Play Oregon Trail The Way You Remember It
I am a sucker for nostalgic computer games. Oregon Trail was the first computer game I ever played on the Apple IIe system. With the help of the Enhanced Apple IIe Emulator and some virtual floppy discs we can relive those golden memories on your current PC. I am playing this on my Windows XP box. I am not sure if it works with Vista.
The first thing you need to do is download AppleWin 1.14.0 This is a zip file so just go ahead and extract it where you like. I just put it on my desktop. Open the folder and double click on the AppleWin.exe icon to launch the emulator. To start the virtual machine click on the Apple button on the upper right side.
Now the next thing we need to play Oregon Trail is the virtual floppy disks. You can find them along with tons of other great classic ROMS @ jeff.greenfeld.net
Once you have these downloaded and extracted click on the Master Disk Drive on the left side. Drag the Oregon Trail Floppy there and double click to load it.
Now Reboot the virtual machine by hitting the Apple button again. Time to get on the trail!
The following is just some of the screen shots from Oregon Trail. Here I am setting up the players.
Exploring the rivers along the way.
Buying supplies from the store. Who didn't pick the banker?
This is a very stable emulator. There are also hundreds of virtual applications out there that you can find and load to relive your legacy computing memories.
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Thanks for this - I just posted an article on the effects classic games like The Oregon Trail have had on the development of educational software . Letting my readers know how they can play it on a Mac is helpful.
I couldnt not get it to open or work
i cannot get it to open and work
I LOVE THIS GAME! In mid-game it asked me to insert floppy disk 2… what do you do at this point so you don't lose the first half of the game? Thanks for your help!
Yeah, how do you flip to disk 2?
OH my GOD! this was my favorite game! it loaded fine but havent got to the 2nd disk as everyone is saying. thanks@!
this is how you flip to the 2nd disk - click on the master drive 2 the one under 1 and then go to your virtual floppies and double click on the 2nd disk . it will then go in drive two. after that click on the drive that has a 1/2 on it and then press space bar. there you go
can you please let me know where i could download the oregon trail to my computer from internet or email to me
how do i get disk 2 on or to flip.
i love to play oregon trail! now let me play gosh
to get to disk 2 you click the button showing both boxes, so the one with the box number 1 that says 1 under it, changes to saying 2 underneath it. then you click that box. then press space bar
this game is awsome. it took me alot of searching for one that was free. sooo thanks!!! haaaaay
@ mandy:
Yep I totally agree! This is a definite classic to me! I remember playing this game on an Apple IIe in elementary school.
Hi,
So I did all the things this page said to get oregon trail and played for a while then when i closed it and tried to reopen it i have to do all this stuff over again. im not the best w computers so im not sure how the apple emulator was sposed to save the trail or what?? so if this doesnt make any sence im kinda confused my self. I enjoyed playing the game and was hopeing it would save where i left off
Now I need to play Carmen Sandiego!
Has anyone else been able to play this more than once on Vista? The second time I tried to launch the emulator nothing happened (it came up in the taskbar but no window ever opened).
I was so excited about the game I logged off, then logged on as my husband and downloaded everything again so I could play. But now when I try to run it in his profile it doesn't work. Anyone know anything about this?
"Now I need to play with my nuts
Has anyone else been able to play this more than once on Vista? The second time I tried to launch the emulator nothing happened (it came up in the taskbar but no window ever opened).
I was so spazzed about the game I logged off, then logged on as my husband and downloaded everything again so I could play. But now when I try to run it in his profile it doesn't work."
vista sucks get, xp foo!!!
ps, get back in the kitchen beezy!!
yeeeeeaaaaaaaaaghh!!!!!!
How do you save on this game?
P.S. Oregon Trails rocks!
NO, really some body please tell me step by step on how to "flip" it to the side 2
I LOVE this game I played it on third grade at lincoln elem
I once played the Oregon Trail on my Eee PC in the car during a road trip and at the point in the game where we crossed the Kansas River, we were actually crossing the Kansas River in real life. How's that for an interesting coincidence?
@NEWK:
That is a very cool Oregon Trail story! Nice work.
hey i love this oregon trail but i cant figure out how to go on it asks for disk 2 but how do u change from 1 to 2
please let me know
marisa
@ zombie
press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and it should bring up your task manager window. in the processes tab, identify which process belongs to the emulator and stop that process. try re-opening the emulator. i find that when i try to open a program when it isnt running and the process is, the program will not load. hope this works for you. i played this once as a kid and it was alright for me. it never caught my attention, but i am glad to see that it did for other people.