DOOM 3 on AROS

Nick Andrews, one of our senior developers is ironing out the final bugs on it's DOOM3 code.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Cave Story: Doukutsu Monogatari

Cave Story, or Doukutsu Monogatari, is a Japanese freeware PC side-scrolling platformer game developed by Studio Pixel   . It has been translated into English by Aeon Genesis Translations   and will have an official translation script published sometime in the near future.This is really one of those games that can be considered an almost masterpiece of game design. There are so many wonderful and classic gaming elements, that...

Thursday, November 22, 2012

OpenJazz: Jazz JackRabbit engine

Jazz Jackrabbit is a series of video games featuring the titular character of Jazz Jackrabbit, a green anthropomorphic hare, who fights with his turtle nemesis, Devan Shell, in a science fiction parody of the fable of The Tortoise and the Hare. Created by Cliff Bleszinski and developed by Epic MegaGames, the series debuted on the personal computer in 1994 with Jazz Jackrabbit. The series consists of two computer games and a handheld console...

Thursday, November 1, 2012

TUX Football: TUX nowhere to be seen...

Tux Football is a great 2D soccer(for U.S.)/football(outside U.S) game. It aims on bringing old style gameplay from AMIGA times back to your computer with more up to date graphics! It's gameplay is similar to old classics such as Anco's Kick Off and Sensible Software's Sensible Soccer or it's sequel SWOS. The gameplay is designed to be quick, responsive and fun. You are always in control of the player closest to the ball. The ball is controled...

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Nether Earth: RTS ZX Remake

Nether Earth was the very first real time strategy game. Designed for ZX-SPECTRUM machine with only needed 48KB of RAM to work. It had all the typical elements of strategy games: resources, factories, combat units, etc. Nether Earth is a very interesting game from the point of vies of Artificial Intelligence (AI) since all the robots are self controlled. You just have to give your orders to the robots and they will try to...

Monday, October 22, 2012

KETM: Kill Everything that moves

KETM (or Kill Everything that moves) is a sprite based top scrolling shoot'em-up (in the very best tradition of the genre) for diferent OS'es that uses an original combat system desgined just for this title. This system takes the manic shooter approach up a notch.  Source from http://www.studio-grey.com/ketm/ AROS Port by Boran Serkan (this is based on the PSP port.) You can download at Portacall site Extra notes: Added...

Sunday, October 21, 2012

X-pired: 2 ports available

X-pired is an action-puzzle game written in C using SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_image and SDL_gfx libraries distributed under the terms of GNU GPL. The goal of the game in each level is to reach the exit square, avoiding exploding barrels and other deadly stuff... The orginal game was authored by Miroslav Kucer and available at Sourceforge There are 2 ports for this game: an old one by Mathias Rustler and a new one by Boran Serkan. You can...

Friday, October 19, 2012

Hex-a-hop: Simple and non taxing

Hex-a-Hop is a hexagonal tile-based puzzle game where the main character hops and clears all green tiles. It's not taxing in terms of moves or time since you have infinite undos and no time limits -- it's just a matter of finding a path to clear all the green tiles and step on a safe tile at the end. The original game site can be found here This port was handled by Boran Serkan. It can be downloaded at his Portacall site Here's a video...

Monday, October 15, 2012

FreeCiv: Classic Strategy

Freeciv is a single and multiplayer turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the commercial proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series. The game's default settings are closest to Civilization II, in both gameplay and graphics (including the units and the isometric grid). Released under the GNU General Public License, Freeciv is free and open source software. Players take the role of tribal leaders in...

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Frogatto and Friends: leaping and bounding on AROS

Frogatto & Friends is an open-source “platformer” game which resembles an old-school 2D platformer game, starring a certain quixotic frog named Frogatto. It's a big adventure with the usual classic stuff gathered in the videogame decades history in the genre - you walk and jump between solid footholds, fight monsters, collect coins, talk to people and buy new stuff, whilst you lead the frog through the story. Althought the authors claim not...

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Heroes of Might and Magic 2: Free Heroes for AROS

Free heroes2 is an Open Source implementation of Heroes of the Might and Magic II engine, where SDL library system is used. Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars is a turn-based strategy with a slight twist of adventure/RPG thrown invideo game developed by Jon Van Caneghem through New World Computing and published in 1996 by the 3DO Company. The game is the second installment of the Heroes of Might and Magic series and is typically...

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Neverball: 3D Ball madness

Tilt the floor to roll a ball through an obstacle course before time runs out. Neverball is part puzzle game, part action game, and entirely a test of skill.Also part of it is Neverputt, a hot-seat multiplayer miniature golf game, built on the physics and graphics engine of Neverball. Neverball site can be found here http://neverball.org More screenshots here: Screenshots AROS Port was handled by Szilard Biró. Download here: AROS-ARCHIVES Neverball...

Monday, September 10, 2012

Descent: AROS DXX Rebirth

DXX-Rebirth is a Source Port of the Descent and Descent 2 Engines, offering OpenGL graphics and effects, advanced Multiplayer, many improvements and new features. Descent and Descent 2 are pretty old games so you usually run into problems running it on more recent Hardware and Operating Systems. DXX-Rebirth will solve this! Descent is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Parallax Software and released by Interplay in 1995. The game...

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Return to Castle Wolfenstein

  Return to Castle Wolfenstein is a first person shooter video game published by Activision and originally released on November 19, 2001 and in turn is a reboot of the early first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D. It includes a story-based single player campaign (which uses certain themes from the original game), as well as a team-based networked multiplayer mode.In the campaign, Allied agents from the fictional "Office of Secret Actions" (OSA)...

Monday, September 3, 2012

Ami-Ingenious: Aros version

Ami-Ingenious is Ingenious Board game native implementation. Game goal is not get worse score in any of 6 game colours. Players got points in game placingpieces on hexagonal board and connecting identical pieces. Game rules are very easy to learn, game is designed for all ages. Ingenious is very good game, itcollecting on web positive comments and gaining international awards! Game features:all game rules are implementeddouble player various modesreal...

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Candy Crisis - Too much sugar Kitty?

Candy Crisis is a puzzle game based on the original game Puyo Puyo (which is in turn is a variation of the Columns game). It was created by John Stiles. This game can be played in both single player and two player modes, with an additional solitaire and tutorial mode. Gameplay spans around twelve stages. Story goes like this: A mad scientist at a candy factory unveiled his greatest creation: a batch of living candy, brought to life through...

Thursday, July 5, 2012

I Have No Tomatoes! - Vegetable frenzy... hmm... carnage?

I Have No Tomatoes is an extreme leisure time activity idea of which culminates in the following question: How many tomatoes can you smash in ten short minutes? If you have the time to spare, this game has the vegetables just waiting to be eliminated! This game features solid game play with beautiful OpenGL API driven isometric 3d graphics and nice music. It also includes a MOD player, and you can use your own MOD-type music in the game background. ...