Here you can find two simple games for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows available for free download.

• Stockem - a series of fiendish puzzles
• Thieves - a classic card game for one-player
• Historical Technical Stuff - some technical notes on how these games were made

Stockem

A puzzle game with a simple premise, Stockem starts easy but soon gets fiendishly difficult. The aim is to fill all of the 'parking spaces' with 'marbles' by simply pushing them around a maze-like board. From the screen shots shown here, you can see how tricky things can get. I recently played this for the first time in years so I could grab those screenshots and it took me about 6 attempts to get as far as I have done in level 13. It's not as easy as it was when I'd just created it...

Historical note: It would appear that Stockem is actually a version of the popular Sokoban game. I have no idea why I decided to call my version "Stockem"...

Download the Setup Program (134 KB) to install Stockem.

Thieves

A classic card game for solo play, Thieves includes a scoring system and high score table that remembers your best plays.

Download the Setup Program (163 KB) to install Thieves

Historical Technical Stuff

These games were written by me in 1992 (ish) using QBasic. At university in 1996 I stumbled across a QuickBasic compiler, and produced executable versions that could be run independently of the QBasic IDE. These games originally ran under MS-DOS on my 16MHz Amstrad 80286, but will still work fine today on the latest PCs running Windows. Please let me know if you like them.