Re: Poll: Best Commercial Game on 1 Disk for Apple ][

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <uqbk2tos5j5husanm4b7h0s9jujbf63elp@news.newsguy.com>,
Paul Guertin  <pg@sff.net> wrote:
 
> "Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote:
> 
>>> 3. Olympic Decathlon - great animation with some realistic and
>>> challenging events.
>> 
>> Actually I liked that game too... even if half the events required a
>> joystick which I didn't have.
> 
> On the IIe or IIc, one could use the apple keys instead of the
> joystick buttons, which made all the events playable except for
> shot put (#3, I think). It was still possible to play a nonathlon
> on a joystick-less IIe by ctrl-resetting out of shot put, which
> would advance you to the next event.
 
On the II+, two game paddles always came with the computer (sorta
gives an indication on what target customers Apple aimed at back
then...).  Olympic Decathlon played fine with those paddles.
 
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