Downloading 2400AD from Apple2Online reveals a two disk set of boot-game disk and player disk. I booted the boot-game disk and had to switch from the boot disk to the player disk and back. Once the game gets started it…
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221b Baker Street
I played Goldfinger for about another hour and never could get a different reaction to anything I might have typed. That being the case I tried another game from Apple2Online, 221b Baker Street. It comes as a 2 diskette set…
007 Goldfinger
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…
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…
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)…
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