Monthly Archives: February 2014

Ultima I

I’ve been playing Ultima I, in Kegs, on my tablet.  I really like being able to play this way.  I can take it with me really easily and play on the go. Progress was going pretty well until I failed

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Nostalgia

You have probably noticed I do a lot of posts on games for the Apple II.  At this point in my life, entertainment is the primary use for the Apple II.  Specifically, nostalgia. When I originally bought my Apple //c,

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Ultima I, Zork

I’ve been kind of bouncing around between games in my free time.  I found Ultima I is more action oriented and Zork is more thought oriented. I can now pop into Ultima I, for a quick 10 or 15 minutes,

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Zork

I had some free, quiet time, to veg out this afternoon, so I loaded up my copy of Zork (I).  I didn’t play for long, but did manage to kill the Troll fairly handily.  It brought back some memories of

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Dukedom

I was exploring Macgui.com today in the Apple II download section.  I was looking at different adventure games and ran across a Dos 3.3 disk called text adventures.  The directory showed what looks like seven different games and a disk

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System 6

I have a wireless keyboard and mouse from Microsoft.  Instead of a little dongle, like the wireless mice have now, they use a big one.  It is about the size of an old style wired mouse and the wire is

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Oops!

I had yesterdays post all written and thought I had posted it.  Tonight when I came on to work on this post, I found I hadn’t posted it.  Now I have. I spent the last couple of hours looking specifically

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Ultima I

This morning I downloaded The Oregon Trail and Ultima I to play under Kegs. I spent about an hour playing Ultima I.  It plays almost as well under Kegs as it does on my Apple //c, better in some ways. 

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Kegs IIgs Emulator

This morning I had some time to look for the Kegs files on my Android.  Turns out they are buried in the Android folder under data. Once I found the Images folder, where the disk images are stored for Kegs,

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Kegs IIgs Emulator

My Android tablet is a fairly inexpensive one.  It is an iRulu 7″.  The package contained the tablet, a carrying case that has a small keyboard that plugs into the micro USB slot and a charger.  I normally don’t use

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