Tile World is an
emulator for the many-platformed game
Chip's Challenge, first conceived in the middle of
2001, and can be modified or distributed under the Gnu
GPL. It is intended to be a
portable program, allowing those who have not played one of the
two versions of Chip's Challenge to enjoy both; the program can be installed on a
Windows machine or a
Linux machine (but it hasn't been compiled for the
Macintosh yet). It has been developed at the
annexcafe.chips.challenge newsgroup, mainly by
Brian Raiter, with a lot of bug-finding and
artwork creation done by
Anders Kaseorg. In Tile World's's current release (version 0.10.6), the program is able to emulate almost perfectly both the
Lynx and
Microsoft game logic systems (though not at the same time; the two game logics are
mutually exclusive). It allows you to switch between different level sets for the game, and keeps track of your best times, allowing you to
playback your best solutions for a level.
Here's a list of the major versions released, in chronological order:
- Version 0.0, May 19, 2001
- Version 0.1, July 15, 2001
- Version 0.5, August 19, 2001 (ALPHA RELEASE)
- Version 0.6.0, October 5, 2001
- Version 0.7.0, October 21, 2001
- Version 0.8.0, October 28, 2001
- Version 0.9.0, December 3, 2001
- Version 0.10.0, January 3, 2002
- Version 0.10.6, April 6, 2002
- Version 1.0, May 6, 2002 (PUBLIC RELEASE)
So far there have been 24 revisions (not all are listed above), with the program reaching "alpha" status at version 0.5 and public release status at version 1.0.
In case you want to try out Tile World, it can be downloaded from Brian Raiter's website at
http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tworld/