Oregon Trail II Mac OS

I love that some people have too much time on their hands. Thanks to Slack developer Felix Rieseberg, you can now run Mac OS 8 on a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 without any messing about with separate emulators and OS installs. The whole thing runs on your Mac as a single, standalone Javascript app…

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Some hero has created an Mac OS 8 emulator that runs on current Apple machines. It's time to return to the 90s and enjoy some Duke Nukem and Civ 2. The Oregon Trail is a classic game in which you have to travel west in the 1800s via the Oregon Trail. There are many hazards, like river crossings, along the way and it is important to save your money so that you can buy more supplies while you are traveling. This game is quite nostalgic and will bring back many fond memories! The Oregon Trail is a video game published in 1990 on DOS by MECC. It's an educational and simulation game, set in a geography, history, managerial, real-time and western themes, and was also released on Mac, Windows 3.x and Apple II.

You can also run it on a Windows or Linux machine.

The virtual machine is emulating a 1991 Macintosh Quadra 900 with a Motorola CPU, which Apple used before switching to IBM's PowerPC architecture in the late 1990s.

Bear in mind that this is written entirely in JavaScript, so please adjust your expectations.

The underlying emulator is Basilisk II, a 68k Macintosh emulator by Christian Bauer et al, modified and compiled with Emscripten by James Friend.

Rieseberg says it should run most Mac OS 8-compatible apps, and even comes with some supplied ones.

You'll find various games and demos preinstalled, thanks to an old MacWorld Demo CD from 1997. Namely, Oregon Trail, Duke Nukem 3D, Civilization II, Alley 19 Bowling, Damage Incorporated, and Dungeons & Dragons.

There are also various apps and trials preinstalled, including Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, the Apple Web Page Construction Kit, and more.

But if you want to load others, you can do that.

Can I transfer files from and to the machine? Yes, you can. Click on the 'Help' button at the bottom of the running app to see instructions. You can transfer files directly, or mount disk images.

All you need do is copy files into the macintosh.js folder in your user directory and restart the app. Open the Unix volume on the desktop and you'll find them in there.

If you want to mount disk images, just place the .iso or .img volume into the same folder and re-open the app. Rieseberg does caution that there is a 'considerable' performance hit for each mounted volume, so one at a time might be advisable.

The same also works in reverse if you want to transfer files from the emulator to your Mac: Just open the Unix volume and the macintosh.js folder within it, copy files to that folder, and then quit the app. That will force a sync that copies them to the folder on your own Mac.

One thing you can't do, sadly, is connect to the web. Antibody (crazyrems) mac os.

The web was quite different 30 years ago — and you wouldn't be able to open even Google. However, Internet Explorer and Netscape are installed, as is the ‘Web Sharing Server,' if you want to play around a bit.

Of course, Javascript isn't exactly the most efficient environment, so I found the app was using around 100% of one CPU core, but it's certainly a fun trip down memory lane!

You can download the app from GitHub — just scroll down to the Downloads section.

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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 inspired by the real-life Oregon Trail and was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley by way of the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848.

Laugh uproariously as little Timmy slowly perishes of typhus! Partake in the massacre of defenceless buffaloes! Get caught by winter and freeze to death in the Rockies! Hoot with hilarity as you lose 238 pounds of meat, 18 bullets, a wagon wheel, and little Timmy in a failed river crossing! Trade with the local Indians for supplies and screw them over as hard as you possibly can! Run out of food and eat little Timmy! In short, this gave me hours of fun in my misspent youth and continues to do so. The only real problem is that the gameplay's a little slow, but that doesn't really detract from it that much. Also an excellent reminder of how hilariously miserable and fraught with abject suffering leading to early graves life was in Olden Times (tm). - maga_dogg

Oregon Trail Ii Mac Os Download

Of course, Javascript isn't exactly the most efficient environment, so I found the app was using around 100% of one CPU core, but it's certainly a fun trip down memory lane!

You can download the app from GitHub — just scroll down to the Downloads section.

Via the Verge

FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links.More.

Oregon Trail Ii Mac Os Download

Oregon Trail Ii Mac Os X

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 inspired by the real-life Oregon Trail and was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley by way of the Oregon Trail via a Conestoga wagon in 1848.

Laugh uproariously as little Timmy slowly perishes of typhus! Partake in the massacre of defenceless buffaloes! Get caught by winter and freeze to death in the Rockies! Hoot with hilarity as you lose 238 pounds of meat, 18 bullets, a wagon wheel, and little Timmy in a failed river crossing! Trade with the local Indians for supplies and screw them over as hard as you possibly can! Run out of food and eat little Timmy! In short, this gave me hours of fun in my misspent youth and continues to do so. The only real problem is that the gameplay's a little slow, but that doesn't really detract from it that much. Also an excellent reminder of how hilariously miserable and fraught with abject suffering leading to early graves life was in Olden Times (tm). - maga_dogg

Oregon Trail Ii Mac Os Download

..keep up a grueling pace with bare-bones rations and see how long little Timmy's broken leg takes to heal. I don't know whether the misfortunes in the game were intended to be hilarious, but yes, they are. It's worth playing the game once just for the completely deadpan descriptions of events. (Also, talk to people along the way and notice how historical information is slipped into their idle gossip making it sound somewhat contrived.) I have to disagree about the slowness of play not detracting, though. This is definitely a game to play while doing something else. - The Other Daniel

See also: The Oregon Trail CD, The Oregon Trail II

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