Blackbeard's Island

Blackbeard's Island intro screen #1 Blackbeard's Island intro screen #2
Blackbeard's Island intro screens
Blackbeard's Island intro screen #3 Blackbeard's Island game screen
Blackbeard's Island intro and game screens
Blackbeard's Island end of game screen

Blackbeard's Island end of game screen

Blackbeard's Island is the only commercial game put out by Greg Miller (and/or is his usual partner at the time, Eric Gavriluk).. they usually put out application programs or utilities (one or both of them did McPaint, Greg-E-Term, CC2Mac picture view, CC3Mac picture viewer, Color Max 3, and Color Max 3 Deluxe). According to Greg, they had started writing some other games together, but none were ever completed or released.
Blackbeard's Island itself is a graphics adventure game where you trying to escape from a volcanic island, and at the same time find and take Blackbeard's treasure with you. Eric Nelson helped design the game, and Greg's sister Pamela Dawn drew the graphics.

Title: Blackbeard's Island

Author: Greg Miller, design by Eric Nelson, art by Pamela Dawn Miller

Publisher: Novasoft (Tom Mix Software subsiduary)

Released: late 1984

Requires: Color Computer 1,2,3, 32K RAM disk only.

Download BLACKBEARD.ZIP. This contains the .DSK image of the game. LOADM "BLACKB", and then type "EXEC" to start the game.

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