Australia’s first games developer
came to prominence in the early eighties, and through those
years brought the world some original and genre breaking games
for the 8-bit computers.These games were made available for
free distribution since 1996 (see
details below), and this page is a collection of what
I could find so far in their catalogue. I'll be adding more
games and pictures gradually, as soon as I can find them.
In the meantime, you can download these C64 games by clicking the titles and loading them with the C64 emulator WinVice.
Get WinVice v1.17 here. Make sure you go into settings/video/advanced/external
palette and choose ccs64. The default colour mode is way too
dull!
OR you can run some of the games below with jaC64, the Java C64 emulator. If you want to find more details about jaC64, check them out here.
Start programs by clicking on game pictures and links. Joystick emulation is as num-pad arrows indicates, with num-lock on (8-up, 4-left, 6-right, 2-down, 0-fire).
Other important keys are: Pause/Break => RunStop :
Article 487 of freenet.sci.comp.atari.news:
From: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
Subject: Melbourne House games now free for distribution
Date: 25 Nov 1996 23:30:44 GMT
From: Fredrik Ekman <ekman@lysator.liu.se>
Date: 18 Aug 1996 18:00:40 +0200
In case anyone still cares about copyrights for old games,
I would like to forward a message I just got from Beam Software.
Beam has the rights to all the games distributed by Melbourne
House in the 80's. In the US, some of the Beam games, such
as The Hobbit, were distributed by Addison-Wesley.
This came by as a result of an interview I have been making
with Philip Mitchell regarding his text adventure series based
on Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings books. The
interview will be published in a future issue of Other Hands.
Contact me or watch comp.sys.sinclair for upcoming announcement
if you are interested in the details.
Anyway, i quote Mr. Mitchell's message:
"After discussion with the company directors I am glad
to be able to say that Beam has officially sanctioned electronic
distribution of it's old Spectrum and C64 (and Oric, BBC,
Amstrad etc) games - provided that such distribution is non-profit
only. Please keep in mind that on some titles (e.g. The Hobbit)
there are other parties who have a vested interest in the
title and strictly speaking you would also need their permission."
If you want to confirm this, you can contact Beam through
their Web site: http://www.beam.com.au/
