Re: Robot Odyssey

[pfg@cs.rmit.edu.au (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

Sergei Frolov <sergei@i.am> writes:

>Hello!

>Some years ago I play in very interesting game on Apple ][ - Robot
>Odyssey.
>Is anybody known about emulators it on PC/AT?

>Thank's

>Sergei Frolov

>2:5030/219.9, sergei@i.am, lautenaus@geocities.com.

Well, this will probably get me labelled as a vicious pirate by Nothin ;-),
but:

- First of all you need an Apple //e emulator. What you get depends on what
  system you run. I run Win95, and have used AppleWin, which seems fairly
  robust. There are others available. Some of them don't come with the Apple
  ROM images included due to copyright problems, so if you get one which
  doesn't, try downloading other packages to see if they do, or visit some
  of the Apple // websites. Only ask for the ROMS in the newsgroup as a last
  request, as certain people live for trolling in this newsgroup and consider
  such requests prime flame material (not naming any names ;-)).

- Next you need an image of Robot Oddyssey. Presumably you don't want to go
  to the trouble of trying to get a kit to download your old RO game disks 
  from the Apple, so you can take a shortcut. Go to Asimov 
  (ftp.apple.asimov.net) and take a look in their appleII game section.
  I can't remember what exact game category it's under (adventure perhaps),
  but you should be able to find it.

Hope it helps.


As a side note, does providing this information make me a scum sucking 
pirate who has destroyed the Apple // industry? It'd be a neat trick 
certainly, since I first got my Apple //e when the market was all but
dead and had to make do mainly with programs I inherited [I got mine
secondhand]. ;-)

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