I’m still playing Taipan. It reminds me of Star Merchant, except for the graphics and the time period. I like the game. It plays well and the interface is fairly clean. One thing I noticed, playing on the color screen…
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Taipan
I discovered this game online called Taipan at www.taipangame.com which is based on a game of the same name written on a TRS-80 and later ported to the Apple II. It is a game based on the China trade of…
Text Adventures, Part VII (Conclusion?)
After spending quite a while trying to find a Windows program that would let me transfer a file from my Windows PC to my Apple II using x or y modem, I had a thought. I moved the ADTPro cable from my…
Text Adventure, Part VI
My goal with my text adventure project is to be able to play the same game on several different systems. In particular, I wanted to run it on my PCs, my Macs and my Apple IIs. As a test, I…
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Text Adventure, Part V
At this point I have not found a compiler the will run on the Apple II line of computers. I do have Inform version 6.32 which will work on Windows 7 and have compiled a sample file. Over the next…
Text Adventure, Part IV
I made a first pass through, attempting to remove the interpreter from Cutthroats. My understanding of what was going on was imperfect to say the least, and the instructions were more for someone who knew what was going on. Years…
Text Adventures, Part III
In my internet travels, yesterday, I stumbled across a couple of things. The first is a set of diskette images containing the Lost Treasures of Infocom for the Apple //gs, from the Big Red Computer Club. Included are two interpreters…
Text Adventures, Part II
A typical text adventure revolves around a pretty simple model: A. Display description (data base). B. Get and execute commands (parser). Repeat A and B until done. One thing I learned way back on the PDP 11/70 was text adventures…
Text Adventures, Part I
For years I have wanted to write a text adventure. Actually decades might be more accurate. The first time I played ADVENT on the PDP 11/70 at school had me hooked. Later we got DUNGEO (ZORK I, II, and III)…
ProDOS Program Selectors, Sneeze, Followup
I liked Sneeze when I tried it on my emulators. I downloaded it to my Apple //c, which only took three tries to find a diskette that would work. The first two seemed to download fine, but when I went…
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