David H Schroeder

I am author of several bestselling home computer games from the 1980's, including:

CRISIS MOUNTAIN              DINO EGGS              SHORT CIRCUIT

and    HO! HO! HO! Five Family CHRISTMAS GAMES.

Updated June 2026:  I am now revisiting the 8-bit code I wrote over 40 years ago,
creating Special Editions for each of my original games.

Each Special Edition will add many new features and variations to the original.
Some of these features I've had in mind since the 1980's.
Some are crazy new ideas for each game added just for fun.

Each Special Edition will be in .DSK format, playable on all Apple ]['s and Apple ][ emulators,
staying true to the original Apple's 48K RAM, 1 MHz speed, and those wonderfully huge hi-res pixels.

When complete, each game's DSK file will be available for download and sharing from this website.

This project will likely take years.

Please contact me if you:
-- are interested in helping test one or more of these Special Edition games as they reach alpha/beta.
-- have ideas about how best to spread the word about them.
-- have thoughts on how or where the final DSKs can be archived or sold.

A full-featured revival of my 1983 game DINO EGGS is now on sale

for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.

 

DINO EGGS: REBIRTH is a faithful re-creation of the original 8-bit game -- 

-- and an expansion of the DINO EGGS mythology

with many new challenges and puzzles.

 

 

Here's the DINO EGGS: REBIRTH website!

 

 

Check out all of the new screens, new levels, and new puzzles.

You can purchase the game on Steam or in the Humble Bundle Store.

 

 

DINO EGGS:

Saving the dinosaurs from extinction

-- one egg at a time -- since 1983

DINO EGGS (1983) was also known to many as DINO SMURF.

 

DINO SMURF -- a widely-distributed parody of DINO EGGS (and of course Smurfs) -- was the first part of a planned trilogy of hacked games by Dead Smurf Software (Andrew Johnson and Preston Nevins).  Castle Smurfenstein (Castle Wolfenstein) was the second part of the trilogy.

In DINO SMURF, Time Master Tim became Smurf Butcher Bob, as he tried to save his children by going back in time and destroying the smurf's prehistoric ancestors (including the now extinct orange smurfs).

 

More about the Dead Smurf Software Trilogy...

I also created art, animation, and music for the Melbourne House/Synergistic Software game

WAR IN MIDDLE EARTH.  Aaron Willis is doing a great job in collecting original materials from that game.

Here is the game's Wikipedia page.

 

Here Aaron's WAR IN MIDDLE EARTH website...    Here is Aaron's WIME Facebook Page...