Virtual Apple
This > sliced bread.
An online archive of disk images for all the old Apple ][ games. These are what got me forever hooked on computers, some 20 years agone. Note that there is an integrated emulator, so you can play them online by simply clicking on them. The emulator requires ActiveX, so you'll have to use Internet Exploder instead of Firefox.
And that, by the way, is the ultimate irony. Everyone who remembers the early 1980's will also remember that the premier home computer and gaming system of the day was the Apple ][ series. Microsoft's DOS for the IBM family of computers was a poor country cousin. In those days, you'd walk into a software store and see rows upon rows of Apple software, with only a couple of paltry offerings for IBM machines. Today, I can play all those great old Apple games over this new-fangled contrivance called the internet--but I have to use Microsoft's proprietary software and API to do it.
An online archive of disk images for all the old Apple ][ games. These are what got me forever hooked on computers, some 20 years agone. Note that there is an integrated emulator, so you can play them online by simply clicking on them. The emulator requires ActiveX, so you'll have to use Internet Exploder instead of Firefox.
And that, by the way, is the ultimate irony. Everyone who remembers the early 1980's will also remember that the premier home computer and gaming system of the day was the Apple ][ series. Microsoft's DOS for the IBM family of computers was a poor country cousin. In those days, you'd walk into a software store and see rows upon rows of Apple software, with only a couple of paltry offerings for IBM machines. Today, I can play all those great old Apple games over this new-fangled contrivance called the internet--but I have to use Microsoft's proprietary software and API to do it.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:51
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Well I would say Apple had it coming that is what you get when trying to horde everything for yourself. Sooner or later it will bite you in ass. I can say from current experience they did have the market for schools, but out here we have insisting that the schools buy PCs for that same reason lack of software. Also the mainstream private sector all use PCs. Well unless you’re a newspaper reporter for the NY times!
Oh yea of short memory. What was the computer that you where using in Oki? Name the game that you hooked me with and please indulge us on how you cheated to get the Medal of Honor on that game to show up a fellow jarhead!
The computer was an IBM PS/2 Model 25, and the game was F-19 Stealth Fighter from MicroProse, written by the legendary Sid Meier.
As I remember, I actually bought that computer in Okinawa, at the computer store on Kadena AFB. I rode the jarhead bus all the way back to Hansen with that computer. I later shipped it to Hawaii. Tough little brute of a computer. They (literally) don't build 'em like that any more.
And I 'll have know, I earned that CMH fair and square in F-19. (At least, I think I did... I think I don't remember, actually). =oP
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