Re: Apple II software poll

["G�rard Imbert" <gimbert@capgemini.fr>]

Here goes nothing :-)

[best A2 software titles]

>GAMES: ARCADE/ACTION


Karateka, GI Joe, Short Circuit, Lode Runner.

>GAMES: ADVENTURE/ROLE PLAYING


In my opinion, Adventure Construction Set by Stuart Smith is one of the best
games/creation utilities on the world, even with its limitations... I have
spent hours crafting worlds with this thing... good old times... :'-)

As for adventure, I would go to King's Quest I and II.

> GAMES: STRATEGY


Robot Rascals was great because it was a sort of board game where the board
was the computer.
You played with real cards over the table, with a set of friends, and all
the rules/events/turns where handled by the computer. It was really fun, and
I have never ever seen that sort of game again. What a pity :-(

> GAMES: EDUCATIONAL(most educational software was geared toward children
and
> was in the form of games.  There may be non-game educational software, but
> that can go here)


Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego,
and the Learning Company games (Robot Odissey, Rocky's Boots, Reader
Rabbit...)

> HOME/BUSINESS APPLICATIONS: WORD PROCESSORS


AppleWorks 5.1 for professionals,
the Newsroom for making newspapers in a fun way.

> HOME/BUSINESS APPLICATIONS:SPREADSHEETS

>AppleWorks 5.1

>> HOME/BUSINESS APPLICATIONS:DATA BASE


Same as above.

>> SYSTEM UTILITIES: OPERATING SYSTEMS


DOS 3.3 :-)

> SYSTEM UTILITIES: PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES


At the time, Pascal and Basic...

> SYSTEM UTILITIES: COMMUNICATION


Never used them... I haven't got a modem by then.
The closest thing I could say is...

"the floppy disk" :-)

> SYSTEM UTILITIES: SOFTWARE MANAGMENT


Locksmith. :-)

> SYSTEM UTILITIES: GRAPHICS MANIPULATION


Fantavision, to create animations in a fun way (I sense you are discovering
a pattern here: yes, when I used an Apple IIe I was a kid...;-) )

> OTHER


ApplePC, an easy to use emulator which runs almost anything I've tried on
it... :-)