C Programming

Visit my Mappy page - A mapping utility for making levels for YOUR games (extremely good). Includes full source, examples and playback library functions. Now V1.3.18. DirectX playback library and (Win)Allegro playback library available.

Play Platform One the game online - A small java game you can play in your browser.

Visit my Fatal Mission page - A nostalgic look back to games I wrote on the Amiga.

Visit my F O U R page - A sort of game work in progress widget, not currently being updated.

Visit my Alien Epidemic page. Updated 17/8/2000.



Download 3 Puzzles: Baroll V1.05, Molefest V1.05 and Pyrastak V1.0 (1.8Mb) Windows (DirectX). Baroll has 72 levels of Barrel rolling puzzling. Molefest is a fun PipeMania type game. Pyrastak is... well, mysterious. Updated 28/10/2002 to latest Allegro 4.1.4 to fix problems on WinXP

Download Baroll V1.05 DOS (1.3Mb) A great puzzle game for PC with many levels (full game).




Download Molefest V1.05 DOS (526K) A great puzzle game for PC with many levels (full game, with source)

Download Pyrastak V1.0 DOS (428K) A puzzle game for PC with many levels (full game, with source)

Windows Molefest and Pyrastak are included in the 3 puzzles download above



Download csmall.zip (5K) Allegro source for a 3D starfield, wavy message and BMP to PPM convertor
Download wire1.zip (135K) spinning wireframe with source (136K, demo, not playable).
Visit my Mysteries of EX22 (ex22 is now ex3d) page (An Allegro 3D example explained).

Other free games worth looking at

Drops of Light Deceptively simple puzzler. Nicely made, good difficulty curve
Ports of Call Strategy/Simulation of a worldwide shipping company
Retrospec Spectrum remakes, Get Klass of 99, Manic Miner and JetSet Willy

So what commercial games do I rate? Visit my 10 Games page and see.

General Game Programming Links

C_Guide3 (local link) large reference guide for C, also good for beginners. Please ignore the sections on memory
DJGPP Free DOS C/C++ compiler for DOS, extremely good
Allegro Games library for DJGPP, extremely good
MingW32 Free Windows C/C++ compiler, nice
OpenGL THE 3D standard
Smacker The best 24bit to 8bit colour converter, essential. Free
GIMP Win32 Windows port of a superb drawing package. In development, a bit buggy
MIDAS Multiplatform sound library, free for freeware use
Setup Generator Freeware. Excellent windows installer maker

Allegro Links - Useful Sites

SET's links A huge number of links for people using DJGPP and Allegro
JGMod Mod playing addon for allegro, also nice Tetris style game (JTris)
The New Allegro Games Depot Comprehensive list of games made with Allegro, WinAllegro and Linux Allegro

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