OmegaDog
March 5th, 2005, 00:52
[Retrospec] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/) have made remakes of games from old computers, or original games inspired by old ones. Of the remakes, most notably, the games more-often-than-not first appeared on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.
Check out their page, and try out some of their remakes. Some are better than others -- on the high-res end, I'd recommend at least [Head Over Heels] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/), [Highway Pursuit] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=highwaypursuit), and [Jetpak: Solar Crisis] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=jetpac1) -- and on the normal-res end, maybe [Lunar Jetman] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=ljm), [Skool Daze: Klass of '99] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=ko99), and [Jet Set Willy] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=jsw) or [Manic Miner] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=mm). I'd at least recommend you try the high-res ones -- all of the games listed here have spiffy music, and the-high res ones, well, look incredibly spiffy. (The normal-res ones look spiffy too.)
Anyway -- it seems some of these games have ports to different computers. (At least Head Over Heels has a Windows, Mac, Linux, and BeOS port.) As such -- might there be any possibility of perhaps attempting Dreamcast ports of these games? There might be a memory issue (if the regular-computer memory requirements for some of the games are any indication) -- though I don't know if you might be able to develop any workarounds or such -- or, I don't know how much computer RAM requirements matter when considering console ports.
For anyone who might be interested in attempting a port -- though the sources for most games aren't readily available as direct downloads, perhaps you might be able to e-mail the authors about it. I'd imagine that might be how the ports to other computers for Head Over Heels were developed.
Check out their page, and try out some of their remakes. Some are better than others -- on the high-res end, I'd recommend at least [Head Over Heels] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/), [Highway Pursuit] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=highwaypursuit), and [Jetpak: Solar Crisis] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=jetpac1) -- and on the normal-res end, maybe [Lunar Jetman] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=ljm), [Skool Daze: Klass of '99] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=ko99), and [Jet Set Willy] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=jsw) or [Manic Miner] (http://retrospec.sgn.net/game-overview.php?link=mm). I'd at least recommend you try the high-res ones -- all of the games listed here have spiffy music, and the-high res ones, well, look incredibly spiffy. (The normal-res ones look spiffy too.)
Anyway -- it seems some of these games have ports to different computers. (At least Head Over Heels has a Windows, Mac, Linux, and BeOS port.) As such -- might there be any possibility of perhaps attempting Dreamcast ports of these games? There might be a memory issue (if the regular-computer memory requirements for some of the games are any indication) -- though I don't know if you might be able to develop any workarounds or such -- or, I don't know how much computer RAM requirements matter when considering console ports.
For anyone who might be interested in attempting a port -- though the sources for most games aren't readily available as direct downloads, perhaps you might be able to e-mail the authors about it. I'd imagine that might be how the ports to other computers for Head Over Heels were developed.