Oregon trail has been documented historically in other places, but it first came out in 1971 and you accessed it using a teletype.\u00a0 It went away for a few years and came back under MECC in 1974 and you still accessed by terminal.\u00a0 I was in school all during the 70’s on the east coast, so I never ran into it.\u00a0 MECC had it rewritten for the Apple II and released in 1985.<\/p>\n
I got my first Apple computer at the end of 1984, an Apple \/\/c.\u00a0 Over the years, I kept an interest in the Apple II world and still have my original Apple \/\/c.\u00a0 It doesn’t work and have replaced it with a slightly newer version\u00a0but, still hope to get it repaired.<\/p>\n
I never heard of Oregon Trail until maybe twenty years later.\u00a0 I’ve since then played the Apple II version using AppleWin and realized that it is exactly the kind of game I would have spent hours playing in school.\u00a0 Of course, had I played it in school, it would have been using a teletype or other terminal, since the Apple II didn’t come out until several years after I finished school.<\/p>\n
I was recently reading a history of the game and found a basic listing of one of the earlier versions was published in the May-June 1978 issue of Creative Computing.\u00a0 I tracked a copy of this issue to Archive.org and printed out the article.\u00a0 My plan is to enter this game into an emulated PDP 11\/70 running RSTS\/E and BASIC-PLUS giving it the feel to a certain extent of the original.\u00a0 You would have\u00a0to log on using a terminal in order to play the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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