If you are a child of the ’80s, chances are you spent some face time with an Apple II. These computers were mainstays of school computer classes in the mid ’80s, classes that usually included some light programming:
10 PRINT “HELLO!”
20 GOTO 10
…and, if you were lucky, perhaps an educational game like Lemonade Stand or The Oregon Trail. These state-of-the-art machines could display 16 different colors with their 64 kilobytes of memory, and ran at speeds just over 1 Megahertz. (By contrast, Apple recently released a device that includes two thousand times the memory, displays about a million times as many colors, and runs over six hundred times as fast. And it’s a phone.)
Now, Macworld reports that thanks to near-incomprehensible advances in technology, you can play an assortment of games for old Apple machines in your web browser with the Virtual Apple emulator. They even have Lemonade Stand and The Oregon Trail.
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