Re: German game 'Oil' or 'Öl'

[Jerry <awanderin@yahoo.ca>]

Oliver Stadler <ostadler@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> While moving stuff from one computer to another it seems that I have lost a
> disk image with an old German game on it :-(  This game was played heavily
> in my old school, so it bears a lot of memories to me.
>
> The name of the game (if I remeber right) was 'OIL' or 'ÖL'. It is quite
> some time ago, but I think there was a subtitle like 'Das Spiel ums große
> Geld'. It was a filebased game, programmed in AppleSoft Basic. In this game
> you had to manage your oil company.
>
> Does anybody here remember that game and even maybe have this one on an
> image? I would really LOVE to play that one again!

No idea, really, but Asimov has this two-disk Applesoft game:

ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/simulation/oilbarons1.dsk.gz
ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/games/simulation/oilbarons2.dsk.gz


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