Applewin emulator not loading game11/12/2023 What does this have to do with Microsoft, you ask? Well, I don’t know if you remember but Olympic Decathlon was a Microsoft product. I ran the ol’ AppleVision demo on the DOS 3.3 disk and had a thrill looking at something I hadn’t seen since the 6th grade. It’s in its 1.20 revision today and still working like a champ. So I looked into my stash of software on my PC (which I’ve kept for years on my hard drive in a single directory), and I dug up Tom Charlesworth’s “AppleWin”, the renown Apple II emulator for Windows. SirTech’s Wizardry, Electronic Art’s Archon, Accolade’s Hardball, and who could forget Broderbund’s Lode Runner? My favorite game however was, and remains, “Olympic Decathlon”, because of all the good memories my friends and I had playing it “multiplayer”. (Hey, they were expensive for a 10 year old) I punched a notch on the other side to use the flip side of the disk and stored everything I’d ever gotten on it. I’d carry my one 5 1/4” Verbatim DS/DD floppy disk. (I lived in Apple’s backyard so it’s not that surprising) Some had the II+ & later the IIe, but it was always the Apple. And of course the computer everyone had was the Apple II. So I’d go over to their houses and use theirs for hours. Other kids I knew had computers that their fathers owned & meanwhile, I didn’t even have a handheld Mattel Football game. When I was growing up, I didn’t have much money. The other day, I saw something at E3 (the Video Game History Museum) that made me think about what computing was like when I was kid.
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