I worked on my challenge for a short time while watching a movie, The Prince of Persia. I thought it was fitting to be working on an Apple II game while watching a movie inspired by iconic Apple II game. It’s funny,…
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Retrochallange 2015/01 Third Post
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Retrochallenge 2015/01 Second Post
In order to play Eamon you need at least one diskette from the Eamon Library. The Main Hall and Beginners Cave (EAMON001.DSK) is where everything starts, and hopefully ends. In order to create more adventures a second diskette, the Dungeon…
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Retrochallenge 2015/01 (Winter Warmup)
Retrochallenge 2015/01 starts today. To learn more about it use the Retrochallange link under Links & Disk Images. I’ve had a fascination with Eamon ever since I first found it, about twenty years ago. I like the whole concept of carrying…
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Flapple Bird
I’ve seen several postings announcing Flapple Bird, an arcade style game for the Apple II. I looked at the posted video and was intrigued. I downloaded it to my Linux laptop and tried it in AppleWin and liked it. I…
Robotron 2084, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’
Robotron 2084 was downloaded from MacGui as well. I tested it in AppleWin and one of the early screens shows the keyboard commands. I downloaded it to my Apple //c using ADTPro 1.2.8 onto a disk I have used before. …
Galaxians, ‘New Apple 2c user needs help plz’
Prompted by a posting on MacGui ,’New Apple 2c user needs help plz’. I downloaded Galaxians from MacGui to my Windows PC. It is a .GZ file, so I extracted the disk image with 7-Zip. Starting up AppleWin, I booted Galaxians,…
Borg
Borg is an arcade style game playable using paddles, joystick or keyboard. You control your character, a stick figure which starts on the left side of the screen, using the A key to go up, the Z key to move…
Border Zone
There are two diskette images in the Border Zone package. Border Zone is an Infocom text adventure. I don’t think I ever played it before, which is kind of weird, because I own a copy. It is part of Infocom’s…
Blitzkreg – Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a simple arcade style game. It is simple, but entertaining. You control a gun on the right side of the screen, trying to protect your gun and the land across the rest of the screen from planes flying…
Blade of Blackpoole
Blade of Blackpoole is a graphic text adventure on a single diskette image. The graphics are not what I would call impressive, but the area where you interact with the parser is much larger at eight lines rather than the…
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