher ^ Desktop game based on a Windows (bleeuuch!) game !Hanoi ^ Desktop Tower of Hanoi from Darren Salt. It's an ideal version if you're a bit short sighted because the window is scaleable !JigWord ^ 1.60 A type of clueless crossword puzzle !KingOut ^ Sliding block puzzle !Othello ^ Desktop version by Dave Forth !Pelmanism ^ Non desktop but quite good version of the old favourite by Mark Gillman !Sim ^ 1.10 Two player desktop game by Keith Drakard. I'm not going to describe it, except to say it's not easy! !Squiggle ^ Two player game. You add pieces in turn to the end of the 'road' and try to make your opponent run into a wall !Thieves ^ Forty Thieves. Desktop single-player card game from Graham West !Triad ^ Desktop single player board game with no instructions from Philip Beresford. I *think* I've worked out how to play it so you should be able to _____________________________________________________________________________
g137 !Mosquito ^ Nice WWII scenerio SIMIS flight simulator game from Chris Mottram. Set over some islands off the west coast of Scotland. Also includes good briefing notes and drawings and data on your aircraft and the enemies you may meet !GNUChess ^ 3.1 A much later (and larger) version than the one on B041, although the graphics are still rather crude. However, full 'C' source code is included and extensive documentation _____________________________________________________________________________
g139 !Baz ^ Fire a coin from your piggy bank and try to make it hit Baz, who is hovering above you hurling abuse and other substances. That's just the first level. Then it starts to get difficult! Not state-of-the-art but an amusing game from A.James !Invasion ^ Fairly conventional Space Invaders game from David Baker and Andrew McDonald !Racer ^ Unexiting game for one or two players. You race around a track trying to avoid crashing or hitting other cars !SheepRace ^ A sort of gambling game from Quintin Parker. I think the name gives you a clue to what it's about! !Trek ^ 1.30 Based on a BBC version of the standard Star Trek game by T.Kennington and rewritten and updated for the Arc by Les Hurst and Alex Hopkins. Not spectacular but one of the nicest versions I've seen !XmasGame ^ The rheindeer are on strike and Santa has had to hire a plane to make his Christmas deliveries. The problem is that the presents are coming down rather fast and not too accurately so you have to catch them _____________________________________________________________________________
g140 GTAC ^ Graphics text Adventure Creator. New program from Andrea Gallo. As the name sujests this lets you write adventure games with text and pictures that run in the desktop. It comes with a simple example game. The program is Shareware and there are a couple of restrictions on this version, but they don't stop you writing and running your own games Walker2 ^ This is by Nicholas Kingsley and seems like a good game. Lots of instructions, but he forgets to mention exactly what you're trying to do and how you do it! Mapper ^ 1.00 Again by Nicholas Kingsley, a program for designing game maps, intended to help you create a map for a game you are writing _____________________________________________________________________________
g141 !3DMaze ^ By John Fletcher, a straightforward game where you have to try to find your way out of a 3D maze and also look for treasure. The C source code is included, and this is simple and well commented, so it could be expanded into a much more comprehensive game !Bounce2 ^ Rather difficult game where you have to bounce your ball around various screens !Fall ~ I've seen lots of versions of this game on the PC. It's for two players, there is a screen made up of random letters with rows of balls at the top. Each player in turn selects a letter, which is then 'taken away' so the balls can fall down, and you score by getting balls to fall to the bottom of the screen !GHZap : Useful utility from Quintin Parker which intercepts those naughty "UpdateMC" calls usd by incompetent programmers which will (probably) crash your computer !GryThnder ^ 1.04 Grey Thunder from Colim McEwan. Sideways scrolling shoot-em-up. Yes, another one, Boring, eh? Well, this time there's a difference. This version happens entirely in a miniature window on the icon bar! !MastMind ^ 0.02 Rather nice desktop Mastermind from James Harvey !Robocatch ^ A 'cut down' version of the full game with fewer levels etc. Seems to be a fairly standard shoot up !Rtf_Pro ^ Another Tetris clone, but quite good. Non desktop and meant to be a two player version, but never completed so only one player is 'active'. Not as flashy as some but plays well !WolfEditr ^ 1.00 An editor for Wolfenstein 3D for HD users _____________________________________________________________________________
g142 -=- Games for kids -=- !Alpine ^ Vertically scrolling downhill ski slalom !Bunnies ^ Try to zap the bunnies as they run accress the screen !Froggy ^ A sort of 'space invaders' variation. Instead of shooting down aliens your froggy has to catch the flies with his tounge !Fruit ^ Non desktop fruit machine. The instructions are not too good and the game isn't brilliant but there are lots of gambling options which can make it interesting !Horses ^ Multi-player gambling game !Lemonade ^ Not really a game, a simulation of running a lemonade and ice cream stall. In fact it's a complex business simulation where you have to buy stock, set prices, etc !ProHorsie ^ Another horse racing/gambling game !Ringlets ^ Connect shapes together to form circles !Roller ^ One or two player racing game. Guide the balls around the track !Slapper ^ Splat the wasps! !Sosta ^ Rather good tool for teaching keyboard skills. You shoot down the bombs by hitting the correct key to fire at them, but the keys keep changing, and there's not enough time to look at the keyboard! !Sparky ^ Simple but quite good maze game _____________________________________________________________________________
g143 High Risc Racing demo. The cut-down demo version of the commercial game. At first it looks like a totally uninspiring 'top view' car racing game with unimpressive graphics, but then you realise the racing is not the most important part. What you have to do is win races to get prize money which you then use to buy extra bits for your car, so it's more complex than just driveing a car around the track. This demo version has most of the features of the full game, but only a limited number of levels and cars to choose from. However it does give you a good idea of what the full product is like and is playable _____________________________________________________________________________
g144 !Blimp ^ Move round the screen and eat the pies without setting off any bombs !BrickABat ^ Another 'breakout' game !Duck ^ Move your duck around and eat the fish while avoiding the skulls !Giana ^ The Great Giana Sisters, a nice platformer converted from the C64. Works on RPC with a few minor glitches !Roller ^ Straigtforward platformer from Julian Havercroft. You need to turn off the cache with an ARM 3 !Woody ^ From Geof Holland, jump over (or shoot) various thingies which zoom at you and collect the gold nuggets !Railway ^ By M.S.Draper, not a game, it's a simulation of building and running a railway. As well as the main program, which can be played by from one to four players, there are tools for you to create your own railway networks. You decide where to build, when to buy rolling stock, move trains, make contracts to collect and deliver goods, etc _____________________________________________________________________________
g145 -=- Text adventure games -=- !Aftermath ^ By James proctor, set in the 21st century after a nuclear war. Apart from other dangers that will stop you completing your quest, there are brain-damaged victims of a plague that attack anything they can find and devour it (this means YOU!) !AMoria ^ Archimedes Moria - yet another port by Graham Toal !Crown ^ Simple text adventure for beginners by Linton Dawe. You have to return the stolen Crown of Power to the castle and claim your reward !Nerd ^ By Karl Hawkes, who describes it as 'the adventure game for nerds'. Your aim is to solve a murder which happened seven years ago during riots in the City of London (which left the city derelict) and kill the murderer! !Spheres ^ Spheres of Chaos by Chris Grant. Your quest is to locate the seven spheres, created by a wizard and scattered over the Kingdom, to prevent the evil king from getting then and using their power Trellis ^ Actually an adventyre game interpretter by V.Hudd of Soft Rock Software. This makes it easy to write text based adventure games. As well as comprehensive instructions (which assume an understanding of adventure games and elementary programming) there are two sample adventures, !Crystal (The Purple Crystal of the Heavens) and !Pyramid (The Sacred Pyramid) _____________________________________________________________________________
g146 -=- Shoot-'em-up games -=- !Aliens ^ 2.01 Simple 'shoot everything' game by Mark Hiller !Blitz ^ Ballroom Blitz. Thinly disguised (but quite good) one or two player variation on the Space Invaders theme by Neil Pawson !Chopper ^ Vertically scrolling shoot-everything-that-comes-at-you from Reter Reeves-Hall !Missile ^ Missile Command clone from J.Hornell !NotSpInv? ^ Not Space invaders Again from Paul Hallam. Well, it looks like it to me! !NxtGen ^ Not terribly brilliant (!) sideways scroller !Photon ^ Vertically scrolling game by Ben Carter. First you have to dodge the mines, then catch and shoot the mothership _____________________________________________________________________________
g147 -=- Games and puzzles -=- !5x5 ^ Extremely difficult desktop puzzle by Tim Gladding. You have to 'set' all the squares in a 5 x 5 grid, but each time you toggle the state of a square four of those surrounding it also change !Analyser ^ Not a game but a program by Matthew Wilcox to analyse the scores obtained in a bridge game !BackGammn ^ 1.27 Desktop Bacgammon by Duncan Cobb !BlkQueen ^ Non desktop card !BlokSnook ^ Non desktop sliding block puzzle !C4 ^ Desktop version of Connect 4 by Chris Stretch with lots of features !CATtris ^ Cat Tetris, a non desktop variant where the 'blocks' are various shaped items of interest to the watching feline !Clock_Pat ^ Non desktop Clock Patience by Chris Payne !Crag ^ Desktop dice game for 1 to 4 players by P.Lurcock !Dad ^ Sliding block puzzle (no, I don't understand the name either) !Enigmar ^ Complex word puzzle by Mark Davies. Similar to the 'word square' puzzles that appear in magazines but you can choose the style and difficulty !Euler ^ A version of the Knights Tour by Pete Godsall !gnuGo ^ 1.1 The game of Go from the Free Software Foundation, written by Man Li !LetDrop ^ Letters drop from the top of the screen and you have to zap all except the ones that correspond with the ones along the bottom. Not easy! !LoShang ^ Nice Taipei/Mahjonng game from D.Pedder !Lucas ^ Difficult game by Momen Nostri !Patience2 ^ Non desktop patience game !Poker ^ By Raffaele Ferrigno, Play against the computer !Puzzl ^ Very difficult puzzle by Richard Forster !Sen_Wrang ^ Senior Wrangler, a patience game by Tim Havenhand _____________________________________________________________________________
g148 -=- Adventure games -=- !Arion ^ Large and complex Dungeons adventure game from Mike Goatley. Need multisynce/VGA monitor !Hack ^ Yet another non desktop version of Hethack, this time from Al Slater !Hermes ^ Hermes the God's messenger, a desktop graphics/text adventure written using GTAC (see G140) !MicroAdv ^ A text adventure creator/compiler from John Fairhurst. Includes example adventures !MysLand ^ Mysterious Land, a VERY text adventure from Tom Godber _____________________________________________________________________________
g149 -=- Games for diamond hunters -=- !AcidPac ^ Pac Man game from Aaron Timbrell !Blob ^ By David Johnson. Move around and get the diamonds while avoiding bugs. Unexciting graphics but plays well !BombaMan ^ Run around the maze and drop bombs to blow up rocks and baddies, by Robert Titman !Fred ^ Rather nice maze game from Nicholas Marriott !Nasty! ^ Sir Nick Nasty in Blocksville. As usual, grab the diamaonds !Shuggy ^ Another maze game by David Johnson !Pushy ^ If you are fed up with collecting diamonds this nice little game from R.Williams will make a change. Push the blocks around to expose the crosses marked on the floor. Not as easy as it sounds _____________________________________________________________________________
g150 !Spitfire ^ Spitfire Fury by John Haddon. As the name suggests this is a flight sim game where you fly a Spitfire in 1939. There are twelve missions plus a practice mission. Scenery is quite good and varied _____________________________________________________________________________
g151 -=- More flight sim games -=- !Forlon ^ A rather standard SIMIS game !ProjectX ^ Another one from Colin McEwan. As usual you have to shoot up the enemy ground forces while avoiding flak and enemy fighters FinalFlight^ Multi-mission game with a choice of aircraft from Mike Jackson _____________________________________________________________________________
g152 -=- Infocom -=- This disc contains Infocom interpreters and compilers plus some games !AUInfocom ^ An Infocom interpreter by Edward Poor which runs in a desktop window !Infocom ^ A port of Infocom Task Force 4.01.2 interpreter by Brian Scattergood. InfoToolkit Disassembler and Dumper for Infocom files by Mark Howell !Inform ^ An Infocom assembler by Graham Nelson !Zip ^ Another interpreter by Edward Poor PLUS the following adventures - Advent Curses Dejavu Sampler1 _____________________________________________________________________________
g153 !Agresion ^ 2.15 By Graham Crockford, who says it was inspired by 'Gorillas' on the PC. It's a two player game where you fire projectiles at your oponent. With a patch for RO2 !BatlDroid ^ Battle Droids by Colin McEwan. Just zap everything in sight! !Crossbolt ^ 2.00 Not too brilliant 'space invaders' game _____________________________________________________________________________
g154 !Atomix ^ By Terje Folmo who says it is based on the game of the same name on the PC. However, he doesn't tell you much about how to play although it does have a screen designer !Balloon ^ I think you are supposed to burst the balloons but no instructions !Force ^ Looks like some sort of multi-player shoot everybody type game, but again no instructions, just a screen designer !Elevator ^ Horrible, nasty, things are running rife in the lift shaft of the new office building. Kill the nasties and try to get to the top of the lift shaft and rescue the Princess -=- Four discs of 'sillies' and novelties -=- _____________________________________________________________________________
g156 !Author ^ The Author says this program tries to write a ten chapter novel, in fact it generates large amounts of rubbish !B and B ^ Beavis and Buthead - animation in a desktop window !Backwards ^ Reverses the mouse !Bee ^ Non desktop animation of a bee !BeWorthy ^ You'll have to prove it !Bloing ^ Non desktop 'funny noise' generator !Cack ^ By Jon Ribbens, generates cack, that is, err, rubbish !Chameleon ^ A small window floats around the desktop, behind the windows, and tries to take on their characteristics !ClickTock ^ Generates a backdrop of faces and one of them will tell you the time !CokeCan ^ A coke can dances to the music (if there is any!) !ColChaos1 ^ Changes the desktop colours !ColChaos2 ^ As obove but *keeps* doing it, this could give anyone a headache! !Corrupt ^ Draws all over the screen !Crawl ^ Rather good. A small window 'crawls' around the desktop !Creeper ^ Draws quite nice 'creepers' !Cropper ^ Your very own crop circle! !DeskScrll ^ Lack of vertical sync !Dotty ^ Draws dots! !DropMake ^ Just draws pretty picturs made up of radiating lines !DubBounce ^ Just bounces two balls around !EgoTrip ^ Tells you how wonderful you are !Elevator ^ Elevates the mouse pointer !ElizaII ^ A rather good desktop 'Eliza' !Etch ^ An Archimedes version of that woderful Amiga Etch-a- Sketch program !Eternal ^ Non desktop graphics displays !Fidgit ^ A fidgity mouse pointer _____________________________________________________________________________
g157 !Birds ^ Desktop birdsong !Cookies ^ Desktop Fortune Cookie program !Granite1 ^ Just draws a screen that looks like a block of granite !Granite2 ^ Ditto (but looks more like a grey cream-cracker to me!) !Hmmm ^ To quote the Author 'opens directories with a childish and quite revolting noise' !ICanDoIt ^ Hear Holly from Red Dwarf say 'I can do it' every time you open a directory !Insanity ^ Ditto Rimmer 'are you insane' !OhSmegIt ^ Ditto Lister (guess) !Ice ^ Makes the mouse pointer skid about !Introvert ^ Shrinks your windows! !Italian ^ Destructive bouncy ball !Jumble ^ It does too! !kwadra ^ I'm not quite sure what this does !Leave ^ Or this! !Melting ^ But this does exactly what the name implies !Metro ^ Draws lots of lines that look like the Paris Metro (or perhaps it's Moscow, or the London Underground...?) !Migrate ^ Migrating desktop !Monkeys+ ^ If an infinite number of monkeys type for an infinite time they will produce the complete works of Shakespeare. This program just MIGHT take a little time to produce intelligable results! !MouFol ^ Just a few balls following the pointer around !Murphy ^ Displays random examples of Murphy's Laws at intervals !NaNaNaNaN ^ Takes the %$*^@ when there's an error !NoSignal ^ Simulates an untuned TV (useful, eh!) !OhYes ^ A John Major emulator (but more intelligent) !OpArt ^ Flashy non desktop graphics _____________________________________________________________________________
g158 !OngOng ^ Silly noise when you open a directory !Peardrops ^ Just draws 'em !Philosoph ^ Woderfully wise random sayings !Plague ^ All over the desktop! !Pleasure ^ When you open a directory the Cat from Red Dwarf tells you how he gives such pleasure to the world !Poppiy ^ Bouncing ball etc. !Powder ^ Nice graphics display - looks more like a firework than the Author's description !Praise ^ Isn't it all wonderful! !ProveToMe ^ You will! !Reminder ^ Just reminds you how truly wonderful you are !Repair ^ What do you do when the mice in the screen chew through the wiring in one of your windows and its' lights go out? Why, call the Window Repair Man !Reporter ^ Just pops up to say 'Hi' !Ripples ^ Flashy graphics display !RocketPtr ^ Mouse pointer shaped like a rocket ship for kids !Rope ^ Draws multi-coloured circles when you press MENU !Runner ^ Mindless violence (so try it!) !RussDemo ^ Have you ever tried one of those Demos that tell you your computer doesn't have enough RAM or something to run it.. !ShootIt ^ Opens directories with a band Shorties ^ Lots of (very) short Basic graphics programs !Shrink ^ Shrinks the screen !Shrink2 ^ Ditto but also confines the mouse !Snoopy ^ Somebody's watching the mouse pointer !SoNice ^ Draws pretty (!) pictures !Turd ^ Desktop dustbin that makes a rather rude noise when you dispose of something !Warp ^ Graphic display - guaranteed useless by the Author _____________________________________________________________________________
g159 !Screenie ^ Lots of pretty patterns !Slicer ^ Slices up the desktop !SpinOnIt ^ Hear Rimmer from Red Dwarf give you interesting advice when you open a directory !SmegHead ^ Again from Red Dwarf - guess what this one says! !Urgency ^ Ditto but tells you there's an emergency !SoSoppy ^ It is, too, but it tells you how lovely you are !Splurgers ^ Several variations on the same theme !Star ^ Quite nice graphics !Tortoise ^ Sort of 'neighbourhood watch' for desktop sillies. Patrols the desktop and kills the interlopers! !TRoll ^ Totally useless animated tiolet roll. Obviously the product of a diseased mind (but fun!) !UniCycle ^ Nice animated uniycle !Voices ^ Some alternative system 'beeps' !Watch ^ Variation on the eyeballs-watching-pointer theme !Windows99 ^ Now you too can have all the wonderful advantages of M*^$%soft Windows on your Arc. - slows down the computer, uses lots of memory, unintelligable error messages for no apparent reason.... !XXX ^ Nothing to do with beer or 'dirty pictures' - it just seems to slap assorted icons all over the backdrop !Yow ^ Sort of desktop Fortune Cookie program _____________________________________________________________________________
g160 -=- Games and novelties for kids -=- !Bounce ^ Make the ball bounce over the holes or it will burst on the nail at the bottom. !Face ^ Make a funny face by selecting from various features (and perhaps putting them in the wrong place). !Finger ^ Pointing finger mouse pointer !FunPark ^ Simulation of running a funfair. I think you have to buy rides, set prices, etc. No instructions, so I had trouble working out what to do, but experience suggests that any seven year old would probably not have any difficulty. !FunFaces ^ Rather more sophisticated program from Mike Williams for making up faces. This one is a desktop app, but unlike !Face you can't put the bits in odd places !GWord5 ^ Simple 'guess the word' game where you have to 'type' the word by clicking on a keyboard !NoughtEx ^ Desktop noughts and crosses, play against the computer. !OddPets ^ Draws some VERY weird animals. !PestCtrl ^ Splat the rats and various other small furry objects that appear. Very satisfying! !Pootah ^ Probably the most revolting set of icons available (but I quite like the dinosaur floppy disc icon). Created especially for younger users. _____________________________________________________________________________
g161 !PushyII ^ Improved version of the game on G149 by R.Williams where you push the blocks around to expose the crosses marked on the floor. This is not just a later version, it's a lot harder and MUCH bigger. When de-archived it takes about 2.4Mb of disc space, and you will need 2Mb of RAM to de-arc it, so you will require either 2Mb + hard disc or 4Mb to run it from the archive !Ballz ^ A variation on the old Pipes theme by David Johnson. You guide a ball to the exit by changing its path with 'bends' which you manouvre into place with the mouse. In later levels there are various objects that make things more difficult _____________________________________________________________________________
g162 -=- Puzzles and logic games -=- !Baka_Chak ^ Very good desktop board game. You control 20 goats and the aim is to get them onto the board. Unfortunately there are four tigers which try to eat the goats (actually by jumping over them, rather like draughts). Nice graphics and fun to play. !FindWords ^ Non-desktop word square puzzle. as well as a few sample puzzles you can also make your own. !Quadris ^ Non desktop Tetris !WhichWay ^ 1 or 2 player game where you move around a grid picking up numbers which either add to or subtract from your score depending on their colour. Not easy. !Word_S ^ Desktop word search program by Mike Smith. As with his previous programs it's Shareware, but there are no proper instructions, so although it looks like a good program you are going to have to work out how to use it without any help from the Author. !X-Word ^ Crossword compiler from Mike Smith. Same comments apply as !Word_S. _____________________________________________________________________________
g163 -=- The Great Tetris Collection -=- This is for all you fans of the falling blocks (and other assorted things). A huge collection of tetris-like games, nearly 4 megabytes when de-archived. Nearly all work on the RPC. 3DTetris G084 BIATetris G084 Bloxed G104 CATtris G147 Columns CTetris G085 CTetris G137 FarBeyond FPTetris G139 Hatris G111 Hextris G039 MarBlocks G164 Quadris G162 Quartet G043 Rtf_Pro G141 Staka G117 Tertis D124 Tetris G112 (two) Tetris2 G129 WhipTris G069 WARNING - This collection can be dangerous to health/employment/exam results. Under no circumstances should any Tetris fan be allowed near it unless there are at least two days before they need to leave the house. Concerned friends/relatives should stand by with large pots of black coffee and a blanket to cover them when they eventually collapse. (If this happens do not switch off the computer - they may be in the middle of a game and wish to resume when they wake). _____________________________________________________________________________
g164 !ATC ^ 1.01 Air Traffic Control by Mike Smith. Not really a game, a simulation of controlling civil aircraft and guiding them in to land at several airports using your radar screen. Some features are not yet implimented and others will only be available in the 'full' version (ie. after you pay - so it's NOT Shareware). *** updated Dec 96 *** !Blup ^ 1.10 By Andrew Ayre. A good puzzle game where you can play against the computer, the clock, or another player. Clicking on a ball makes it change colour, you have to get as many of the balls as possible to change to a certain colour. Unfortunately this affects the colours of adjacent balls. Complicated and addictive. !Bombz ^ 1.11 Multi-level game by Tony Houghton. As the name suggests you have to move around each level getting rid of the bombs. There's also a level designer !FileWars ^ Rather strange game from Adam Richardson where two armies of your files fight each other. Don't ask me why, or how the winner is decided, but it might help while away a few idle minutes.... !MarBlocks ^ Non desktop but quite good (and not too hard) version of Tetris by A.Wood !PollTax ^ Sixty level game by Quintin Parker where you push blocks, collect money to open doors, etc. Ignore the name - it has nothing to do with anything! _____________________________________________________________________________
g165 !Bumper ^ By Andrew Titman, race the ball around the track collecting flags, bouncing off walls and trying not to fall in the water. Twelve tracks and a practise mode. !Cycling ^ By Andrew Titman. Cycle race game where you ride against two computer riders. Lots of options like length of track, quality of opposition and number of stages. !Flood ^ By David Johnson, position the blocks to direct gushing water to safety. With level editor. !Gravity ^ By David Horman. You've probably seen this before. You fire missiles at your opponent but they are thrown off course by the gravity fields of the planets. However, this is the best version I've seen with much nicer graphics. _____________________________________________________________________________
g166 !Blobby2 ^ By David Johnson, a scrolling 8 level platform game. You have to reach the flagpole at the top of each vertically scrolling level without being overtaken by the screen. !Goop ^ By Andrew Titman. The royal family of Goop blobs have sent Goop on a 15 level mission to reclaim all the stars which have been stolen by the evil scorpions. Works on a RPC with Game On !Miserly ^ By Robert titman, a platform game where you have to search the tax offices, prison, a car park and the Royal Mint to try to find your lost money _____________________________________________________________________________
g167 !Pharaohs ^ The Pharaohs Secret Tomb, another game from Generation Design. Rush around the tomb and try to clock up points before your energy runs out. !SeaTrek ^ Another game from generation design where you are under the sea searching for gold coins while your oxegen is slowly being used up. !Brix2 ^ I know it's an oldie, but this is a good Breakout type game from Mike Williams. Lots of features and the screens are just textfiles so you can design your own very easily _____________________________________________________________________________
g168 !Blitzer ^ OK, so it's not state-of-the-art, but it's still a pretty good shoot-em-up. !Swarm ^ Highly acclaimed game from Matthew Bloch. All sorts of robots and aliens are out to get you, plus there are space mines which you have to dodge. You have to collect the diamonds to get to the next level. Very addictive and has excellent graphics. Only problem is it's BIG, around 1.9Mb. It can only be fitted onto an 800K disc by compressing it as a ZIP file, and unless you have the full version of SparkFS you will need either a hard disc or you can JUST run it from a RAM disc with 4Mb of RAM. For this reason this disc is available either on 800K or 1.6Mb, and as the 1.6Mb version has Swarm compressed using ArcFS you can run it from the archive. _____________________________________________________________________________
g169 -=- Games for kids -=- !Astroball ^ Nice two player tennis game by Nick Rice !BeatemPE ^ Two player beat-em-up game where you have a choice of characters !Cannon ^ Shoot down the planes with your cannon before thay dive on you !FLOP ^ Good 'pairs' game from The RAJ :Laser2000 ^ 2 to 4 player Lite Cycles game by Thomas Simmons !Mines ^ Buy and sell goods to try to keep the space mines going !Photon ^ Vertically scrolling game from Ben Carter. First you have to dodge the mines, then catch and shoot the mothership !PSST ^ Great Desktop Paper/Scissors/Stone game by James Andrews !RadRacer ^ Two player racing game. Guide your car around the track !Snake ^ Nice Snake game by Peter Blake. Collect the goodies and don't run over your tail !Starbase ^ Try to zap the aliens as they zoom towards you _____________________________________________________________________________
g170 -=- Puzzle games -=- !4Patience ^ Card patience game !Farbeyond ^ Desktop Tetris !Goo ^ Nice desktop 'pipes' style game by Andrew Ayre !Hneftafl ^ Two player desktop board game by Stuart Whitehouse !NIM ^ A very old (but still difficult) game by Bill Hensman !Othello2 ^ Desktop version by Y Twll !Quarto ^ Two player board game by Keith Theobold !Queens ^ Try to place 8 queens on a chess board so no queen is attacking any other queen !Shuvem ^ Sliding block puzzle !Shuzzle ^ Variation on the sliding block puzzle theme by Ian Palmer !Slide ^ Yet another sliding block puzzle by David Johnston !Spots ^ 1 to 4 player board game by Patrick Hinrichs. Too complex to explain briefly but difficult and addictive !Stax ^ Dominoe patience game !Words ^ Guess the word game !XReferenc ^ Addictive game where you have to guess all the letters in a grid at the bottom of the screen _____________________________________________________________________________
g171 Asylum ^ Cut-down version of a multi-level platform game by Digital Psychosis !Bomber ^ This seems to be a 1 to 4 player game where you have to move around a maze, using bombs to remove obstructions, but no instructions at all !CyberWar ^ Forget the blurb - it's a zap-everything-that-moves shoot-em-up by Darren Windsor !Xor ^ Superb multi-level desktop maze game by John Hedley. I seem to remember this game being a great hit on the BBC many years ago _____________________________________________________________________________
g172 -=- Adventure and Maze games -=- !Dungeon ^ Fairly small and simple game using the Trellis interpreter. DungeonDuo ^ Two player game by Paul Hallam where you rush about the corridors killing baddies. Includes an editor. !KrytenTXT ^ Nice text adventure game by Robert Titman. Loys of rooms and interesting objects but a reasonable knowledge of Red Dwarf would be an advantage !Pratt ^ Fake Pratt by Mark Randall. The pop group Fake Pratt have vanished only 20 minutes before they're due on stage and you have to find them. Short game and the solution is provided. !ShugTExp ^ By David Johnston, Shuggy The Explorer. Shuggy's village is plagued by attacks by orcs and he decides to stop them TRSW ^ The Rather Silly Way, written by Andrew Williams and converted to the Arc by James Cort. No description necessary, the name says it all. _____________________________________________________________________________
g173 !AstroSmsh ^ Shoot-em-up by GEK with lots of bells and whistles including a weapon shop where you can buy extra goodies !CyberWar ^ By Darren Windsor. There IS a plot, but basically it's a one or two player shoot-everything-that-moves game. !Positron ^ Straightforward Space Invaders game by Jonathan Tate _____________________________________________________________________________
g174 !BallonInv ^ You fly a balloon, dropping bombs on enemy tanks etc. and fighting off attacks by planes and missiles !Hedz ^ Very strange! The heads of assorted school friends and teachers are bouncing around the screen trying to squash you and you have to zap them. _____________________________________________________________________________
g175 !Eclipse ^ Another (quite good) space invaders game from Chris Hakes. Lots of levels and features. !Gunship ^ Sideways scrolling shoot-em-up by Paul Hallam. Lots of complicated controls and is supposed to need two people the fly the gunship, a pilot and a gunner, but anyone with three hands or under the age of twelve should have no problems. _____________________________________________________________________________
g176 -=- Flight sim games -=- !Seaplane ^ Instead of the normal jet fighter it's a WWII scenario where you are flying a seaplane in the Mediterranean against German U-boats and troopships. !Tornado ^ Conventional SIMIS game !X-Wing ^ Another interesting variation by Neal Plews. This time it's a Star Wars scenario. _____________________________________________________________________________
g178 !Firebolt ^ Game by Ian Waugh for 1 to 4 players. You make your way through levels by dropping a bomb to blow holes in walls (getting out of the way rapidly). Lots of levels and a screen designer !Frak ^ Platform game by GEK productions. I seem to remember an old game on the BBC and Electron by this name, and it looks a bit familiar too.... !Kick-Off ^ 2.9 Football Manager game by Mark Davies. You have to do all the things you would expect if you were running a football team, buy and sell players, look after your stadium, and you can even borrow money to carry out improvements. Once the season starts you have to decide on tactics and look after morale. This is a complicated program, and a complete season will take several hours (probably not all in one session). A 'must have' for all football fans who are sure they could do a lot better than all those !$%*ing useless managers *** updated Sep 97 *** _____________________________________________________________________________
g180 !Emotions Cut down demo version of RPC only game by GEK productions. No instructions, just a list of key codes, but it looks like one of those games where you dash about avoiding baddies, collecting coins, etc. I suspect it's quite good, but I don't have time to find out what to do by trial end error _____________________________________________________________________________
g181 !NoWindows ^ Get your own back on Bill Gates for Crimes Against Humanity and ease your frustrations by zapping the Windows® logos !PacAttack ^ Rather old but playable version of the game !Pharaohs ^ The Pharaohs Secret Tomb, by Generation Design. Seek out the tombs and find the goodies, etc. !Powerball ^ Very good desktop 'breakout' by David Ramsden. Very playable _____________________________________________________________________________
g182 !Bombs ^ By Steven Kramer, 3D puzzle game where you move around, blowing up the bombs, without exploding yourself !DeathBall ^ 1 to 4 player game by Thomas Leonard. Move your 'ball' about various levels collecting coloured bars. Includes instructions for creating your own levels !OgresLair ^ By Kevin Martin. 1 or 2 player game. Explore the ogres lair, find him, and kill him. Only it's not quite as simple as that (well, it wouldn't be, would it!) !Splodge ^ By David Johnson, quickly try to get to the exit of each level while collecting bonus points, using various objects to help you, and avoiding the baddies _____________________________________________________________________________
g183 !Blue ^ Blue Thunder by D.Birch. Vertically scrolling shoot-em-up !Hive ^ Very good space invaders game by Matthew Bloch and others. Lots of features and includes C source code !Stib ^ 1.03 Good and addictive game by Julian Brown. A sort of cross between Breakout and Tetris. You 'shoot' things at the wall to make sets of three, when you do they vanish _____________________________________________________________________________
g184 !Avian ^ Help the intergalactic space-pilot/budgerigar rescue the hostage budgies captured by a cat. A sort of vertically scrolling Cave Run with extras by Matt Lucas !Hopper ^ 1.00 Yes, I know you've seen it before, but that doesn't mean it's not still fun. Very good version of the classic game by Simon Foster !PlantEat ^ 1.2 Man Eating Plants by Paul Hallam. Try to stay alive dodging the monsters by hiding behind the plants. _____________________________________________________________________________
g185 -=- Puzzle games -=- !7Patient2 ^ Non desktop unexiting 7 card patience game by P.Kerr !FiveDice ^ 1 to 3 player desktop dice game by Michael Ellis !Hearts ^ This is some sort of card game by Nick Rice who says he's not going to give any instructions because he's too busy. How considerate! !MindTrap ^ Very difficult desktop puzzle game by Darren Salt. You have to line up all the blocks of the same colour by rotating/swapping sets. You can save/resume a game at any time (very useful!) !SokoBas ^ 1.4 By Arjan Opmeer, desktop version of the game where you have to shove the blocks scattered about a room to the storage area. Obviously this isn't quite as simple as it sounds !RSI ^ A similar, and I think better, version by John Knight. The levels are plain text so you can make your own and you can save games _____________________________________________________________________________
g186 !Chaos ^ A good description. The general idea is to shoot at just about everything and score as much as possible before the inevitable happens !RHFT ^ Rock Hard Fluffy Thing by Mike Goatly. Collect the diamonds while avaoiding the Nasty Things. Good game, with a map designer _____________________________________________________________________________
g187 !Risk ^ Another version of the popular game, this time by Steve Bosman Ayra ^ Highly acclaimed Shareware graphical text adventure with interactive puzzles from Chris Egan and David Taylor. Over 330 locations and 800 objects. This program is too big to fit on a single 800K disc and it won't run from an archive, so you need either a HD drive or a hard disc to run it. _____________________________________________________________________________
g188 !PinWizard ^ Pinball Wizard by Mike Pool. Non desktop game. No instructions but although it is implied that the flippers should work I can't make them. !SuperFE ^ Super Foul Egg. Good tetris type game for from 1 to 4 players. Lots of features and nice graphics. _____________________________________________________________________________
g189 !ArchiF ^ Archi Fighters. A rather unfinished beat-em-up game. Works on the RPC but the players tend to vanish off screen from where you here the sounds of your fighter having the *&^$ knocked out of him !Inferno ^ Playable demo of a multi-level game from Paradise where you have to try to damp down the reactor before it explodes. Lots of assorted gimmicks etc. !Invaders ^ Faithful desktop reproduction of the original Space Invaders !StarBase ^ Missile command type game by Graham Rawbottom _____________________________________________________________________________
g190 (Previously G075 and G085) !CTetris ^ Colour Tetris, desktop version !Kalaha ^ Extremely difficult desktop puzzle game by Graham Jones !RISCLife ^ Desktop Life by Henrik Pedersen. Works on RPC but only in Mode 12 !War ^ Nice desktop throw-bombs-at-the-enemy-castle game by Henrik Pedersen !dtTaipei ^ Good desktop version by Graham Jones with 999 repeatable games in addition to the normal random setup !Pipey ^ By L.Drapes, join up the pipes before the ball reaches the end. Nice version, easy to play !Maze ^ Simple 3D maze program by Steven Haslam !PolySaw ^ Desktop jigsaw by Graham Jones !Taletta ^ Vertical scrolling shoot-em-up by AMF, now modified to work on RPC. !Umoria ^ 5.5 Mines of Umoria. A highly complex dungeons game with lots of documentation PLUS hacks and utilities for Interdictor II, Mad Professor, Mig29, No Excuses, Pipemania, Rotor, Holed Out and Nevyron _____________________________________________________________________________
g191 (Prev. G004 and G039 - most of these suitable for younger children) !Fall Guy ^ 2 player sliding block game !Bomber ^ The old favourite again !3d-Life ^ Exactly what it says! Core Wars ^ Two computer programs fight to the death !VIC-20Em ^ VIC 20 emulator, doesn't do much but neither did VIC 20 (my VIC-20 did do a lot and I still have it - Aaron) !DeskWar ^ A tank drives about the desktop and shoots at things !IconMatch ^ Good 'Pairs' game using RISC OS icons !IconMix ^ Mixes up the filetype icons - very confusing !Follower ^ A little worm follows the mouse pointer !Asteroids ^ Dodge the rocks !Pipey ^ Lay pipes to catch the ball !SprayCan - Desktop graffiti !Frogs ^ A frog bounces along the bottom of the screen !Keyboard ^ Play tunes on a desktop organ keyboard !Darts ^ Good two player darts game !Cat ^ Animated pussy in a small window !Swinger ^ Swings mouse pointer to point in the direction it's moving BrickRun ^ The opposite of 'breakout' games. Stop the bricks and form a wall !Billion ^ Desktop text adventure with over one billion combinations so more than a billion different games !Hextris ^ Tetris type game but with hexagonal shapes so more difficult !Executor ^ Several interesting sounds you select by 'pressing' a button in a desktop window !SPatience ^ Superior desktop patience that plays a variety of different games. Also has undo, replay etc !StarFight ~ Space invaders type game by N & C Westley !Tensile ~ Interesting novelty. A shape is drawn in a window and you 'pick up' a corner with the mouse. That corner then follows the mouse pointer about and the rest of the shape tries to follow as if made of rubber bands. Hard to describe, fun to watch !NewSprt2 ^ Alternative desktop icons Plus a module to use the game Saloon Cars with multisync monitors and cheats and hacks for Elite, Man at Arms, E type, Chocks Away, Alerion, BattleTank, etc.etc _____________________________________________________________________________
g192 (Previously G006 plus G009) !TBVG ^ Drive your tank (?) about and try to shoot the thingies before they shoot you. Good game InYerFace ^ Two player 'Light Cycles' game with extra features Zorf ^ Two player game. Shoot your opponents' spaceship and dodge the planets !Horses ^ Simple horse racing/gambling game. A bit slow but kids like it !Racer ^ Car racing game with a difference - it's played on the icon bar sprite -=- Three separate adventures by AMF the Doomwatcher -=- KORC series = Three text adventures, KORC 1, 2 and 3. Set in the Kingdom of Relative Concepts. An unusual world, full of strange characters and objects. The games have a variety of very strange plots! Fortress of Time ^ Text adventure set in a strange fortress with over 400 rooms. Initially much of the plot is unknown. Many of the inhabitants lie dead after a previous conflict and your objective is to discover the past and destroy the evil that still lives within the fortress Dimension = 3D game where you move about collecting yellow tiles, some of which are hidden behind locked doors. These can only be opened by collecting the keys. Others are guarded by balls which can kill you. A screen editor is provided _____________________________________________________________________________
g193 (Previously G007 and G048) !Lemings ^ Superb clone of the commercial game from Tom Cooper. I assume the name has been changed for copyright reasons but having read the instructions it might be a spelling mistake !Domain ^ Sorcerers Domain, loosely based on Repton by AMF. Many strange puzzles requiring logic to complete. Three editors can be used to design screen sets, define new characters and define how the sprites interact with each other and alter their characteristics _____________________________________________________________________________
g194 (Previously G068 and G098) Impact II ^ Very good 'breakout' game with editor Meteors ^ Zap the meteors before they get you SkyPilot ^ Shooting game, needs cache off on faster machines Bang ^ 0.06 Mines game from Cy Booker Speedline ^ Tron type game for two or three players SuperSkate ^ Jump over the holes !ArchieMan ^ Good desktop PacMan by Robert Armes and Mark Syms !EOR ^ Guide the 'hero' round the desktop maze and find the coins and the door to the next level !Connect4 ^ Popular desktop puzzle !Maze ^ Icon bar maze game !Shanghai ^ Desktop version !ShootEmUp ^ By Lee McGinty, space invaders on the icon bar! !Wizard ^ This is an early, short, version of Wizard. The full version is now on disk G008 PLUS two editors for the commercial game Caverns and one for Nevyron _____________________________________________________________________________
g195 (Previously G008 plus) !Wizard = Full version of game previewed on disc B068. You rush about trying to collect various items while dodging the assorted thingies that are attempting to kill you. Not state-of-the-art but very playable !Styx ^ 3.0 Good game from Tom Cooper. Now actually has some instructions!!! !WR_Demo ^ World Racing, cut down version of a car racing game from S.Boham. This version is single player, only 3 levels and no sound _____________________________________________________________________________
g196 !Botkiller ^ By Artex Software who wrote Exodus. 30 level game where you have to kill all the insane robots, solving puzzles collecting objects and avoiding various things that are trying to kill you. _____________________________________________________________________________
g197 !Arya ^ Graphical text adventure with interative puzzles. Over 330 locations and 800 objects. Registered version has 16 bit graphics on the RPC and 8 bit on others. This version contains a reduced number of 8 bit graphics !FarWest ^ Desktop graphical adventure by Faederico Gallo created using GTAC. Unlike the usual Dungeons & Magic scenario this one's set in the Wild West _____________________________________________________________________________
g198 !Firebolt ^ 1 to 4 player game by Ian Waugh where you have to drop bombs and blast your way through a maze. With screen designer !FantasyF1 ^ Fantasy Formula 1 by Stephen Hawkins. Choose your team and follow the races while you try to win the F! world championship !RailPro ^ Superb simulation of traffic control of a railway station by Jos Keijzers. You let trains arrive, guide them to a platform, and direct them to the correct exit lines. There are several ready-made stations and timetables, and an editor program for you to make your own. If this sounds rather boring (nothing to shoot, no bombs, etc) you couldn't be more wrong. It's VERY difficult to keep everything moving on time. _____________________________________________________________________________
g199 -=- Games suitable for younger users -=- !Battle ^ Battleships game !Columns ^ Tetris game but quite gentle and easy to play !Dot_Dot ^ Join up the dots and make a picture !Jigsaw ^ Very good jigsaw puzzle with several jigsaws and lots of options to make it hard or easy !Matchit ^ Join up the tops and bottoms of the figures !Minefield ^ Simple desktop Mines !ProDarts ^ Good darts game !Shooting2 ^ Shoot the birds as they fly past !Starfight ^ Simple two player game !Voyager ^ Fly through the rings of the planets to gather data _____________________________________________________________________________
g200 !Plig ^ By Chris Egan. Collect all the goodies in each level before the time runs out !Thrust ^ By Richard Atterer, another (but good) clone of the popular oldie _____________________________________________________________________________
g201 !Wavelength ^ I think this is a single level demo of a game by GamesWare, but it's difficult to be sure because they're too silly to say so. Anyway, it's playable and quite good. _____________________________________________________________________________
g202 !Frogger ^ Hopper clone. Fairly good version, lots of levels with increasing difficulty. The graphics aren't brilliant but it plays well !Bouncy ^ Great little game where you have to 'bounce' a ball along platforms to change their colour without falling into the abyss !Cairo ^ By Evan Lewis, explore and loot the dungeon _____________________________________________________________________________
g203 !STG ^ Save The Geeks. Only you can stop the evil Snerds from killing the nice little Geeks. !MrDoo ^ Good maze type game by S.Kett _____________________________________________________________________________
g204 IYAToV ^ It's Yet Another Tetris Variant. Blocks drop anto a see-saw and you have to try to keep it balanced. This version now modified to work on S/ARM !Xylon-Pro ^ One or two player Space Invaders style shoot-'em-up _____________________________________________________________________________
g205 !Joop ^ Platform game from GEK. _____________________________________________________________________________
g206 !BunnyRace ^ Great platform game from Philip Mellor. Help Elvis the Bunny catch the evil Alfonso who's nicked his cabbages. _____________________________________________________________________________
g207 !CavrnDuel ^ 1.22 Two player game by Graeme and Steven Scott. You have to search the caverns to find weapons, armour and food before meeting your adversary !JawWars ^ Use your toothbrush to zap the evil germs before they destroy all the teeth !Lunar ^ 3D walking shooting game by Graham Bell. OK, so it's not Doom, but it's a lot cheaper !TankDuel ^ RPC/A7000 only game by Graeme Scott. 2 to 4 players drive their tanks about the landscape, hiding behind things and shooting at their opponents !TDT ^ Straightforward but difficult top-view tank game. Simple wire-frame graphics but lots of features _____________________________________________________________________________
g208 Wizard Apprentice demo. 3 level playable demo of the RPC only CD game. To get it onto a floppy disc a lot has been left out, amongst other things, there's no sound. It's been compressed as a ZIP file (a copy of !SparkPlug is provided) so you will need to copy it to your hard disc _____________________________________________________________________________
g209 !Abuse A port of the PD release of the Crack dot Com PC game by Nick Vrenna. The full data files for Abuse are not PD, but the 3 level Shareware one is available, and this is included. I'm told that the program will work with the data files from the full PC game if you have a copy. This is RPC only, although I gather that it will work on any machine from 610 to S/ARM _____________________________________________________________________________
g210 Thunder Strike ^ Four mission flight simulator game by Shanaka Thilakawardhana. Although it's a very large game it can be run from floppy (800K or 1.6Mb) _____________________________________________________________________________
g211 !Elite ^ 32 bit version of the best BBC game, and probably one of the really great classic games. Includes a utility to let it run on S/ARM and a copy of the Commander editor !Elite+. If you think you're good, create a Commander with NO weapons, NO carge, NO money, JUST enough fuel to reach the next system and see how you get on. (Yes, it can be done) !EliteTrad ^ Shows the profit/loss from trading cargoes between different systems !InfMass ^ Collect all the pills before you run out of time !Future ^ Yet another flight sim game. Quite good, if anything slightly better than most _____________________________________________________________________________
g212 !Blup ^ Good platform game by Richard Talbot-Watkins and Matthew Godbolt. RPC only, and it looks like a conversion with a letterbox screen but nicely done and good gameplay !BOMB ^ Battle Of the Master Bombers by Owain Cole. Copy of an Amiga game of the same name with extras, something like Bomba Man !MrMatt ^ Extremely good desktop maze/falling blocks game by Huib Verweij _____________________________________________________________________________
g213 !Marsquake ^ I've just realised that this great game by Paul Taylor wasn't in the library. Well, it is now. Includes editor !Digger ^ Port of a PC game by Andrew Jenner. Very playable. Avoid the nasties and get the cash! With lots of extra levels _____________________________________________________________________________
g214 !Flotsam ^ Flotsam of a Dream, rather good GTAC desktop game by Edmund Richardson with close links to certain well known space TV series and films. It's not 'closed' so if you've got a copy of GTAC you could add to it !Maze ^ Desktop maze by David Johnson, with designer !XmasTanx ^ 1 to 4 player fling-things-at-the-other-players game by Andrew Hunter. Set in Antartica, hence the name, and it's got all the usual features and more _____________________________________________________________________________
g215 !Caves ^ Fly around the caves, avoid the obstacles, zap te aliens, etc. By Matthew Wilson !DStar ^ Roll around the maze and collect the balls. 25 levels plus a level editor, by Andrew Von Dollen !Infest ^ Infestation by David Stubbs. Fight your way to and destroy the teleport device that‘s introducing eggs which hatch into strange monstrosities. With editor !SpceLnche ^ Push the missiles to the launch pads so they are all launched before your time runs out !Vortex ^ Vertical scrolling shoot-em-up _____________________________________________________________________________
g216 !Monopoly ^ Very good and comprehensive and desktop version of the classic game by D.Mortimer. Up to 6 players with lots of options and can save/load games _____________________________________________________________________________ © Aaron Timbrell and 3QD Developments Ltd 22/04/2026