While waiting for a Commodore Emulator: some “Commodore games” for Dingoo!

Unless you’re one of those people whose father insisted that the only PC the family needed was an IBM XT, or worse, a Microbee (“It’s educational, and you can practice your maths, boy!”), chances are that you have a fond place in your heart for a Commodore of some kind: a C64, Amiga, or more than likely, both.  With no sign of emulation of these on the horizon, we have to make do. 

So, enjoy these fully working Dingoo conversions, courtesy of PDRoms, until better times get here! Thanks to Kojote and the various app authors!

    

Art	Game	So what?	Screenshots
	Elite (Click here to grab the homebrew GBA version) (Bonus: Click here to grab the NES version, which is regarded as the best 8 Bit version)	Discover that your Dingoo is actually a portal into 5 galaxies. The game which essentially created the galactic space sim saga, on which all other galactic space sim sagas are based!  Let’s face it, inside every Freelancer or X2 is Elite, waiting to get out. Be warned! Elite is tremendously difficult, and there are people still trying to finish it today. They never graduated high school, or got proper jobs, and live in their Mum’s basement (even though mum died years ago).  Some of them had girlfriends, but they communicated only through World of Warcraft, and split up after both maxed out on Level 66.
	Lords of Midnight Doomdark’s Revenge (Click here for Dingoo Lords of Midnight) (Click here for the manual – you’ll need this!) (Click here for Dingoo Doomdark’s Revenge)	Mike Singleton’s genre breaking classic game – and its sequel - this adventure/wargame series was groundbreaking for it’s time.  I never got into it, to be frank, but it’s apparently full of depth, and Singleton’s subsequent works like Midwinter on more powerful machines demonstrated that he was a master of compelling, open game design.  Think of this in many ways as the spiritual forerunner to Grand Theft Auto sandbox style gaming. The conversion successfully turns your Dingoo into a C64 running 6 colours, including sickly purple and luminous bile green.  This alone is worth booting it up for.
	Nebulus (Click here for Dingoo Nebulus)	Nebulus made me go “WoW! Why would I ever need an Amiga?” when I first saw it.  The graphics for this stood out on the C64, and the gameplay was tremendously challenging.  Few people ever managed to finish even level 1.  Those who did turned into beings of pure energy, and have since departed for the Galactic Rim.
	Metal Warrior 4 (Click here for Dingoo Metal Warrior 4)	I know next to nothing about this series, but it reached No 4, so it must be good.  The graphics are from the “Very Nice For a C64” school of video game art. Click here for a review of an earlier Metal Warrior 3, but mainly because it’s the link to special Issue 107 of ZZAP 64 which was released from a few years back! You may well have even more fun reading this than playing the game.
	Another World (Click here for Dingoo Another World)	Another World is one of the few games I have ever completed, though to be fair, it is made to be completed, being short and ultimately, completely linear.  Unlike Xenon 2, you didn’t need to have superhuman twitch reflexes to play it well. The unique vector graphic animation still stand up – and hold up today.  The story is gripping, and well worth experiencing again. The opening scene, where you enter your lab and nuke yourself into … another world … probably inspired the first 20 minutes of Half Life! And it’s in “widescreen”!
	Lemmings (Click here for Dingoo Lemmings)	Let’s go! Lemmings was a unique and groundbreaking game for the for the Amiga which is still tremendously popular and challenging.  It is the long lost distant cousin of the much more kinetic Worms, but Lemmings remains for me more satisfying overall.  I love those little guys! The Dingoo version plays surprisingly well without a mouse.