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Play 1978 Oregon Trail in the browser
- sparrish 4y agoThis is the first time I ever made it all the way to Oregon.
- alberth 4y agoDoes this work? Using macOS/Safari - all I see is a prompt with text saying "PRODOS BASIC 1.5 COPYRIGHT APPLE 1983-92" EDIT: Never mind, you need to click the "Run" button in bottom right for it to work.
- jmull 4y agoMy old basic skills asserted themselves… You can type “run” at the prompt. Looks like you need to type capital letters.
- Maursault 4y agoAs usual with browser emulation, iDevice fails to show the keyboard, nor can one copy and paste letters or words in the terminal. Apple's fault. Still cool.
- jasperry 4y agoI was always confused when I saw nostalgia screenshots of Oregon Trail, because they had fancier graphics than the version I remembered. Then I saw this version, which is even older than the one I played. So I searched and found this site with all the versions: https://www.pcgamer.com/every-version-of-the-oregon-trail-ranked/ https://www.pcgamer.com/every-version-of-the-oregon-trail-ra... It looks like I played the 1980 version, which at least had a primitive type of graphical hunting.
- Waterluvian 4y agoWow yeah. I somehow assumed my Apple II version was the original. There was a 1975 text based version?!
- leejoramo 4y agoOregon Trail goes back to 1971 as this first installment is 50 Years of Interactive Fiction explains https://if50.substack.com/p/1971-the-oregon-trail https://if50.substack.com/p/1971-the-oregon-trail
- chrismiceli 4y agoI attempted to emulate the 1975 version by interpreting the basic as JS. It probably has some issues in the conversion, but it should be more accessible: https://chrismiceli.github.io/TheOregonTrail/ https://chrismiceli.github.io/TheOregonTrail/ It essentially creates a state machine for each line of Basic, and uses a loop as the program counter. going into the appropriate state based on variables.
- pvg 4y agoOregon Thread yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32645822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32645822
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 4y agoWhenever I come across The Oregon Trail, I'm reminded of this awesome article: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/no-son-of-mine-plays-oregon-trail-like-that https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/no-son-of-mine-plays-ore... It unironically completely changed my perspective on the game.