Oregon Trail for Atari 8-bit?
Bill Kendrick
ever released for the Atari 8-bit? I've found some public domain 'sports'
(shooting) game with the same title, but it doesn't bear any resemblance to
the game I played on those ugly old Apple IIs.
Thanks to Kevin Savetz (who posted that he has cholera over on Facebook ;) )
for reminding me of the game. (Though I also did recently see an article
about the _early_ history of the game... did you know that I did not know
that it was originally a board game? :) Is THAT what kids had to do before
there were Apple IIs infesting their schools? I'm not sure what's worse?
Hey, who threw that tomato? What's those hook for--)
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Ronald J. Hall
> Was Oregon Trail (famous in elementary school Apple II labs in the 1980s)
> ever released for the Atari 8-bit? I've found some public domain 'sports'
> (shooting) game with the same title, but it doesn't bear any resemblance to
> the game I played on those ugly old Apple IIs.
>
> Thanks to Kevin Savetz (who posted that he has cholera over on Facebook ;) )
> for reminding me of the game. (Though I also did recently see an article
> about the _early_ history of the game... did you know that I did not know
> that it was originally a board game? :) Is THAT what kids had to do before
> there were Apple IIs infesting their schools? I'm not sure what's worse?
> Hey, who threw that tomato? What's those hook for--)
I swear I can sort of remember this as a type in game in some magazine. It
was a text only game, right?
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Bill Kendrick
> I swear I can sort of remember this as a type in game in some magazine. It
> was a text only game, right?
Nah, Oregon Trail, while it did have a lot of text info & screens,
also included a lot of little graphics of wagons, bears,
streams, trees, etc.
Random screenshot via Google:
http://www.elephantjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/oregon-trail.jpg
And a random video ("Oregon Trail in 60 seconds") from YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GH0-hr1u_k
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Bill Garber
"Bill Kendrick" <bi...@newbreedsoftware.com> wrote in message news:4d4d8d2b$0$10582$742e...@news.sonic.net...
> Was Oregon Trail (famous in elementary school Apple II labs in the 1980s)
> ever released for the Atari 8-bit? I've found some public domain 'sports'
> (shooting) game with the same title, but it doesn't bear any resemblance to
> the game I played on those ugly old Apple IIs.
>
> Thanks to Kevin Savetz (who posted that he has cholera over on Facebook ;) )
> for reminding me of the game. (Though I also did recently see an article
> about the _early_ history of the game... did you know that I did not know
> that it was originally a board game? :) Is THAT what kids had to do before
> there were Apple IIs infesting their schools? I'm not sure what's worse?
> Hey, who threw that tomato? What's those hook for--)
>
> Sent from my computer
This is in BASIC, and I have not tried it, but I did download it.
Give it a try and let me know if it is what you were looking for.
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-oregon-trail-_3819.html
Bill G.
Bill Kendrick
> This is in BASIC, and I have not tried it, but I did download it.
> Give it a try and let me know if it is what you were looking for.
>
> http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-oregon-trail-_3819.html
Nope, that's not it. Looks like it was never ported to the Atari 8-bit,
which seems a shame! :^(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(video_game)
"The Oregon Trail is an educational computer game developed by Don
Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced
by MECC in 1974. The game was designed to teach school children about
the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. ..."
"The Oregon Trail was created in 1971 by three student teachers at
Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota,[1] using a mainframe
computer. ..."
"In 1978 MECC began encouraging its schools to adopt the Apple II
microcomputer. The first Apple II version of The Oregon Trail was
an Integer BASIC type-in adaptation in Creative Computing's May-June
1978 issue. The program was adapted by John Cook and provided on
A.P.P.L.E.'s PDS Disk series #108. A further version called Oregon
Trail 2 was adapted in June, 1978 by J.P. O'Malley. The game was
further released as part of MECC's Elementary series, on Elementary
Volume 6 in 1980. The game was titled simply Oregon, and featured
minimal graphics. It proved so popular that it was re-released as a
standalone game, with substantially improved graphics, in 1985."
Edition-wise, it lists:
1981 to 1985 The Oregon Trail (Apple II).
1992 The Oregon Trail Deluxe (MS-DOS).
1993-96 The Oregon Trail Ver 1.2 (Windows).
...etc.
The Oregon Trail for Facebook
So it looks like I played the improved-graphics version made
for the Apple II in 1985. (At which point it would've been
brand-new, since I was in 4th & 5th grade that year.)
Time for someone to do an Atari 8-bit conversion! ;)
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Michael Current
<bi...@newbreedsoftware.com> wrote:
> "The Oregon Trail was created in 1971 by three student teachers at
> Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota,[1] using a mainframe
> computer. ..."
My alma mater, cool! I had no idea.
Two more links to recent stories about the game, as captured by folks at
Carleton:
http://apps.carleton.edu/news/carleton_in_the_media/?story_id=705282
http://apps.carleton.edu/news/carleton_in_the_media/?story_id=702132
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Doctor Clu
> 1981 to 1985 The Oregon Trail (Apple II).
> 1992 The Oregon Trail Deluxe (MS-DOS).
> 1993-96 The Oregon Trail Ver 1.2 (Windows).
> The Oregon Trail for Facebook
>
>
> So it looks like I played the improved-graphics version made
> for the Apple II in 1985. (At which point it would've been
> brand-new, since I was in 4th & 5th grade that year.)
>
>
> Time for someone to do an Atari 8-bit conversion! ;)
Hmmm... I agree, but while a person could convert the graphics and text
with little problem, I would want the mechanics of the game somehow.
Anyone disassemble this game yet? I have heard a lot about it though
never played it.
. . Doctor Clu (of...)
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