![]() ![]() The late 1990s and early 2000s saw a number of popular games ported to RISC OS from bigger platforms by R-Comp, and Heroes of Might and Magic 2 are amongst the biggest titles. ![]() Playing Badass Acorn Archimedes Games on a Raspberry Pi is an absolute beginner's guide to playing retro games on a Raspberry Pi that presumes absolutely no prior knowledge of Risc OS.Ĭommercial and shareware games are occasionally released for RISC OS, usually when the work involved in writing or porting the game required a considerable amount of time.The Archimedes Software Preservation Project has many former commercial games available for free download, along with utilities to make them run on newer hardware.The usenet group has general RISC OS games discussion.Acorn Arcade covers some RISC OS games news, and also has some former commercial games available as freeware.The 4th Dimension Games Collections typically feature 9-12 games on a CD, so there's enough to keep you occupied for a long time! Notable among these games are Cataclysm, Nevryon, E-Type and others. APDL now own the rights to and are selling the 4th Dimension's back catalogue.R-Comp has a selection of ported games that have been fully converted to RISC OS (including Quake, Doom and Descent), and a native RISC OS Doom-like game, Destiny.Jason Tribbeck was writing a couple of new games, both were last seen in alpha or early beta stages of development in the early 2000s ACED and Equinox.Sine Nomine Software has also proved to be one of the most active games developers in recent years, with impressive work being done on their various shareware puzzle games, SuperDoku and the new Wrangler being their flagship titles.Chris Bazley including Star Fighter 3000.as of June 2016, Escape From Exeria is now being updated to work on modern RISC OS hardware. Soft Rock Software developed a number of budget titles in the early 1990s.The third Xeroid was again released 6 months later at Wakefield 2016. The second Legends of Magic was released 6 months later at ROUGOL 2015. The first game released was Overlord at the Wakefield 2015 show. AmCoG are actively developing new Indie games for RISC OS.The following games/emulators have their own pages:Īlthough there have been many game developers in the past this list contains only links to developers who are somewhat active, or have games available. There are also a variety of emulators available, such as DosBox and PicoDrive, and these make a wide variety of classic games such as Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario Brothers available for play - provided suitable ROM images can be found. Many of the ports are relatively processor intensive, and can be impractical on a RiscPC or Iyonix, so a Raspberry Pi 2, Pandaboard, Beagleboard or ARMX6 is required. Otherwise many newly appearing RISC OS games are ports (many hosted on ), with the occasional original title available from R-Comp's !Store, or a rework of an older BBC Micro or Archimedes game. Thus small independant game developers are producing both new titles and re-written older titles. AMCOG games) There has also been a renewed interest in games from established companies such as Softrock Software. However, since the release of the Raspberry Pi and ARM X6, new game developers have been attracted to RISC OS (e.g. The RISC OS games scene has never been very active, and became even quieter with the disappearance of Acorn Computers Ltd in 1998. ![]()
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