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…
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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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. …
Retro Fever
Following comp.sys.apple2, I saw another announcement from the creator of Lamb Chops, which I mentioned in November. He has released a new game called Retro Fever. It is an arcade style game along the lines of Lamb Chops. I’ve posted…
Games Past, Lem, Part 5
Working on debugging this program has been a challenge. In order to debug it to the book I have been trying to recreate the run that is shown in the book. The first column of the actual play at the…
Games Past, Lem, Part 4
Part of yesterdays project, reorganization, was to let both my Apple computers be close enough to the printer to share it. I’ve been trying to debug from one screen to another, which quite often is enough. I’m finding with Lem,…
Games Past, Rocket
I slowly working my way through Lem with the debugging. The fuzzy print of the scans is making it slower, so I’m hoping I can find my copy of Basic Computer Games and the print will be clearer. In the…
Games Past, Lem, Part 3
I started on debugging today. I ran the program as shown in the book answering no to having flown before and metric to system measurement. The directions scrolled past like lightning, so I missed most of them as they scrolled…
Games Past, Lem, Part 2
I finished typing in Lem today. Debugging is going to take a little longer because of the size. It is more than twice the size of Lunar and the scans are a little fuzzy. I should be done tomorrow and…
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