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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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What can you do?

What can you do with an Apple II? I started this post in May of this year, but put it aside in favor of something else. I’ve used the Apple II to create documents, do spread sheets, and create databases;

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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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Apple II Games, Part 2

So, still thinking about games, I went back online to the place I should have started, Asimov.  They had all the games on my list. Several had both the 140K and 800k disk images, unfortunately the only version of Shogun

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Apple II Games

I’ve been thinking about games for the Apple II.  Whenever you talk to somebody about their first experiences with an Apple II (or read about them), the subject of games almost always comes up. I think from time to time,

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Today.. Today..

Well first off, life in general happened today.  All the little projects that did not get done during the last week, needed attention, so I didn’t have as much time to play as I expected. I did hook up my

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