Category: Games

Donut Games Offering Parachute and Jungle Crash Land for Free

Donut Games, the publisher of the popular Rat on a Skateboard app is currently offering two of their games for the iphone for free.  Parachute, which is a serious game of control skills and Jungle Crash Land, one of our favorites, are both on tap for free download for “a limited time”.  Donut games occasionally offers some of their games in a “Free Game of the Week” promotion. You can download Parachute at: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=313734044&mt=8 Jungle Crash Land is available at:…

Tap Tap Muppets now available for iPhone

Game: Tap Tap Muppets Version: 1.0 Publisher: Disney / Tapulous URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/tap-tap-muppets/id478167642?mt=8 For those of us who refuse to grow up or those who loved the Tap Tap series of games, there is now the ultimate laughing time Tap Tap game available from Disney and Tapulous.  Tap Tap Muppets features all of those lovable characters from the popular TV and movie series.  The game comes with two tracks initially another 4 tracks are available for download immediately. The game has…

Donut Games Releases New Game, Rat on a Snowboard

  Game: Rat on a Snowboard Version: 1.00 Publisher: Donut Games Platform: iPhone/iPad URL: http://donutgames.com/iphone_games.php The 29th game in Donut Games iPhone game series is one of absolute genious.  Donut Games has taken their popular Rat series games a step further from the previous, Rat on the Run and Rat on a Skateboard to the world of extreme snowboarding. Rat on a Snowboard is a high paced, fun game with a ton of new obstacles and three different play modes…

Game Circus LLC Releases Game Claw Halloween for iPhone

One of our favorite games of the previous months has come back in a new incarnation.  Game Claw Halloween is a new play on the popular iPhone game Game Claw, but instead of prizes, you collect ghosts and goblins.  With Halloween right around the corner, this is the perfect game to get you Scare on.  The best part of the download is that it is free.  However, like other Game Circus LLS games, there are in-app purchases which allow you…

Maze+ for iPhone and iPad for Free

Maze+, the three dimensional maze game by Secret Headquarters, Inc. is available for free download from the App store.  The game runs on both the iPhone and iPad and is quite an addicting little game. The game features running of characters through the mazes, beginning with a character named Kolo Jones.  As you gain experience and complete mazes, collecting gems for wins, the other characters can be acquired by converting the gems into coins. You can download the game from…

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 for iPhone Free

Electronic arts is giving away the game Tiger Woods PGS Tour 12 for the iPhone and iPad.  The game which is a whopping 269mb download is an example of what can be accomplished with the graphics on the iPhone.   The game is currently available from the Apple Store at itunes.apple.com/us/app/tiger-woods-pga-tour-12/id427647815?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 and is the full package of the game.

Add on – Dapplegrey

Dapplegrey is a front end to DOSBox. It is a way to maintain quick access to the features and programs stored within DOSBox. Minimum requirements are OS X 10.3 and a PPC Mac. Access to programs is quite simple. It is a matter of  going to the “Games List” tab and double-clicking on the desired program. The assumption is people running DOSBox are running old DOS (PC) games. In my case this is true. I do everything else in OS…

Live Game CD

By now folks realise I’m into free stuff. I was looking around some of the social networking sites I frequent when I found this little gem. It’s a live CD with old DOS games for the PC. So why am I writing about it here? Simple answer… It works better on Intel Macs than it does on PCs. Well, at least it does on the machines I use. 😉 The CD contains a whopping 40MB of games. Back in the…

Leadlight Adventure Version 1.2 Released

Wade Clarke has released an update for his Leadlight Adventure. The game itself is quite the adventure.  Your are playing a girl Belinda who’s world is slowly falling apart.  According to the Leadlight website, “15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia’s Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare. Her classmates are transformed, nameless terrors seek her out across the schoolgrounds, and traps and…

Tetris in Applesoft

By Mark Phosis Philip Lord was looking for a basic listing of Tetris in a recent post on Comp.Sys.Apple2 and this was the program listing by Mark Phosis.  The program was written in 1992 and could definitely be optimized to run faster. The drawing primitives are at lines 200 and 225.  It looks like the subroutine at line 800 does collision detection. ============ 10  GOSUB 1000 100 W = W + 1: IF W > LV THEN W =  0:…

Super Star Trek for the Apple ][

by Wade Clarke This is my ‘new’ (IE previously unreleased anyplace) version of Super Star Trek for the Apple II Time to share another old game of mine with folks in the internet age 🙂 You can download the disk image here: http://home.iprimus.com.au/bloomer/STARTREK.zip In 1995 I put together this version of ye olde ‘Super Star Trek’ game, using pseudo-animated mousetext graphics and some nice sound effects.  The interface is also friendly, you just tap a key to do most things….

Silvern Castle Version 9.4 Released

By Jeff Fink After almost two years without a release, I’m happy to announceSilvern Castle version 9.4. This is a very minor update to the program.  Changes in version 9.4 include: Bugs Fixed in v9.4:* In some cases the encumbrance display at camp incorrectly displayed the penalty. Stuffed Changed in v9.4:* The B)urden display at camp now shows the exact amount of cn needed to remove any encumbrance penalty.* Moved the Market C)amp command from the Blue Knight Tavern to…

Oregon Trail for the iPhone

Title: Oregon Trail Publisher: Gameloft Cost: $1.99 Platform: iPhone Back when I was in junior high school, we had a very rudimentary version of the game Oregon Trail on our DEC PDP 11/40.  Playing the game was as simple as making the right choices and typing BANG for the hunting scenes in the game.   While very entertaining at the time, it was rather simplistic compared to the 1984 version of the MECC game Oregon Trail. The 1984 Version was a…

An A.P.P.L.E. Review: Icy Escort from Donut Games

by Bill Martens Product: Icy Escort Version: 1.10 Size: 4.4mb Requires: iPhone OS 3.0 Languages: English Website: http://www.donutgames.com/ This past week, I began to look at games for my iPhone 3Gs and of course, there are plenty out there.  However, the distance between the good, the bad, and the downright ugly is tremendous.  One diamond in the rough was a game I ran across from Swedish Game Development AB, also known as Donut Games.  Icy Escort is a puzzle style…

Yule’s Christmas Quest — An A.P.P.L.E. Review

Product: Yule’s Christmas Quest. Version : 1.1 Date : 2008/12/14 Publisher: Candlestone Productions Website : http://www.candlestoneproductions.com Category : Mac Intel / Game / New Release Cost : Free About The Program : Candlestone Productions has released a nifty little Christmas game / adventure game which is directed primarily at kids. Yule’s Christmas Quest is a freeware package that focuses on the idea of finding all of the gifts from the twelve days of Christmas. Santa apparently forgets where he puts…

Anatomy of an Eamon Adventure

Robert Plamondon How the EAMON Adventure System Works. COMPUTERIZED adventure games have been surrounded by an aura of mystery that has nothing to do with their story lines. Simply stated, the mystery is this: no one knows how they work. Like most mysteries, adventure programs are pretty straightforward once the hidden parts are revealed. To bring these secrets to light, let’s look at the EAMON adventure system by Donald Brown, which is a set of BASIC programs for the APPLE…

A.P.P.L.E. Software Library New Programs

The library is now assembling games and other applications into module form, 2 or three programs on a menu. So far, we have Gamepak I with Anne Apple, OneArm Bandit and an updated version of Zot!; No 2 contains Hurkle, Multiply and Biorhythm while “Programmers Workshop” is composed of Append, Examine Basic, Renunber, List by Page, Poke Routine Write’ and Pick a Base From… Blackjack Checkers and Craps will be in the next Gamepak, while other new programs include Appleodian,…