![]() ![]() Early Macintosh Emulator Now Available at Internet ArchiveĪs with the Apple II machines, there are classic Mac games and apps available.Newer Technology miniStack Classic Storage Solution With Integrated Powered Hub Offers Maximum Capacity and Desktop Organization.An Apple II Watch While You Wait for Your Apple Watch.This week’s Installation Video – OWC Mercury Elite Pro Classic.Hot Read: Decades-Old Version of ‘Passcode’ Put Homework Before Gaming.The game linked to here doesn’t go any further than letting your team of settlers purchase supplies, but there are other versions available. You can find many other educational games, as well as productivity software for the Apple II machines. I didn’t play it, but it was popular in early school “computer labs”. It turns out that most of these games don’t have sound, which is a sad thing.Īnother favorite from the era was an educational game called Oregon Trail. ![]() It also didn’t have the soundtrack I wanted to hear, although the game allegedly had sound turned on. For example, while the game prompts the player to “press 1 – 4 to start”, it’s actually a click of the mouse that gets things going. Not everything works like it did in the original version. Zany Golf was an fun, yet frustrating Apple IIGS game No Sound… The earliest archive copy of the site is dated November 13, 1996. That’s a website about PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) that I started up in 1994. If you want to see a really ugly 1990s website, I invite you to look at. ![]() ![]() That’s a collection of old web pages reaching back to the early days of the Internet. You may know the Internet Archive from the Wayback Machine. All that’s a thing of the past with the Internet Archive. Once you got the emulator working, you needed to find a legal copy of the game to load. In the past, playing an off-platform game – say an Apple II classic – on a Mac required loading an emulator of some sort. Maybe you can pass along the “fun” of dying of dysentery on the Oregon Trail to a new generation! Today I’ll show you how to play classic games on your Mac. While they don’t compare in complexity or sharpness of graphics to today’s games, they hold a certain charm. In the 1980s, a lot of low-res classic games were published for the Apple II and other early computers. Some of our readers have been using Apple computers since the very early days of the company many are new to the Mac. ![]()
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