The Links Exchange

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Commercial developers
Company homepages offering games to buy.

PD Authors
  • Aargh! Simple freeware game. Need to check this link.
  • Angband/Sangband Freeware ports of the classic textual graphics adventure games
  • ARMed and Dangerous Authors of a prolifera of free games, including some good ones!
  • Artemis Vertical scrolling shoot-em-up, originally released as part of Quantum's New Dawn disc magazine.
  • ARV Armed Robbery With Violence. A fun and occasionally amusing text adventure. Just try and RIDE THE BIKE!
  • Cavern Duel Full release of the game
  • Darren Green Information on games which are due to be released as shareware and budgetware 'very soon'.
  • Doom-It-Yourself This controversial compile-it-yourself Doom port runs almost as fast as the commercial version and has a number of features and improvements over its kosher rival.
  • Gerph See Justin Fletcher
  • Hopper RISC OS version of the classic BBC game, by Simon Foster
  • R Fred Williams Information and downloads from the author of Pushy II and QBuild, a useful Quake utility. Also the home of the coding group Fishnet.
  • Frogger Based on the same game as Hopper; some may prefer this implementation.
  • Justin Fletcher The prolific coder's pages, with huge amounts of useful programs, including libraries for running network games.
  • Kicking Fish Chess Demos of some shareware chess games
  • FreeDoom This port of Doom by David Csaszar was attacked by R-Comp on release but can still be downloaded, as R-Comp's legal position is unknown even with regard to executables.
  • The Grey Havens Home of Holocaust, the shareware Scorched Earth clone... by me!
  • Ian Bell's Elite pages Home of all the different versions of Elite for various computer systems. From here you can download the full game of Elite Gold - get it now if you'venever played it!
  • John-Paul Stanford Two shareware games, a Tetris clone Bricks and a 'tron-type game', Worm.
  • Lee Noar Author of the PD and commercial ports of the PC game Abuse, and the Deth DOOM level editor.
  • Luke Graham Author of numerous programs including an excellent Aliens TC DOOM/DOOM II installer for Acorn DOOM.
  • Matthew Bloch Author of Swarm, amongst other things.
  • Peter Teichmann Lord Master of free Quake conversions! Peter maintains the only playable free port of Quake available for the Acorn. Only runs acceptably on StrongARM. (New Link 20/5/98)
  • ShPlouc A great little shufflepuck game with a very good computer opponent
  • Skullsoft The games programming group's web pages, maintained by Chris Egan.
  • Soft Rock Software You can download Soft Rock's previously budget commercial Acorn games here, as freeware. Includes some previously reviewed in Acorn User.
  • VOTI - Visions of the Impossible Super Foul Egg is this coding group's latest triumph; check out what else they have to offer.

Games sites
Other games-dedicated sites; just the good ones.

Utilities
Not strictly games themselves, but all the same, generally related, kind of thing.

Archives
Some of the biggest FTP and Web collections of free games, nearly free games, and demos.

Online Shopping
You want to buy commercial games? Too lazy to go down the shops? These sites simplify the process.

Graphics Demos
Graphics demo links, supporting the Graphics Demos
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