Tag: Graftgold

Creating Fire & Ice for Amiga, as told by Andrew Braybrook!

Anyone self-respecting Commodore Amiga owner must surely be familiar with Graftgold, arguably one of the most prominent and talented British software houses during the 1980’s and 1990’s. Among the talented programmers and artists to work alongside Steve Turner was Andrew Braybrook, author of critically acclaimed Uridium for the Commodore 64, and many other titles; he runs and maintains a personal…

Retro Revisited: Rainbow Islands (ZX Spectrum)

The ZX Spectrum was one of the greatest 8-bit micros of the day and, along with the C64, was one of the predominant 8-bit gaming platform in the UK during the ’80s and ’90s. With any popular platform, publishers were always looking to increase software sales and one of the most popular and lucrative genres was the arcade conversion. Coders…

Unofficial CD32 Release, Graftgold: The Complete Amiga Works

A new year, time for a new release for the CD32, and another in the Publisher/Developer series, this time Graftgold, a independent developer that made some great Amiga games over a 7 year period from 1989 to 1995. The games included on the disc are; Empire Soccer Fire & Ice Fire & Ice CD32 Fire & Ice Xmas Demo Paradroid…