I downloaded the ProDos versions of Eamon in order to play them. Eamon is a text adventure gaming system written in AppleSoft and designed so others may create text adventures. Donald Brown wrote the original system and a small adventure called the Beginners Cave. I recommend going to the Eamon Adventurer’s Guild Online for more historical information.
In this system you start each adventure by creating or selecting an existing character. This is done using the Main Hall or the Graphics Main Hall disk. The purist in me prefers the Main Hall over the Graphics Main Hall because I just prefer to play text adventures with text.
The Main Hall disk is called EAMON001.DSK and the Graphics Main Hall is called EAMONGMH.DSK and both require a ProDos boot disk. You can make a bootable copy of either one by deleting the file PLAYER.MANUAL and copying PRODOS and BASIC.SYSTEM to the disk. The Graphics Main Hall reminds me of being in a castle or city in Ultima.
The main difference between Eamon and other text adventures is character development. When you first start to play, you create a character. As you play the character’s skills, equipment, abilities and wealth grows. The character can move from one adventure to the next.
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I think I’m finished setting up my desktop PC for now. The PC is all up to date, and I have installed the latest versions of ADTPro, AppleWin and CiderPress. Everything works as it should and I can get back to doing more Apple II stuff.
On the Linux side of things, I created an Application Launcher for AppleWin and added it to the Unity Panel on Ubuntu Linux Laptop. Basically this is like creating a batch file on your desktop. This particular one opens AppleWin with Wine (AppleWin is a Windows program and Wine allows you to use Windows programs on your Linux machine.) The key point here is you can run AppleWin on a Linux machine.
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