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Public Domain Libraries Catalogues
This page contains links to the various public domain library catalogues. This should make it easier to find specific public domain games.
AmigaPd Catalogue
As well as containing catalogues from previous Public Domain libaries this website is also involved in obtaining its own collection of public domain and shareware games. Work has started on making a catalogue of the games currently owned from various CD sources.
Firstly there are the recommended game catalogues which try to list the best examples of Amiga public domain + shareware games - Click on the following links to see these recommendations: AmigaPd Recommends - The first collection of game disk screenshots for Public Domain/Shareware games A - E AmigaPd Recommends 2 - The second collection of game disk screenshots for Public Domain/Shareware games F - L AmigaPd Recommends 3 - The third collection of games disk screenshots for Public Domain/Shareware gamesM - R AmigaPd Recommends 4 - The last collection of game disk screenshots for Public Domain/Shareware games S - Z As well as the recommended game catalogue we are also involved in producing a more comprehensive list of games broken down alphabetically, see links below: Games Beginning with A - catalogue of screenshots of Public Domain / Shareware games beginning with A. Games Beginning with B - catalogue of screenshots of Public Domain / Shareware games beginning with B. Games Beginning with C - catalogue of screenshots of Public Domain / Shareware games beginning with C. Games Beginning with D - catalogue of screenshots of Public Domain / Shareware games beginning with D. Games Beginning with E or F - catalogue of screenshots of Public Domain / Shareware games beginning with E or F Games beginning with G -H - underconstruction. Games beginning with I -J - underconstruction. Games beginning with K -L - underconstruction. Games beginning with M -N - underconstruction. Games beginning with O -P - underconstruction. Games beginning with Q - R - underconstruction. Games beginning with S - T - underconstruction. Games beginning with U -V - underconstruction. Games beginning with W -X - underconstruction. Games beginning with Y - Z - underconstruction. |
Public Domain Libaries
Below are a links to the catalogues from various Public Domain libaries which existed during the 1980s and 1990s - including Assassins - 17 Bit Sorftware - Virus Pd and United Public Domain.
AMOS PD
Amos PD library contained mainly games and programs written in AMOS - some disks also contain the source code. Click on the following links for relevant section of the catalogue which is of interest to you.
- Music - - Demos - - Amos Games with Source - - Sound Samples - - Programs with Source code - - Animations - - Education - - Amos Compiled and Non-Amos Games - - Music - - General Utilities - Assassins Ultimate Games CDsAssassins produced some fantastic CDs for the CD32 and CDTV. The CDs were published by Wierd Science and are worth obtaining if you have a CD32 or Amiga with CD drive. The links below will take you to pages listing the contents of the CDs.
Assassins Ultimate Games CD 1 Assassins Ultimate Games CD 2 Assassins Ultimate Games CD 3 Assassins Ultimate Games CD 4 Assassins Game DisksAs well as producing the fantastic CDs Assassins also produced individual 3.5 disks containing collections of games. In total they produced 260+ disk compliations. Click here to see a list of all the disk contents.
17 Bit Software
One of the big Public Domain Libaries was 17 Bit Software - they released various CDs containing the majority of their collection. Click here to see a catalogue taken from one of the CD compilations.
Now That's What I Call Games
The launch of the CD32 resulted in many new Public Domain / Shareware compilation CDs being released. Now That's What I Call Games was one such series which released CDs contain 100 Public Domain / Shareware games to play.
Click here to see a list of Games contained on Now That's What I Call Games Disk 1 Click here to see a list of Games contained on Now That's What I Call Games Disk 2 Coming Soon Now That's What I Call Games Disk 3 - Catalogue United Public Domain
To improve the reliability of the Public Domain scene and reduce advertising costs a group of Public Domain Libaries joined together to form United Public Domain. Click here to see their catalogue.
Virus Free Public Domain
Virus Free Public Domain was another large Public Domain Library that also started up its own Liceneware label releasing games such as Dark Things. Click here to see a catalogue for Virus Free Public Domain taken from their CD release.
Zoom - Active Software / Ground Zero
Active Software and Ground Zero released a CD-Rom in 1995 containing the very best of public domain from December 1994 to June 1995. Click here to see the games contained on this CD.
Zoom 2 - Active Software / Ground Zero
Active Software and Ground Zero released a follow up CD rom containing the very best public domain from late 1995 and early 1996. Click here to see the games contained on this CD.
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