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Games and TV

Have you ever sat down t watch TV and can’t find any thing you want to see right now? Sometimes I have that happen with the computer.  Tonight, I wanted to play a game on my Apple //c.  I’m more

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Prince of Persia

I’ve seen the movie and decided to try the game.  I found a copy of it on Asimov and downloaded it to my Apple //c.  I got the 800K .2mg version since I have a 3 1/2 inch drive figuring

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Forbidden Castle

I’ve been lost on Forbidden Castle, playing that is.  What little time I’ve had for the Apple II was spent playing the opening of Forbidden Castle and trying to get around the Ogre.  

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Old Games, More Asteroids Etc.

I tried playing Asteroid in AppleWin and the screen was blurry, so I tried several different settings until I found one that worked for me,  Monochrome  (White).  Although I like Asteroid, eye hand coordination is not my strongest suit, so

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Old Games, Asteroid

Along the lines of last nights post I was looking at some more Apple II games.  It took only a short time to find one that was interesting. I found a copy of Asteroid on Apple2Online tonight.  It is much

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Old Games

I’ve played computer games since the late 1970’s and the thing that is really remarkable is how addictive they can be. Each level of technology that we run our games through has its own amount of addictiveness.  Some of the

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Get Lamp

That’s the name of a documentary about text adventures or interactive fiction by Jason Scott.  He’s also done a documentary BBS: The Documentary. I had heard about them both some time ago, but had not decided to get either one. 

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More Eamon

The other day when I was looking for Bunny, I found two games that interested me, today, I went back and tried out #182, Farmer Brown’s Woods.  One thing I meant to mention the BOOTD3.DSK was not the one needed

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Eamon and Power

I mentioned some Eamon games I found the other day while looking for a game from a magazine.  Today I had a chance to play one of them, #181, The Eamon Sewer System.  To say I played it, would be

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Color

Ultima I still has my interest.  I’ve really been enjoying playing it on the color screen.  It’s a minor thing, the color, but it increases the enjoyability of the game quite a bit, although the sound effects are kind of

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