I made a first pass through, attempting to remove the interpreter from Cutthroats. My understanding of what was going on was imperfect to say the least, and the instructions were more for someone who knew what was going on. Years…
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Text Adventures, Part III
In my internet travels, yesterday, I stumbled across a couple of things. The first is a set of diskette images containing the Lost Treasures of Infocom for the Apple //gs, from the Big Red Computer Club. Included are two interpreters…
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)…
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.
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…
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. …
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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Z-Machine Interpreter
Awhile ago I was looking for a z-machine interpreter for the Apple II. As far as I can tell none exist on their own. There were three that I found, two were for the Apple //gs, but the third was…
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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