Virtual Apple ][: Browser embedded game design lessons
Via Darren Gladstone's latest PC World column, a good way to wile away the weekend with Virtual Apple ][, a browser-embedded Apple II and IIgs emulator last mentioned on the Mother Boing in 2004, but now cross-browser/platform compatible in its 4.0 iteration (though IIgs emulation still requires Windows).
As Gladstone points out, the 1250+ images in stock means you can take a trip through some of gaming's earliest landmarks that took us where we are today, from Fallout progenitor Wasteland to Beyond Castle Wolfenstein to Ultima and Wizardry to--... ah, who are we kidding, let's just label this one the Official Play-Oregon Trail-In-Your-Browser Site.
Classic Apple II Games That Inspired Today's Greats [PC World]
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#1 – 1:21 PM January 16, 2009
And yesterday, the internet gave us this little slice of Oregon Trail...
mdh
#2 – 9:30 AM January 17, 2009
Whenever I've played OT in the last few yeares Cheney has got dysentery and Rumsfeld has drowned.
It's been a long road.
Doug Sharp
#3 – 2:55 PM January 19, 2009
I used Virtual Apple II to replay some ChipWits levels -
http://virtualapple.org/chipwitsdisk.html
- because I'd lost my source code and needed to remap them for ChipWits II:
http://chipwits.com .
In '85 I coded the Apple II game in FORTH, porting it from the Mac version and then doing a C-64 version. You'll notice in the Apple II version that we ported the pulldown Mac menus as well.