DotEmu
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DotEmu is a French video game company created in 2007 by Xavier Liard and Romain Tisserand, with its headquarters in France
. This company initially dedicated to B2B
adaptation and emulation of old games and now provides a B2C distribution service on dotemu.com.
Distribution service: Users can purchase old PC games by download, get iPhone
/iPod Touch
games from the iTunes Store
or directly play online games in their web browser
.
of old games on today’s platforms: PC, iPhone
/iPod Touch
and Web/Flash games
. Games are packaged using in-house emulation software, binary patched or bundled using Open Source
emulation such as ScummVM
and DOSBox
.
As of May 6, 2010, 7 games
have been adapted by DotEmu:
, Flash games and iPhone/iPod touch binary patched, emulated or ported from old video games.
As of May 14, 2010, DotEmu’s catalogue is made up of 36 games. Either available on PC, iPhone
/iPod Touch
or online, games are added on a weekly basis and are mostly multilingual.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of some PC games distributed on DotEmu.com:
France
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. This company initially dedicated to B2B
Business-to-business
Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...
adaptation and emulation of old games and now provides a B2C distribution service on dotemu.com.
Distribution service: Users can purchase old PC games by download, get iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
/iPod Touch
IPod Touch
The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...
games from the iTunes Store
ITunes Store
The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple. Opening as the iTunes Music Store on April 28, 2003, with over 200,000 items to purchase, it is, as of April 2008, the number-one music vendor in the United States...
or directly play online games in their web browser
Web browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
.
Products’ history
Launched in February 2007, DotEmu is dedicated to emulation and fast portingPorting
In computer science, porting is the process of adapting software so that an executable program can be created for a computing environment that is different from the one for which it was originally designed...
of old games on today’s platforms: PC, iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
/iPod Touch
IPod Touch
The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...
and Web/Flash games
Game
A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements...
. Games are packaged using in-house emulation software, binary patched or bundled using Open Source
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
emulation such as ScummVM
ScummVM
ScummVM is a collection of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system , it now also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus...
and DOSBox
DOSBox
DOSBox is emulator software that emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS. It is intended especially for use with old PC games. DOSBox is free software....
.
As of May 6, 2010, 7 games
Game
A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements...
have been adapted by DotEmu:
- Nicky Boom 1 (developed by MicroïdsMicroïdsMicroïds is a French software brand belonging to Anuman Interactive that publishes and develops video games. In recent years the company's collection of brands and game licenses has grown since being a part of MC2 France...
) adapted on PC, Smartphone, iPhone/iPod Touch, Internet - Nicky 2 (developed by MicroïdsMicroïdsMicroïds is a French software brand belonging to Anuman Interactive that publishes and develops video games. In recent years the company's collection of brands and game licenses has grown since being a part of MC2 France...
) adapted on PC, Windows iPhone/iPod Touch, Internet - Krypton EggKrypton EggKrypton Egg is a Breakout clone developed in 1988 by Alexandre Kral on Atari ST and Amiga 500/600 .-Summary:Like other games of the same kind, you have to break each brick of the stage to clear the level and be able to go to the next one. However, there are several bonus which fall from broken...
(developed by HitSoft) adapted on PC and iPhone/iPod Touch - GolvelliusGolvelliusGolvellius is an action adventure video game for the Japanese MSX home computer system. It was developed by Compile and released in .Sega licensed the franchise in 1988 and released their own remake of the game for the Sega Master System , featuring enhanced graphics and entirely different...
(developed by D4Entreprise) adapted on iPhone/iPod Touch - Boulder DashBoulder DashBoulder Dash, originally released in 1984 for Atari 8-bit computers, is a series of computer games released for the Apple II, MSX, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and ColecoVision home computers, and later ported to the NES, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, PC, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and many other platforms...
Classic & Arcade (developed by First Star SoftwareFirst Star SoftwareFirst Star Software, Inc. is a computer game development, publishing and licensing company, founded by Richard Spitalny and Fernando Herrera in 1982. It is best known for its classic Boulder Dash franchise and Spy vs. Spy titles, originally written for 8-bit home computers like the Apple II, Atari...
) adapted on PC & Internet - Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter IIis a competitive fighting game originally released for the arcades in . It is the arcade sequel to the original Street Fighter released in and was Capcom's fourteenth title that ran on the CP System arcade hardware...
- Champion Edition (developed by CapcomCapcomis a Japanese developer and publisher of video games, known for creating multi-million-selling franchises such as Devil May Cry, Chaos Legion, Street Fighter, Mega Man and Resident Evil. Capcom developed and published Bionic Commando, Lost Planet and Dark Void too, but they are less known. Its...
) adapted on Internet/Flash with the association of GametapGameTapGameTap is an American online video game service established by Turner Broadcasting System . Dubbed by TBS as a "first of its kind broadband gaming network", the service provides users with classic arcade video games and game-related video content...
. - Silmarils Collection (developed by SilmarilsSilmarils (company)Silmarils is a French computer game software company named after the Silmarils of J. R. R. Tolkien's saga.Silmarils was founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and Andre Rocques. It produced games for PC, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Macintosh, Atari ST and Atari Falcon....
): 16 games such as Ishar Trilogy, Robinson's RequiemRobinson's RequiemRobinson's Requiem is a 1994 survival simulation game developed by Silmarils and published by ReadySoft. Players assume the role of Officer Trepliev, a member of the fictional Alien World Exploration department, whose spacecraft is sabotaged to crash land on a prison planet called Zarathustra...
, DeusDeusDeus is Latin for "god" or "deity".Latin deus and dīvus "divine", are descended from Proto-Indo-European *deiwos, from the same root as *Dyēus, the reconstructed chief god of the Proto-Indo-European pantheon...
, TransarcticaTransarcticaTransarctica is a 1993 computer game made by the French company Silmarils for the Amiga and ported to the PC, Atari ST, MAC and Atari Falcon...
, etc. adapted in PC. - GobliiinsGobliiinsThe Gobliiins series consists of four puzzle adventure games developed and released by Coktel Vision in the early 1990s for the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Mac platforms. The fourth title was released in 2009...
Trilogy (developed by Coktel VisionCoktel VisionCoktel Vision is a French computer game developer.The company developed adventure and action games in the mid-1980s. It was especially known as a computer game publisher of its subsidiary Tomahawk. None of Tomahawk's games were sold outside Europe...
) available on PC and soon on iPhone/iPod touch - Raptor: Call of the ShadowsRaptor: Call of the ShadowsRaptor: Call of the Shadows is a 2D raster graphics vertical scrolling shoot 'em up single player game for the x86 PC originally written for MS-DOS, by Cygnus Studios...
2010 Edition (developed by Mountain King StudiosMountain King StudiosMountain King Studios is a computer game company located in Chicago, IL. It was founded by game programmer/game designer Scott Host.- Games :*Galactix...
) available on PC - R-TypeR-Typeis a side scrolling shoot-em-up arcade game produced by Irem in 1987. The player controls a space fighter named R-9a "Arrowhead" to defend humanity against a mysterious but powerful alien life-form known as "Bydo", which was later discovered to be not entirely alien in origin...
for Android. http://www.amazon.com/DotEmu-R-Type/dp/B005NA3B8U/ref=pd_ts_zgc_mas_2478844011_1_i?ie=UTF8&s=mobile-apps&pf_rd_p=1295070102&pf_rd_s=right-9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=2478844011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0EH5AQ9X1P7DMW8W3WCG
DotEmu, a games distributor
On May 6, 2010 DotEmu opens its own online distribution service on DotEmu.com gathering computer gamesComputer Games
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, Flash games and iPhone/iPod touch binary patched, emulated or ported from old video games.
As of May 14, 2010, DotEmu’s catalogue is made up of 36 games. Either available on PC, iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
/iPod Touch
IPod Touch
The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...
or online, games are added on a weekly basis and are mostly multilingual.
Below is a non-exhaustive list of some PC games distributed on DotEmu.com:
- Atlantis 3 & Atlantis EvolutionAtlantis EvolutionAtlantis Evolution is a fantasy adventure computer game developed by The Adventure Company and published by Dreamcatcher Interactive, and released in 2004. It's the fourth in the Atlantis series by Cryo, and the first one made by The Adventure Company. Unlike the second and the third game in the...
(developed by Cryo InteractiveCryo InteractiveCryo Interactive Entertainment is a French video game development and publishing company founded in 1992, but existing unofficially since 1989 as a developer group under the name Cryo...
) - Broken SwordBroken SwordBroken Sword is a video game series created by game designer Charles Cecil of Revolution Software. The game series revolves around the adventures of Idaho-born George Stobbart and the French Nico Collard in several fictitious stories based on history and mythology. The first two games in the series...
2 & 3 (developed by Revolution SoftwareRevolution SoftwareRevolution Software Ltd. is a British adventure game company, based in York in northern England.The company was founded in 1990 by Charles Cecil, Tony Warriner, David Sykes and Noirin Carmody...
) - GobliiinsGobliiinsThe Gobliiins series consists of four puzzle adventure games developed and released by Coktel Vision in the early 1990s for the Amiga, Atari ST, PC and Mac platforms. The fourth title was released in 2009...
Trilogy (developed by Coktel VisionCoktel VisionCoktel Vision is a French computer game developer.The company developed adventure and action games in the mid-1980s. It was especially known as a computer game publisher of its subsidiary Tomahawk. None of Tomahawk's games were sold outside Europe...
) - Maupiti Island (developed by LankhorLankhorLankhor was a French video game company, notable for producing Mortville Manor, the first video game to feature speech synthesis during gameplay....
) - SyberiaSyberiaSyberia is a 2002 computer adventure game conceived by Benoît Sokal, developed by Microïds and published through The Adventure Company. It follows the protagonist Kate Walker as she attempts to wrap up a sale on the behalf of her law firm...
1 & 2 (developed by MicroïdsMicroïdsMicroïds is a French software brand belonging to Anuman Interactive that publishes and develops video games. In recent years the company's collection of brands and game licenses has grown since being a part of MC2 France...
) - CommandosCommandosCommandos is a stealth-oriented real-time tactics game series, available for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. The game is set in the Second World War and follows the escapades of a fictional British Commandos section. It leans heavily on historical events during WWII to carry the plot...
1 & 2 & 3 (developed by Pyro StudiosPyro StudiosPyro Studios is a video game developer based in Madrid , that was founded in 1996 with the purpose of developing quality video games. A consequence of this commitment was the development of Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, which was released in 1998...
)
External links
- DotEmu official website
- DotEmu corporate website
- http://www.industrygamers.com/releases/8414/
- http://www.pcgamersworld.com/2010/05/grand-opening-of-dotemu-com-online-store/
- http://uk.wireless.ign.com/articles/102/1027462p1.html
- http://toucharcade.com/2008/12/08/classic-platformer-nicky-boom-comes-to-the-iphone/
- http://toucharcade.com/2009/02/08/classic-arkanoid-clone-krypton-egg-comes-to-the-iphone/
- http://www.afjv.com/studios/dotemu.htm
- http://www.jeuxvideo.com/news/2010/00042520-dotemu-ou-le-retour-des-vieilleries.htm
- http://www.canardpc.com/news-46150-le_6_mai__dotemu_les_tous_.html
- http://www.jeuxvideopc.com/news/28329-dotemucom-ouvre-portes.php
- http://www.01net.com/editorial/515904/dotemu-les-archeologues-du-jeu-video/