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agreenster

Jun 30, 2005, 02:31 PM

I can't believe this hasnt been posted before. I searched and didnt find anything.

You guys gotta check this OUT!

www.virtualapple.com

uses ActiveX to emulate AppleII, IIgs, etc ONLINE!

Play Oregon Trail or karateka in your browser. Krazy.

Preacher85

Jun 30, 2005, 03:50 PM

Swashbuckler and Spy's Demise! :eek: Reminds me of when I was a young child playing on my grandpa's Apple II. He still has that computer and it runs great, too. But he also has an old iMac that he uses more often.

Thanks for finding this. It is very cool.

DavidLeblond

Jun 30, 2005, 04:56 PM

Gahhh Oregon Trail!! I use to play that and put in all the people I disliked as members of my caravan so they'd all die of typhus!

But... requires ActiveX???

tangerineyum

Jun 30, 2005, 05:23 PM

jackieonasses

Jun 30, 2005, 05:30 PM

So it requires a Windows browser? or am i dumb?

mkrishnan

Jun 30, 2005, 05:57 PM

So it requires a Windows browser? or am i dumb?

No, I don't think you're dumb. It's ActiveX, so I don't know of any way to make it run on an Apple, short of VPC or another emulator / compatibility layer. :(

Funny that a site emulating an Apple doesn't bother to mention it isn't compatible with Macs! :eek: :rolleyes:

pdpfilms

Jun 30, 2005, 06:30 PM

Funny that a site emulating an Apple doesn't bother to mention it isn't compatible with Macs!

maybe this is why we hadn't heard of it before....

biohazard6969

Jun 30, 2005, 09:57 PM

i want to use it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CRAP!!!

xli_ne

Jul 1, 2005, 11:48 AM

No, I don't think you're dumb. It's ActiveX, so I don't know of any way to make it run on an Apple, short of VPC or another emulator / compatibility layer. :(

Funny that a site emulating an Apple doesn't bother to mention it isn't compatible with Macs! :eek: :rolleyes:

Thats really lame. Luckly for me I have a pc. Knew that thing would come in handy sometime

mkrishnan

Jul 1, 2005, 12:24 PM

Thats really lame. Luckly for me I have a pc. Knew that thing would come in handy sometime

Think about how great it will be when the Mactels can run MSIE7 at near full speed! Ahem, yeah, ummm, I gotta go. :o

I am actually kinda surprised they chose ActiveX and not Java for this....

EDIT: Of course, I should mention, in case anyone isn't aware of it, that there are non-online Apple IIgs emulators that run on OS X. You might need to go googling for a ROM file, though. And you *can* still download the disk images from virtualapple.com -- not that it's any less lame for this to have been done in ActiveX. :p

This is it: KEGS-OSX (http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20232) ... finding the ROM shouldn't be that hard.

qzak

Jul 1, 2005, 01:22 PM

very cool.. just got a quick game of Oregon Trail in here at work :D

billm

Feb 15, 2006, 03:14 AM

The URL for the Virtual Apple website is now www.virtualapple.org (http://www.virtualapple.org).

P.S. The Java emulators everyone is wanting are being worked on as we speak. But give it a little time.