Hi Jim, Just for reference. Most of the text adventures like Oregon Trail, Escape, and others were written in Apple Basic for the Apple iI-E. I'm pretty rusty at Apple Basic, but I do remember writing some text adventures for myself in the language when I was like 10 or so.
On 1/4/12, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote: > Hi Dark, > > Actually I have never played the Oregon Trail game. It was written for the > Apple 2e computer. Not sure what programming language that would have been. > But I never owned an Apple 2e computer. And I have no application that > will open the original source code. > > BTW I did not write the Trucker game. I found the GW Basic source code that > was written by Hughes Glantzberg. I converted it to Microsoft Extended > Quick Basic (PDS7) and added the sounds. Later I converted it to Windows > VB6 and sapi5. The same story with the golf game. But the rest of my games > I did write totally from scratch. Many of them started out in BasicA and GW > Basic, then went to PDS7 and now VB6, even though they still have some of my > original source code in them. > > Awesome Homer, Baseball, BattleShip, Black Jack, Bop It, Concentration, > coupling, Craps, Draw Poker, Football, Golf, Hangman, Homer on a Harley, > Life, Mach 1 tts, Master Mind, Monopoly, Pong, Puppy1, Reaction, Roulette, > Simon, Skunk, Slot Machine, Snakes and Ladders, Spanker, Star Mule, Triple J > Shooter, Trivia game engine, Trucker and Yahtzee > > Braille reference guide, Brain, Reader, Waver, Batting practice, Golf course > maker, monopoly board maker > > BFN > > Jim > > Kitchen's Inc, for games that are up to 110 percent funner to play. > > j...@kitchensinc.net > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
