Your favourite Public Domain games?

[Harrison]

I want to start adding some of the best Public Domain games to the site's database. Therefore can I ask for everyone to list their favourite Amiga PD games here so we can get a list of the best ones going and this can be used to add them to the site.

We will also need screenshots for each of these games. Between 10-20 screenshots per game is a great number to show visitors all aspects of a game. If you can make some screenshots of your favourite PD games that would be brilliant and speed up the whole process.

And if you have direct links to the game's ADF files that would be great too as we would like to include these for download on the site too.

[Demon Cleaner]

I never had any PD games, therefore I cannot name any. But I would really like to test some, looking forward to see what you post.

[Buleste]

I always enjoyed scorched tanks.

[Graham Humphrey]

Here's a few (I'll try and find some links later):

Scorched Tanks
Gravity Power
Tetris Pro
Megaball
Diamond Caves
Jet Set Willy '97 (http://aminet.net/game/jump/JetSet97_12.lha)
FaYoh 2 (http://aminet.net/game/jump/FaYoh2.lha)
Drip (http://aminet.net/game/misc/Drip.lha)
Jump 'n' Roll
Tanks 'n' Stuff
R3
Atom Smasher
Super Obliteration
Strikes 'n' Spares
Aerial Racers
Breed 96

[Harrison]

We already have Deluxe Galaga and Pacman on the site including downloads. But some links to the others you listed would be great. Some great games there that I've not played in years.

[Graham Humphrey]

Got a few links in there now... they are all .lha files though as they are from Aminet. Not all of them will fit on floppy so you couldn't host them on the site as ADFs.

Also several of these games were on magazine coverdisks as well, so might have to track them down.

Just had a thought actually... some of these lha files will fit on floppy so I guess some of us could create ADFs ourselves? But I was thinking if we go down that route then maybe it could be a good idea if the site had its own PD compilation disks like the old Assassins ones? But without all the dodgy SEUCK games ;)

I'd happily put a few together, maybe with some of the ones I listed and maybe if anyone has any requests then they could be included too :) (although this obviously only applies to those games that comfortably fit on a floppy disk)

They could have a proper menu system and things too, so it would be easy just to boot it in WinUAE and away you go. It could also be good for beginners who don't want to fiddle about with HDFs and lha and the like, or those people like Demon Cleaner who have never played PD games before and need a good introduction to them ;)

Also you wouldn't need to host as many files as a few of these could fit on an ADF. What do y'all think of this idea, could it work?

[Sharingan]

I really liked Frantic Freddy and Klondike Deluxe, the first being a platformer (sort of) and the second a card game with customisable card decks. There were some rather spiffy digitised decks available.

Another favourite was Gravity Power / Gravity Force, but I think I've mentioned that enough elsewhere.

[sarek2k]

i've just setup my real amiga again gonna dig thru a few disks from dazzaboy (osuk) i'll add some from them here but a few i remeber off the top of my head (maybe not all PD will have to check!)

Amoeba Invaders
Tanx
Bi Planes
Kastle Kumquat
Wet Beaver (great bat n ball game)
Dirty Cash (already posted for download)
Operation Lemmings (as above)
Take Em Out
Starwoids (Brilliant thrust type game inspired by star wars)
Star Trek PD game (Tobias Richter as disgussed elsewhere)




Will add others when i remeber them ;)

[AlexJ]

Just had a thought actually... some of these lha files will fit on floppy so I guess some of us could create ADFs ourselves? But I was thinking if we go down that route then maybe it could be a good idea if the site had its own PD compilation disks like the old Assassins ones? But without all the dodgy SEUCK games ;)

I'd happily put a few together, maybe with some of the ones I listed and maybe if anyone has any requests then they could be included too :) (although this obviously only applies to those games that comfortably fit on a floppy disk)

They could have a proper menu system and things too, so it would be easy just to boot it in WinUAE and away you go. It could also be good for beginners who don't want to fiddle about with HDFs and lha and the like, or those people like Demon Cleaner who have never played PD games before and need a good introduction to them ;)

Also you wouldn't need to host as many files as a few of these could fit on an ADF. What do y'all think of this idea, could it work?

I think self-booting ADF's are definitely a good thing to have where possible. Whether to have 1 game per ADF which just boots straight into it or multiple games with a menu system I'm not sure.

[Harrison]

@Graham Humphrey

That sounds like a great idea. If you can create some self booting ADFs for some of these games that would be great.

When the game's are bigger than an ADF I've so far created self booting HDFs. Deluxe Galaga, already on the site, is in HDF format.

[sarek2k]

@Graham Humphrey yeah great idea!

@Harrison we could even put up a boot pic (classic amiga) in startup-sequence etc maybe add some cool copper effect in the background with F1 > F0 keys etc if any of us can still remember how to do it :) proper oldskool style :)

[Harrison]

That would be cool. To have out own PD release disks with CA intro and menu. :)

[Graham Humphrey]

That's a good idea, I guess we need a decent menu system of course, and of course a nice pic of the CA logo ;)

[Puni/Void]

That would be cool. To have out own PD release disks with CA intro and menu. :)

If you are interested, I've coded a pack with a selector and scroller. It has never been released, as I don't have a proper graphical interface for it. I can easily adapt this to work with games instead of intros. Please give me a sign and we can work something out. Would be great to have our own range of PD disks.

My favourite PD game on the Amiga is Deluxe Galaga. Have spent countless hours playing this one. :) Needless to say, I'm still having a go at Warblade on the PC from time to time. Another good PD game was Deluxe Pacman from the same author as Deluxe Galaga.

[Graham Humphrey]

Oh yeah I was going to put some PD compilations together myself wasn't I :lol:

[woody.cool]

My favourite PD games are:

Doody
Knights
Aerial Racers
Deluxe Galaga
Deluxe Pacman
Missle Command
Sensible Massacre (well, I think it was PD)
Sneech (OK! This is shareware, but the registered version is awesome)

[Graham Humphrey]

@P G

I'd still quite fancy doing these disks too, perhaps we could both put some together? The more the merrier I'd say.

[woody.cool]

..... with F1 > F0 keys etc if any of us can still remember how to do it :) proper oldskool style :)
I've got a Keymap editor for doing exactly that. I could always supply that to you (it's PD/freeware) if required.

[Puni/Void]

@P G

I'd still quite fancy doing these disks too, perhaps we could both put some together? The more the merrier I'd say.

Sounds good to me, Graham! :thumbs: Hope we can get this thing rolling! :) I'll try to adapt my sourcecode tomorrow. Guess I'll have to load up DPain as well. ;)

[burns flipper]

Dogfight v1.1 (http://aminet.net/package/game/2play/Dogfight11)
Jouster 3 (http://aminet.net/package/game/misc/Jouster3)
Knockout 2 (http://aminet.net/package/game/2play/KnockOut2)
Revenge AGA (http://aminet.net/package/game/shoot/RevengeAGApal) (plus all the add-ons (http://aminet.net/search?query=revenge+aga))

PD RULEZ!!! My other faves have been mentioned (Scorched Tanx was great!)

[Graham Humphrey]

Sounds good to me, Graham! :thumbs: Hope we can get this thing rolling! :) I'll try to adapt my sourcecode tomorrow. Guess I'll have to load up DPain as well. ;)

Great! Of course if anyone has any games they specifically want included on these disks then do say... I might start having a search around myself.

[Buleste]

We've forgotten Soliton and freecell for all us sad card players out there.

[Puni/Void]

Speaking of card games; Did any of you play Klondike AGA? That was a great game. Loved the feature that allowed the user to install additional card-sets.

[Buleste]

I used to like Klondike but I found that Soliton and Freecell were better patience games. You can also create card sets for Soliton and i think you can convert the REKO cardsets to Soliton (Sorry i like Freecell type games. I also like Hearts but theres only one game for the amiga and thats in OS4 and the colours used are terrible.).

[Buleste]

I've just found this (http://www.rekonet.org/) website which has hundreds and hundreds of Reko cardsets and a few reko related links.

[Teho]

There was a PD minesweeper game I played that was better than the Windows version, in that you could customise board size and amount of mines, and there was a setting that made sure that your first click was always a blank space. Always having to search for that at the beginning still annoys me whenever I try the Windows game.

[Buleste]

Is it any of these? (http://aminet.net/search?query=minesweeper)

[Teho]

Probably. I don't remember exactly what it was called, would have to go through them to find it. Or we could just pick the one that's generally considered the best and include it?

[Sharingan]

Speaking of card games; Did any of you play Klondike AGA? That was a great game. Loved the feature that allowed the user to install additional card-sets.


Yeah, I used to play Klondike - with the nekkid women card sets! :thumbs:

[Buleste]

Speaking of card games; Did any of you play Klondike AGA? That was a great game. Loved the feature that allowed the user to install additional card-sets.


Yeah, I used to play Klondike - with the nekkid women card sets! :thumbs:

You should go to that site i linked to . Theres loads of Nekkid women cards on there.;)

[Harrison]

Since upgrading my A1200 I've got the old HD sitting ready for me to make a copy of the old install I used for years. Among the contents I've got hundreds of HD installed PD games that I used to play a lot and they are all setup in genre directories for easy navigation.

When i get time I will create an HDF of my PD collection so you can all get hold of it if you are interested. I might first need to setup some local assign and launch scripts in some of the game's directories as I'm sure I set the assigns up originally in the main user-startup file.

I'm quite looking forward to exploring my old A1200 HD setup and playing them all again.

[Cortona]

My favourite was Scorched Tanks - so simple but so much fun after a night at the pub! I also liked Extreme Violence, another two player effort with some interesting weapons and sound effects. I still have these on my A1200's HD.

[Amigapd]

Back in October last year I created a website focussing just on Amiga public domain games - I have recently added a self booting compilation cd for the cd32 or winuae emulator and I have now added a CF hard drive image of the compilation for Amiga 1200 users - the compilations contain 250+ amiga public domain games and shareware demos.

http://www.amigapd.com/amiga-1200-cf-disk.html link for Amiga 1200 compilation
http://www.amigapd.com/cd32-compilation-download.html link for cd32 compilation

www.amigapd.com

[Ghost]

I hope people don't mind me resurrecting this 'dead' topic but I wanted tor respond to the last poster's (yeah two years ago) post.

I think I discovered his site around then and have been able to play some PD gems I otherwise would not have been able to play.

Super Obliteration is one of my favorites but I also liked, Scorched Tanks, Zombie Apocalypse, and I have really been trying to get into the Shepherd as it looks intriguing.