I downloaded 007 Goldfinger from Apple2Online. Other than the title, I didn’t know anything about it. I booted it up in AppleWin and it is an Angelsoft Interactive Fiction from Mindscape. I lost pretty quickly. As I try again and…
Blog Archives
Asimov
I have enjoyed playing Taipan and Taipan+ so much I went back to Asimov looking for similar games. There is so much there it is hard to pick one. The things that attracted me to this type of game are…
Taipan+
I have been playing Taipan for a couple of days and went back to download a copy for the simulator on my tablet. There was another one called Taipan+, so I downloaded both. Looking to see what the difference was,…
Taipan 2
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…
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…
Inform 7
I had some internet connectivity issues and while I was getting them straightened out, I started looking at Inform 7. It turns out, I didn’t need to hunt down a separate copy of Inform 6 to create my .Z5 game…
Posted in Apple //gs, Games, Programming, Projects Tagged with: Interactive Fiction, Programming, Projects
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)…
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…
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,…
Posted in Apple //c, Games, Printers, Programming Tagged with: Apple //c, AppleWorks, Games, Programming
Recent Comments