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Welcome to The Chuckie Egg Professional's Resource Kit, a site dedicated to a game which
reached the absolute pinnacle of platformers during the 1980s.
Chuckie Egg -
A game of skill for 1 to 4 players
Who'd have thought a country farmyard could be so stressful? Guide your man, Hen House Harry, around his hen house
to pick up a dozen eggs on each level. Collect as much corn from each screen as you can (for bonus points), in the
shortest possible time, without being pecked to death by the crazy hens. Watch out when the daft mother duck is let
loose from the cage on level 9, causing Harry real trouble. You control your man using four direction keys and a jump
key.
Harry starts with five lives, but an extra life is awarded every 10,000 points.
Gameplayers' Acclaim for Chuckie Egg
"Just let me try and beat this ***** bird PLEASE !!!!!!!!!"
Jim of Harrogate north-yorks , uk
Big up the 'egg!
"One of my very first memories is playing this game of sheer brilliance.
Big up the 'egg!"
Lloyd 12:28 28 Nov 2000
Scrambled Eggs
"I used to play this game when I was supposed to be doing my homework,now I'm playing it when I'm supposed to be working
nearly 15 years later! Life is just one big wheel and Chuckie Egg is the blinding white centre!"
Mike 11:18 3 Apr 2001
GamesDomain: The Ian Bell Interview
"... my favourite game ever is "Chuckie Egg" on the BBC. I can't remember who wrote it and technically it was poor but
it was such fun to play once you knew what you were doing."
Ian Bell (co-author of the legendary
Elite) Aug 1995
Stairway To Hell software: games forum :: The best BBC game ever? topic
"Chuckie Egg still just about takes the biscuit as the most playable game ever anywhere on anything. Graphics weren't too hot, animation poor, sound and music OK but the thing played like a dream."
Peter Scott (prolific BBC micro coder, conversion master and author of
Audiogenic's
Thunderstruck trilogy) 21 Feb 2007
Latest News
07/01/2019 - Updated the
History page to slightly clarify that
The Micro User /
Electron User subscriber offers were a distinct cassette of their own and not remainder stock from A'n'F as previously implied.
Also, here's a long-over due link: since May 2016, The Collection Chamber - a site hosting one gamer's pick of hidden gems - has offered
Chuckie Egg Collection, which includes a fairly detailed
comparison and review of a number of CE official releases.
02/01/2019 - Oops. Did someone turn off the lights? Yes, we were offline for a long period - but we're back,
baby!
20/10/2014 - Added pages for the short-lived
Amazon Kindle Fire / Kindle Fire HD
and
Apple iOS Universal releases from Elite Systems.
03/10/2014 - Added a retro remake entry for John Owens'
Chucky
Egg 3D for Net Yaroze from way back in '02.
01/10/2014 - Added a page on Elite Systems'
ZX Spectrum: Elite
Collection for Microsoft Windows RT as well as a work-in-progress link to last year's Kindle Fire versions of
Chuckie Egg in
the Amazon Appstore for Android. Also updated Richard Rose's
Chuckie Egg for PSP overview and
added a new one for the new
PSP port of CE from Insoft, which boasts some great new
graphics.
29/09/2014 - Updated the
FAQ to link to Mark Lomas' native SDL and Windows ports and made
a small update to the
EggStatic entry, including links to forum topics describing the development.
UPDATE: Way back in May 2007, we warned visitors not to purchase the version of CE which was being offered for sale at
chuckie-egg.co.uk, as it was almost certainly someone cashing in by reselling the freely available
Chuckie Egg for Windows port
from Mike Elson. It appears whoever runs the site has, after seven years, finally given up on trying to turn a profit off Mike's hard work
and is now providing the binary-only download directly. We've confirmed that the download is, at time of writing, an unmodified copy of the
last official release, which has long been freely available
from this very site along with
its source code, ever since Mike's last
Chuckie Egg for Windows website expired. Despite the welcome change of heart, don't quite
believe everything you read on that site - it shouldn't take a CE professional long to figure out that as important and playable as Mike's
version is, it is not accurate down "to the very last pixel" and was never designed to be so. That said, it sounds like good news to us.
Finally, German YouTube user Theshadowsnose has recently uploaded
the latest in his
Let's Compare series of videos, which are published on Fridays throughout the summer. In this episode, he evaluates a few of the original
Chuckie Egg releases in his own unique style (mind the bad language!). We reckon he's been a bit harsh on the C64 version which is
only running slowly in the video as he picked the lowest skill level to play, but it's always interesting to hear a fresh perspective. In a
similar vein, we'll also draw attention to Alex Reeves (aka Roly)'s blog post from 2012
comparing the original SPECTRUM 48K and BBC 32K releases
over at
retrogames!now. We reckon he might not be quite as impartial as serious CE fans might hope - but it's an interesting
comparison nevertheless. ;)
21/09/2014 - A few updates to the
Merchandise page, including links
showing where to find CE smartphone cases.
14/09/2014 - Long overdue, we've finally compiled a new disc image called
Chuckie Egg XT
for the BBC Micro which contains the best modern new features applied directly to the executable. Perfect for competition play! Link added
to the Hacks and Upgrades page. Every CE Pro should have this.
12/09/2014 - Got a grand burning a hole in your back pocket? Well, you could always pick up a limited edition
Chuckie Egg artist proof or collectors' print signed by Nigel Alderton from Elite Systems. Link added to the
Merchandise page.
19/08/2014 - Someone challenged us to find Chuckie Egg for the HP TouchPad. Easy! Here's
Chuckie Egg
for the HP TouchPad, Palm Pre 2 and Blackberry PlayBook! Also added links to new
Martin Holland
tribute and
Nigel Alderton interview.
17/08/2014 -
Finally got round to adding information on Rob Edwards'
Chuckie Egg 2013
update to his own remake from 2006. Long overdue!
16/08/2014 - Confirmed that the
Tatung Einstein
release has no loading screen, and added a bit more info. Added pin button badge to
Merchandise page.
13/02/2014 - Added information on two
Scratch 1.4
Chuckie Egg-inspired projects.
03/02/2014 - Replaced the YouTube video above, and fixed the site to work with our spiffing new domain alias
www.chuckie-egg.org.
21/02/2013 - Added a scan of Iain Lee's retrocolumn from Retro Gamer magazine Issue 112 to the
press page, sent in by regular contributor, Pitfall Jones. Thanks, PJ!
22/11/2012 - Bit late reporting this, but 8th November saw the release of a retro gaming special edition, issue 250, of the
free weekly men's lifestyle magazine
ShortList which featured a
Chuckie Egg front cover that,
through the use of the
Blippar smartphone app, can be made 3D interactive and lets you play a fairly lazy
mobile version of
Chuckie Egg. The implementation is disappointingly poor - the gameplay is terrible, level designs are barely recognisable,
whilst most of the graphics are from the Spectrum release but the Harry sprite is from the BBC 32K port!
Blippar recorded 229,178 unique
"blipps" of the issue from over 50,000 individual readers. More info on the promotion
here
and some statistics on how successful the partnership was
here.
You can test it out by installing the
Blippar app from your device's app store (
Android Play Store,
iOS App Store) and then use it to scan
this cover image.
12/09/2012 - Added a brand new ATARI ST map for the 16-bit version of Chuckie Egg II (Choccy Egg) to the
Gameplay page, contributed by the self-confessed massive CE fan, Ego Trip. Wonderfully detailed and a great
resource for both ATARI ST and AMIGA players. Thanks, Ego Trip!
26/08/2012 - Added
Raspberry Pi,
Pandora
information and an entry for
Bootlegger's Chuckie Egg Clone for GBA, along with
general updates to the rest of the
Retro Remakes page.
23/08/2012 - Added compact Atom layout screenshots to the
Levels page.
06/07/2012 - Added Windows binaries and a source code patch file, courtesy of Phil Ashby, for Paul Brook's
authentic clone of BBC 32K Chuckie Egg to the Retro Remakes page.
05/07/2012 - Added Paul Brook's
authentic clone of BBC 32K Chuckie Egg
for Linux to the Retro Remakes page.
02/04/2012 -
WARNING: Eagle-eyed Chuckie Egg collectors may have been surprised last Thursday when
an item
was listed on eBay UK that was described as "Very Rare!!!!!!". Here at Chuckie Egg Towers, we'd certainly never seen the like before. However,
equally as mysteriously, and despite the four bids already placed, the 3-day auction was prematurely ended less than 36 hours later and the seller
failed to respond to questions on the subject. Well, with a bit of
online
research and after hearing from some retro game-selling friends in the field, we're fairly certain that the seller (retro-robust)'s claim that
it was recently re-discovered with a number of other old Spectrum titles and, although not tested recently, it "did work then" is unlikely to be true.
We think the listed item was actually of relatively modern origins and was never an A&F approved product, released in the 80s. The reason neither
we or the good archival folks over at
World of Spectrum have ever heard of SPECTRUM 48K Chuckie Egg in
Microdrive format before, is quite simply because it never existed. That said, so long as you know that what your bidding on is a modern, unofficial
fan-made mock-up, it actually looks like quite a well-made new creation judging from the published photo. However, if the same item is re-listed
again, just don't bid on it thinking you've landed an ultra-rare hitherto undiscovered official item. ;)
05/03/2012 - Added a minor update to
Ste Cork's interview, who dropped by to update us
with his latest views on the digital distribution platform Steam.
11/01/2012 - Added details about a
2009 Windows retro remake by Scott 'slashnburn' Griffiths.
11/01/2012 - Happy New Year, Chuckie Egg fans! A brief first update of the year, is an updated
Merchandise page with a new entry for a SPECTRUM 48K Chuckie Egg ceramic tile.
29/11/2011 - Finally added a
ZX Spectrum: Elite Collection (Vol. 1) page,
describing Elite Systems' Spectrum emulator, which allows Apple iPhone, iPod and iPad users to play the original Spectrum
Chuckie Egg.
It's official, but does it count as a fully-fledged new port? You decide ... A link has also been added to the
FAQ, and
the
History page has been updated.
13/09/2011 - Mark Gilmour produced a rather fantastic isometric 3D view of Chuckie Egg level 7, which has been added
to the
Downloads page.
05/08/2011 - It's fantastic to be able to reveal two awesome new ports of CE,
Atomic Chuckie Egg and
Anaglyphic 3D Chuckie Egg. The first is a new brand port by Kees van Oss to the only Acorn machine which until now has
never received a native port of CE. The other is a remake with a twist from Pitfall Jones, the talented developer who brought us the first playable version of Chuckie Apple.
It applies an anaglyphic sterescopic 3D effect to CE, which requires a pair of glasses with two lenses that are chromatically opposite colours. It's well worth digging
out your old Jaws 3-D specs! Both titles were unveiled at the Homebrew Coding Geekend, a part of the
In Da 80s event held at the
Lass O'Gowrie pub in Manchester, on 16th - 17th July 2011.
21/07/2011 - Fraser of the *./STH forums sent word about Popular Computing Weekly Vol. 4 No. 27 from way
back in 4-10 July 1985, which he's discovered has some rather useful advice for tackling level 32 of the Electron version of Chuckie Egg
on, coincidentally, page 32 -
Tony Kendle's Arcade Avenue column. Thanks for the tip, Fraser!
12/07/2011 - Updated
Merchandise page with information on a SPECTRUM 48K Chuckie Egg mug.
28/06/2011 - Updated
Chuckie Egg SDL Port for PSP on the Retro Remakes
page.
23/06/2011 - Updated T-shirts and added a new one to the
Merchandise
page. Added a new port to the Uzebox by Pitfall Jones to the
Retro Remakes
page.
22/06/2011 - Added three new T-shirts and added news that Ste Cork's
OverKill is now freeware to the
Merchandise page.
10/06/2011 - A small update to the
Levels page to show which hens are
introduced from level 25.
03/07/2010 - We've recently unearthed a hitherto unknown contributor to the 16-bit Amiga and
Atari ST releases of CE. Graphic artist
Neil Thompson has kindly provided us with
an exclusive interview about his time at Icon Design. The
History page has also been updated.
09/03/2010 - More shame for the site, as we have to update the CHUKEE description on the
Hacks & Upgrades
page, along with screenshots from the unmodified cassette version and not the hacked disc image. Also added a link for the
Nigel Alderton interview from
Retro Gamer magazine #40 that is now hosted online
by
NowGamer. Finally, we added a
link to the popular CE
Facebook group.
02/03/2010 - Shamefully, it's taken until today for us to write up Mark Lomas' triple port of Chuckie Egg
that we linked last year, to
Dynamic HTML,
SDL and
Windows.
In our defence we weren't sure what else needed to be said - the GPL source code available for download here should be a real boon for
anyone wanting to create a new port for a modern platform, the articles describing his efforts are well worth reading and, finally, he's
produced ports of Chuckie Egg worthy of vying for the titles of both best online and offline Chuckie Egg. Much respect. He's earned a
mention on the
History page. Updated the
FAQ including a new question to point
prospective new CE porters to Mark's site. Also slightly modified the description of Michael Foot's
Chuckie Egg for RISC OS.
01/03/2010 - General site tidying up today, working around the nasty IE6 CSS. Added Elite Systems' 3D Prototype Models
to the
Downloads page. Added some references to a couple of older Amiga interviews with Gaz Murfin to the
Authors
page. Announced Category #3: Modern PC winner of the
2006 Implementation Challenge. Included entries for
Chuckie Egg for Cybiko,
Chuckie Egg SDL Port for PSP,
FatSeagal's Chuckie Egg 2 - Redux and
Harry's Hen House
for the Atari 7800 on the
Retro Remakes & Unofficial Ports page. Added two new T-shirts to the
Merchandise
page. Updated some of the
Links descriptions.
28/02/2010 - Finally got round to adding information on
Chuckie Egg 2009 for the Electron to the
Hacks & Upgrades page. This is a great release from The Organ Grinder's Monkey, which is now the recommended
package for anyone wanting to create new levels for either the BBC 32K or ELECTRON releases. Also added more information to the
History
page about the development of the J2ME and Android releases.
22/02/2010 - Done a little work on the horrible CSS throughout the site that was hacked to work with IE 6, but looks
bad with modern browsers. Hopefully, it should look OK now on most browsers, if not actually nice. Finally got round to adding information about
the latest official release of
Chuckie Egg for Android, including an
exclusive interview with the port's coder,
Gaz Murfin. Updated the information on the
Authors and
J2ME pages, now that the timeline
and history behind the J2ME port has become a little clearer.
04/02/2010 - To explain the recent outage - after nearly a decade of faithful service, the 16 year old Pentium 75 web
server that has brought you
The Chuckie Egg Professional's Resource Kit finally succumbed to a power glitch yesterday. The site is now
back up on enterprise grade hosting, thanks to a friendly ISP. Of all the souls I have encountered, it's was ... the most. Human.
20/01/2010 - The
Chuckie Egg for Windows website is currently offline. Whilst we eagerly await it's return, we have
mirrored the
Windows installer and source code from the latest version, 1.1.
22/08/2009 - Wow! Here's some big news. We've finally tracked down a disk image for the
Enterprise 128
port of Chuckie Egg. We're still not convinced that this was a proper official release with packaging (contact us if you can help with that!) - as
the Enterprise was home of many unofficial Spectrum fan ports - it's very similar to the Spectrum release, but contains a few tell-tale differences. Check it out!
30/04/2009 - New this year is Mark Lomas'
excellent site documenting his work on re-implementing the original
BBC Micro release as close to perfectly as possible on modern platforms. This includes
DHTML Chuckie Egg for use direct from modern web
browsers (includes a level designer!), and two
new native ports - one for Windows and one for SDL that should compile under Linux.
The source, based on Michael Foot's Risc OS version, is available under GPL and the progress has been exceptionally well documented in a
series of interesting
articles on the site. If you have any interest in
playing a faithful version of CE on modern platforms or even porting it yourself, this site is now essential reading! In other news, GroovyBee
of the AtariAge forums recently revealed his work in progress
Harry's Hen House
, a tribute to Chuckie Egg for the Atari 7800.
14/11/2008 -
CHUCKIE APPLE IS FINALLY HERE!
In time to mark the 25th anniversary of Chuckie Egg, Pitfall Jones has stepped forward with his fantastic Windows interpretation of
Chuckie Apple.
We've played it, and we love it! It's evolved from the original design document, as games have a tendency to do, so it's not a 100% strict implementation
- there are plenty of surprises and it's all the better for it! Happy 25th Anniversary, Chuckie Egg fans! Now it's time to see what might have been, if
the fates had transpired slightly differently over two decades ago ... !
09/09/2008 - Matt White (aka FatSeagal, author of the recent
Chuckie Egg 2 remake)
stopped by to let us know he's taking up the
Chuckie Apple Implementation Challenge, for this year's Retro Remakes
Competition 2008. Future progress updates can be found in the
competition forum.
Harry's already starting to look good:
31/06/2008 - Added screenshots from Tom Walker's (sadly abandoned) attempt at a
Windows port of Chuckie Apple.
29/07/2008 - Another unofficial Chuckie Egg T-shirt, from Weekend Gamer, is added to the
Merchandise
page. Also added information on
Christopher Duffen's Chuckie Egg The New Batch remake from 2004,
GamesForge's
Chuckie Egg for Flash and more recently
FatSeagal's Chuckie Egg 2 remake,
from the Retro Remakes forums. Smila and Stu Ovine
began working on another CE2 remake
earlier this year, but put it on hold as FatSeagal's version was coming on so well.
29/06/2008 - Added another unofficial Chuckie Egg T-shirt, this time from revolution-shirtz, to the
Merchandise
page, along with a men's sleeveless tee from RetroGamer.
16/06/2008 - Added three really cool 3D desktop wallpapers to the
Downloads page, courtesy
of talented visitor
Martin Bastable.
26/02/2008 - Added a scan of The Micro User free CE offer for subscribers to the
Adverts
page and modified the
History page to include it. Also added references to The Making Of...
Chuckie Egg article, published in last August's
Retro Gamer magazine, to the
Authors and
Press pages, as well as the newly-expanded
History
page. Updated
Retro Remakes pages with some info on the development of Mike Elson's
classic
DirectX Chuckie Egg remake.
25/02/2008 - As you probably well know, we've been back for a while. Apologies for the
longer-than-anticipated downtime which was due to our beloved national telecoms company, who managed to mess up our
internet connection. Anyway, we're back now and have added a DOS remake released last year,
Chuckie Eggs the remake for PC
by Jozsef 'Joco' Laszlo as well as a SPECTRUM 48K CE review by Eurogamer to the
Press page.
Neil Crutchlow has also
announced,
due to popular demand, the addition of a new section where you can register and compare your score/level achievements
with other users of his
Flash port of Chuckie Egg, see how far you
got prevously and level skip to get back there. Finally, there's a small promotional image update to the
J2ME
page. There's still some more bits to tidy up after our absence, so we'll be back soon.
12/08/2007 - OK. The Chuckie Egg Professional's Resource Kit has a temporary new
home, courtesy of the fantabulous Venura, whilst we're moving Chuckie Egg Towers to better quarters on campus. This
might take a couple of months, and unfortunately the dynamic comment (forums, polls etc.) will be disabled until
we get back. No updates for a while, but we have some plans for when we get back! See you shortly.
17/06/2007 - Added a new story to the
History page, courtesy
of
Sean Townsend. Added new quotation from Peter Scott to front page.
01/06/2007 - The
Message Board and
Polls are finally working again! Added some links to the
History
page, updated the GP2X and J2ME MIDP2.0 retro remake entries and added a new retro review to the
Press
page - the May issue of the re-launched Retro Gamer magazine saw Chuckie Egg come in at number 8 in the top 25
platformers of all time, as voted for by Retro Gamer readers. The front page has now gone Web 2.0 with a Youtube
video (animated gif moved to downloads page) and, finally, what do you get if you cross a BBC Model B and a brand
new Epson LCD projector? Chuckie Egg
as nature intended!
31/05/2007 -
WARNING!!! It's been brought to our attention that there is a new
website on the block. Unfortunately, it looks like chuckie-egg.co.uk has been setup with the sole purpose of illegally
re-selling Mike Elson's
Chuckie Egg for Windows which is, of course, still
freely available. If this is the case, this is a breach of both the original copyright, as well as a blatant cash-in on
Mike's hard work.
We recommend you do NOT purchase Chuckie Egg for the PC from either this site, or from any of the dubious
eBay sellers who appear to be offering the same thing on Buy It Now. If you have already purchased CE in either of these ways,
get in touch and let us know if it really is Mike Elson's version, as the screenshots imply.
30/05/2007 - Finally got round to updating the
Advertisements page - added some better quality scans and more
ads.
20/05/2007 - OK, it's been far too long, but we have a number of updates coming over the next few days. We'll start with news that
Alan Gorton aka Gunston has been in touch, to provide us with a sneak
YouTube preview of his upcoming
Chuckie X
release, a Microsoft XNA clone of Chuckie Egg, for Windows and the X-Box 360! According to Alan, the graphics are faithful but scaled up slightly for HD screens
and he intends to provide the source code too. It's looking pretty awesome, already ... Alan's Chuckie Egg history goes back somewhat further than this release,
however - his brother was also an old school-mate of
Sean Townsend. It's a small world ...
There's also been an error correction on the Acorn Electron entry, and lots of information on A&F's war on software piracy added to the
History, as well as some
further info on
Mike Webb, who we've apparently lost touch with since his initial contact. :/ Mike, if you ever pop back here, please try getting in touch again!
On better news, guess who else also got in touch?
Sean Townsend ... :) Check out our email interview with the C64 CE guru.
30/10/2006 - Well, it's taken over seven months ;) but James 'hamster' Ryan has finally dug out the hi-res version of his
COMMODORE CM64 Map which was three years old when we first heard about it! Anyway, we're glad to welcome it to a permanent home, where it's already
settled in and has replaced the lo-res version on the
Game Play page. Thanks, James - that just leaves the Amstrad, Amiga
and Atari ST versions left to be mapped ... anyone? :)
21/10/2006 - Thanks go to Jo of relative newcomer site
BBC educational games,
for providing two different releases of BBC 32K CE cassettes. We're steadily building up a complete collection and will eventually include packaging scans for
all CE releases. Many thanks for the donation!
01/10/2006 - Added info on Neil Crutchlow's
GP2X remake of the BBC 32K release of Chuckie Egg.
12/08/2006 - Added a cover scan for Space Panic to the
A&F Releases page and
a link to Kevin Adam's
Cash Dash, a new set of custom graphics for Mike Elson's DirectX Chuckie Egg.
Also added CPC Oxygen to the
Links page.
11/08/2006 -
Finally! Our second world exclusive - the recently unearthed design for
the unreleased sequel to Chuckie Egg, from the original Spectrum author Nigel Alderton. If that wasn't
enough, we're also celebrating the scoop with the launch of a competition to anyone foolhardy enough
to implement it!
21/06/2006 - Added info on Neil Crutchlow's
Flash port of the BBC 32K release of Chuckie Egg.
22/05/2006 - Michael Foot has announced on
usenet
that a new update to his
Chuckie Egg for RISC OS is available courtesy of
Alan Buckley, which adds support for RISC OS 5.xx and the higher resolution screen modes on the
Iyonix
as well as adding the option to use outline fonts for the text. This new 1.04 version will still run on older Acorn hardware
as well but requires RISC OS 3.6 or above.
05/05/2006 - MESS 0.104b added support for the Acorn Electron so it's now possible to run the
Electron
release of Chuckie Egg natively, instead of loading it into the BBC Micro driver.
28/04/2006 - Added more info to the entry on
Egg - The Upgrade on the
Hacks and Upgrades page.
24/04/2006 - Added limited information to a new page on the
CE2 Launch Competition.
Contact us, if you can share more info!
23/04/2006 - Added a new t-shirt to the
Merchandise page,
links
to a C64 emulator to play CE and CE2 online and links to the homepages of a couple of the authors listed on the
Hacks and Upgrades page.
Updated site and Resource Kit with Electron User Group
EUG #21, July 1995 cheat.
19/04/2006 - Here's a cool link - in 2001, Chuckie Egg was the subject of a
scientific study
into the effectiveness of emulation as a digital preservation strategy.
17/04/2006 - Happy Easter! A special treat for all you CE fans - Rob Edwards has released his own
Chuckie Egg Remake.
13/04/2006 - Added a new t-shirt to the
Merchandise page.
09/04/2006 - Added more information on two Spectrum CE editors - the CHUCKIE EGG EDITOR from
Daniel Smith, Mercury Software and the Chuckie Egg Editor Pack from Mulder to
Hacks and Upgrades.
05/04/2006 - Another update, another missing Chuckie Egg file. This time it's Ian Price's
Div Chuckie Egg
which has gone AWOL. It was released to div-arena.com a couple of years ago but is now missing in action.
Let us know, if you have any clues.
26/03/2006 - Added couple of new screenshots for Chuckie Designer from P&M Software to
Hacks and Upgrades
page. Updated Resource Kit with new user-friendly image of BBC 32K extra colours loader disk image, and cleared out duplicate
BBC micro disk images.
25/03/2006 - Updated Amstrad cheats and added link to AA issue which included CE on the covermount
cassette. Also added AA's CE review to
Press page.
19/03/2006 - Updated C64 cheats and added description of known bug for C64 CE 2. Also
added C64 CE 2 walkthrough from ZZAP! 64.
22/11/2005 - Some broken links fixed, quotation from Ian Bell added along with more information
to the
retro remakes page.
30/08/2005 - Added a new response from
Nigel Alderton
as part of our exclusive interview.
15/08/2005 - Added information on
EggStatic,
a new OpenGL / DirectX 8 Windows retro remake which was commercially released less than a fortnight ago by Edo Broekman
(free demo available with 8 levels & 8 training levels). As well as being crammed with new features, this release is
particularly notable as it contains an implementation of the
popularly mis-remembered second duck
(a hawk, in this remake), that has a different speed and acceleration to the first.
26/06/2005 - Having started with the last Chuckie Egg coder of the 80s, we're going back to
the beginning, with the first part of our exclusive interview with the original author of the SPECTRUM 48K release of Chuckie
Egg,
Nigel Alderton! It's a small start, but hopefully we'll be adding more
shortly.
09/06/2005 - After the recent source code scare, Mike Elson renewed development on his
Chuckie Egg for Windows
remake and has just released the long-anticipated 1.1 version. It's time to upgrade, everyone!
26/04/2005 -
The source code for Mike Elson's Chuckie Egg for Windows
has been traced, courtesy of tuppe666 of the happypenguin.org forums. We're
pleased to announce that Mike will soon be reunited with the source code and it can be expected to be available from
his site shortly. Many thanks to all those who got in contact over the past few weeks - your help was greatly appreciated.
Hurrah!! Call off the search parties!
14/04/2005 - Mike Elson's DirectX Chuckie Egg site has been relaunched as
Chuckie Egg for Windows. Sadly, the source code is still missing (see below).
12/04/2005 -
URGENT REQUEST!!! It is with regret that we have to report
Mike Elson's
DirectX Chuckie Egg site has been lost. The biggest loss, it transpires,
has been the DirectX Chuckie Egg source code which may have been lost permanently with the unexpected demise of the site.
This site's authors have been in contact with Mike, with the result that most of the rest of the site should soon return
at a different site, sans the source code.
MIKE HAS APPEALED TO ANYONE WHO DOWNLOADED THE DIRECTX CHUCKIE EGG SOURCE CODE ZIP FILE WHICH, UNTIL RECENTLY,
WAS HOSTED HERE:
http://www.gershwin.force9.co.uk/chuckie/source/chuckie_source.zip 19-mar-1999 21:01 166k
TO PLEASE EMAIL IT EITHER DIRECTLY TO HIM OR TO THE MAINTAINERS OF THIS SITE.
We're making every effort to trace this file and still have a few irons in the fire but, so far, the outlook is bleak. :(
28/11/2004 - More new coverage for Chuckie Egg as it gets a mention in the recently published
PC Action Emulate! special edition magazine.
24/10/2004 - Read their review, as Chuckie Egg reaches number 28 in
Retro Gamer
magazine's top 100 games as voted for by the readers. Presumably, with a +/-27 margin of error ...
16/10/2004 - Welcome to the first version of the site. Our major exclusive for launch is the official
PC (CGA/EGA/TGA) version,
created during the days of Lothlorien, released under the Pick & Choose label and which is now available here for download
for the first time ever on the internet (as far as we know)! Somewhat coincidentally, we've
also managed to successfully track down the chief coder of that same port,
Ste Cork, who we've taken
back down memory lane ...