Sadly our next entry is for a game that wasn’t abandoned many years ago, but was only abandoned around a year ago. A recent and new development during an exciting time for C64 users.
Top-Hole Golf was being produced by Matthew Clarke, and was a really nice Leaderboard style game. It seems it was in development for a few years, and the developer had a Gitlab page up for the game with all the source code.
The game was based on an earlier 2017 game competition entry called Beechings Golf and Country Club. More details can be found in the Lemon64 thread about this link.
The developer decided that they didn’t want to do any C64 development any more or any other type of development, classing his game as abandonware. It is really sad to hear this, and a shame that someone of Matthew’s talent has decided to call it a day in general. Hopefully he may reconsider some day after a break.
Thanks to the anonymous contributor who flagged up the manual, which we have added here. We have also added the source archive which was flagged up to us by Zzarko, Dan and LiqMatrix after a 1.6 release was made in March 2022.
For now, check out what was a nice and exciting golf game – sadly now never to be.
Contributions: Jazzcat, Zzarko, Dan, LiqMatrix
Supporting content
Available downloads
- Source_golf-main (zip)
- Preview_TopHoleGolf (zip)
- Top_Golf_Instructions (pdf)
Gallery
Update history
- 20/03/22 – Added source code and 1.6 version thanks to Zzarko, Dan and LiqMatrix
- 08/03/22 – Added link to previous game thanks to LiqMatrix.
- 06/03/22 – Added manual.
A real shame, this was shaping up nicely after competing in the Forum64 Sports Competition
Code for v1.6 of the game is available here: https://github.com/endstation/golf
I’ve been able to open the holes in the Tiled layout editor and am investigating how those get turned into playable data for the game. It’d be neat to see the other courses finished up.
Thanks Dan, will get the page updated! :)
This seems to be the source code mirror:
https://github.com/endstation/golf
Thanks Zzarko, will get the page updated! :)
Final preview version 1.6 as mentioned on IRN: http://www.indieretronews.com/2022/03/top-hole-golf-love-c64-game-of-golf-by.html
Thanks LiqMatrix, will get the page updated! :)
An interesting side note. Looks like it got its beginnings here: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=165153
As noted by the author in this thread: https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=76255 (towards the bottom)
Great spot, and thanks LiqMatrix – i’ll update the page quickly.