# Wanna Play an Apple II Game? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644 "2004-01-15T20:20:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/1 "2004-01-15T20:20:32Z")
C’mon, you know you’ve been wanting to harken back to the olden days and take on Oregon Trail as it was meant to be played: on a 1 Mhz machine with 64 kb of RAM… [Virtual Apple](http://www.virtualapple.com/) To play these games, you’ll have to use Internet Explorer (I know, I know: thus is the price of living in the past), and allow the site to install an ActiveX app to get the emulator up and going. It’s worth it, I tell you, to see either the ProDos or Apple IIgs screen pop up. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/2 "2004-01-15T20:50:17Z")
I first played Oregon Trail on a teletype machine tucked into a small back room of my Elementary school’s library. We could tell a bear attack was coming when the machine would start to type bold. So isn’t _that_ how it was meant to be played? But I will play it. I show a rainbow cable into my G4 cube for the nostalgia. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/3 "2004-01-15T20:51:37Z")
I’ll _shove_ a rainbow cable into… man, can I blame the new look on my typos? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/4 "2004-01-15T21:06:55Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > I first played Oregon Trail on a teletype machine tucked into a small back room of my Elementary school’s library. We could tell a bear attack was coming when the machine would start to type bold. So isn’t _that_ how it was meant to be played? > > But I will play it. I show a rainbow cable into my G4 cube for the nostalgia. 😃 A teletype machine, really? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/5 "2004-01-15T21:15:07Z")
There are few things I enjoy more than a rousing time of playing the Oregon Trail Drinking Game. Get five people together and use the names for the family members in the game. If your person breaks an arm, take a drink. If you get typhus, take two drinks. If you drown, finish the bottle. The rest of the rules write themselves, really… ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/6 "2004-01-15T21:30:48Z")
Try playing everything on the fastest speed possible. Makes me remmeber all of those games written for the 12 MHz 8086 processors, and played on the 25 MHz machines. It’s like being on crack and speed and LSD and 'shrooms and… where was I again? ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/7 "2004-01-15T21:58:57Z")
aww, I can’t get where in the world is carmen sandiego to work. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/8 "2004-01-15T22:15:31Z")
Ooh, I’m gonna go play Oregon Trail! I LOVED that game back in fifth grade! It was one of the perks of being in the gifted program, we got to play lots of it… ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/9 "2004-01-15T22:47:47Z")
Sigh. No workie in Mozilla. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/10 "2004-01-15T23:03:48Z")
Ah they have C’est La Vie. Awesome. Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Jpeg\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@Jpeg\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jpeg_Jones)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/11 "2004-01-15T23:06:57Z")
Heck, in my day, we played Oregon Trail on an etch-a-sketch operated by a trained seagull. The only way we knew a bear was coming was by the menacing glint in that old gull’s eye. The good one, I mean. Good times, good times. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/12 "2004-01-15T23:13:47Z")
All right, I made it alive. But I know I could do much better way back when. Heh. All this 80s nostalgia stuff would annoy me, if it wasn’t so damn much fun. ---
**Author:** ![verbenabeast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c4cdca/32.png) [@verbenabeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/verbenabeast)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2004, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/13 "2004-01-15T23:58:37Z")
AZTEC rules… I am SOO looking forward to getting off work!! I am gonna go home and get apple II’d OUT! ---
**Author:** ![cheddarsnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cheddarsnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cheddarsnax)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/14 "2004-01-16T00:25:37Z")
And how would I go about playing any of these games? I’m tryin’ to play Oregon Trail, but I just get a screen of alternating black and white spots. ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/15 "2004-01-16T00:36:22Z")
What was the name of the game with the little turtle triangle, and when given coordinates, would draw pictures? ---
**Author:** ![SylverOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SylverOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SylverOne)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/16 "2004-01-16T00:56:28Z")
Nevermind… Google is my friend. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/17 "2004-01-16T01:21:11Z")
Actually I can’t get any of them to work, one disk or another “fails to load” and I get the “Check startup device” message. Can’t see what I could be doing wrong here, anyone get it to work? ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/18 "2004-01-16T03:06:00Z")
> [@SylverOne](#): > > What was the name of the game with the little turtle triangle, and when given coordinates, would draw pictures? Well? What was the name? I wanna play that again too! ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/19 "2004-01-16T03:32:28Z")
The ‘game’ in question was a programming language called ‘Logo’, IIRC. I begged my folks to get it for me one year, and lo and behold, I got it. I think my brother still has the disks and manual… Somewhere… ---
**Author:** ![XJETGIRLX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc29f/32.png) [@XJETGIRLX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XJETGIRLX)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2004, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644/20 "2004-01-16T03:35:29Z")
I think I’ll stick with my _actual_ Apple II thankyouverymuch. I’ve still got Q\*Bert and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Choplifter, David’s Midnight Magic, Sammy Lightfood, Arcade Boot Camp, and a crapload of other games. Think I’ll go drag it out of the closet tonight 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-play-an-apple-ii-game/224644.md?page=2)