Yeah, I know, some of you are going to answer, “Donate it to the dumpster,” but I’m a sentimental old fool when it comes to ancient computers, especially Apples, and especially if they appear to still be working.
It, along with a green-screen monitor and two floppy drives, has been gathering dust at work for the past decade-plus, but this week we’ve been rearranging office spaces and throwing out lots of unnecessary stuff. I’m tempted to take home, but I know I’ll never make the time to figure out how to use it, and I know that if I’m not careful I’ll one day wind up as That Crazy Old Computer Guy, with Commodores and Timex-Sinclairs piled up in every corner of my shrinking apartment.
Anyone know where I can find an enthusiast who would give it a good home?
Also, there was that game…like, Appleman was the name or something…it had this Donkey Kong style layout where you were this guy trying to climb to the top of the screen, but you were being chased by telephones, so you had to chop holes in the floors so the telephones would fall in and you could walk right over top of them…
Oregon Trail is da bomb. Da bomb, I say. Many happy memories have I of hours wasted in elementary school hunting the mighty buffalo and rafting the river. Play it often, and play it well. May the Force guide you on your journey, and may bandits steal only your food (after all, who doesn’t buy 99 boxes of bullets from the get-go and just hunt to full capacity? Seriously).
There are numerous collectors all over the world who would give it a good home. Google computer museums, or eBay it and let them find you.
Mr Cazzle is one of the numerous collectors in the world… he’s probably not interested in importing a US Apple ][e, what with the voltage differences and all (assuming you’re in the US), but I know he’s not the only one out there. His website is www.thepcmuseum.com if you’re interested.
Jenaroph, that sounds a lot more like Lode Runner than Jumpman, specifically the “dig holes in the ground, let bad guys fall in, run on top of them” aspect. Lode Runner had you run around a screen collecting treasures, and you could zap a hole in the ground which would gradually close up. Jumpman had you run around a screen collecting orange balls, and you could, get this, jump. The enemies in that were little white dots that meandered along until they were in the same vertical or horizontal line as you, at which point they’d shoot towards you.
Either way, drewbert, you should play them both. And Oregon Trail, and Fraction Munchers, and Snooper Troops, and The Search For The Most Amazing Thing, and Agent USA, and various incarnations of Carmen Sandiego, and …
There’s also an entire section of ebay devoted to classic computers if you want to sell it. A lot of people use them for robots because their IO ports aren’t hidden behind mountains of operating system code.
Terrible, awful Doper. Of course, its my fault for downloading the emulator and OT. Never mind that I really need to be unpacking boxes or something…no…, I’ve been playing Oregon Trail.
Y’know, if you’re looking for a decent little project, you could always take the components out of the monitor and make yourself a nice little fishbowl.
Plenty of sites out there with instructions on how to do this. I too lazy to Google, but you not be. Presumably.
That describes only a few of the levels in Jumpman. In some the enemies were bombs or hailstones which fell from the top of the screen. In others they were robots, flying saucers or dragons. I believe that a PC version of Jumpman has found a Home in the files Of a site which is dedicated to The Underdogs.
Doh again, that’s right. Bombs Away was the third level, Invasion was level 6 (and you shot instead of jumped), and Dragonslayer was about level 13. Level 26ish was Gunslinger, which featured duplicates of you which you could shoot much like the Invasion level.
Still, though, the goal of each level was to get the orange ball(s) as fast as possible.
