Re: looking for old game--alice in wonderland-- correction

[zen77NOSPAM@teleport.com (Kevin Anderson)]

On Wed, 26 May 1999 15:45:27 -0500, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>Labelas Enoreth writes ...
>> 
>> > > Cturley2 writes ...
>> > > >
>> > > > Hey, I'd love to see a rewrite of 'Alice in Wonderland' as an
>> > > > Apple IIgs specific game with SHR
>> > > > graphics (256 colors of course), stereo sound effects - maybe even
>> > > > animation.
>> Alice in wonderland, that was one of the games in that Windham classics
>> series, like Below the Root and Swiss Family Robinson? Alice and Below
>> were both side scrolling adventure games with limited interactivity, right
>> (there was a menu of like, 8 actions, I think? and you just run and jump
>> with the joystick?)
>
>     Yes; as far as I know, this is the only Alice' available for Apple II.
>
>
>> I never played Alice but I liked Below the root on my PC but never had an
>> Apple or commodore at the time to try the others...of course, looking back
>> at it now, the flat, primitive graphics look kind of silly, but still.
>> 
>> I can't seem to get the copy of Alice I found on the net to work,
>> apparently it's a hacked version (was the original protected?) and so all
>> I get is a screen full of garbage, then a game screen, but nothing is
>> controllable.
>
>     Problems like the ones you describe with the version in Asimov's regular
>collection were mentioned several months ago. As Jake noted earlier, a version
>which should work fine is on Asimov, too at ...
>
>ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/incoming/AliceWNDLD.zip .

The best versions (IMHO) of Alice in wonderland & below the root were
for the C64, and are available on the net with an emulator like ccs64.
Oh course, "be sure you own(ed) the original game first" :)

Question: What other games did windham classics come out with? And
what other platforms? Any for the apple2gs? And why did the company
die out?? (I would have thought that alice and BTR would have been
QUITE successful). :)