Articles by Apple II Adventures

Well, this weekend didn’t provide the marathon let’s-try-to-finish-this-thing session I’d planned, but I made a bit of progress nonetheless, and was violently attacked by aliens for my efforts.

First, while traveling to another one of Vanessa’s mystery planets on the map, I received a radio transmission from a creature on

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I’ve been neglecting Star Saga’s tale (and this blog) for *months* now, I know, I know. Setting aside a big block of time yesterday to finally return to it, I gave myself an unnecessary shock. Forgetting how the Star Saga Kit I made worked, I started it up and was

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Well, trying to play two characters at once was a mistake. The game’s cumbersome enough with switching between the computer Game Master, the game board, and the many booklets – also switching between characters was too much. So I dropped Professor Lee Dambroke, the xenobiologist whose goal was to “bring

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Star Saga: One’s box proudly proclaims, “There’s not another game like it on earth.” For once, a hyperbolic-seeming catchphrase might be absolutely true. Published for the Apple II in 1988, the game combines a board game, a mammoth choose-your-own-adventure book and a computer referee to serve up a truly

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I realized I neglected to mention the game’s main quest/whole rationale in my first Magic Candle post. Here’s the gist of it. In the semi-distant past the Forces of Darkness’s favorite big badass, the archdemon Dreax, was poised to unleash some Sauron-like destruction on the world. Badass Dreax could

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Wow, way too long since I last posted! I haven’t been neglecting my Apple II in all the time that’s past, though – there’s a number of Apple II shenanigans I have to report here and in upcoming posts.

First, thanks to Henry Spragens for leaving a comment on the

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So I did finally record a new piece of Apple II music, ‘The Green Sheen’, using DX-1 samples triggered in real time via the Soundchaser keyboard. Take a listen:

The Green Sheen

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It appeared on the latest Mozomedia Music podcast ep, and I hope to stick to the

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