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#.2MG APPLEWIN INSTALL#
#.2MG APPLEWIN DRIVERS#
#.2MG APPLEWIN MANUAL#
#.2MG APPLEWIN ARCHIVE#
#.2MG APPLEWIN SOFTWARE#

#.2MG APPLEWIN SOFTWARE#

Game uploaded to the A2 Software Library in Sep/Oct 1992.Last modification date on game files is as above, earliest is.You can not place more flags than mines.Superclick - chord by pressing the Apple key while clicking.

Press 'Tab' to switch cursor between Open or Flag mode.Game has option to make all 4 corners safe.You must flag all mines and open safe squares to win.The earliest file from v1.0 is 23 May 91 and the latest 22 Jan 92 which is when it seems to have been released, and the timestamp on the v1.0 game file is 10 Jul 92.Game was also distributed by Club Apple GS on 'Disk of the Month' 91.Use ShrinkIt to unarchive SKH file, the 2MG file can be loaded as a virtual disk.Shareware $15 now abandonware as per company website.Written for the Apple IIGS, but ported to DOS and Win 3.0 in 1993.In each level are hidden gems (automatically win level), hourglasses (get more time) or other treasures.First level has 5 hidden mines and squares touching mines glow (instead of numbers), you use a spell to mark the mines as found.You can drag mouse instead of clicking on all squares to save time

#.2MG APPLEWIN MANUAL#

Manual mode you need to open every square, so get more points than Auto mode which clears openings.Highscore list keeps best score per player.

Multiplayer mode allows up to 6 players, can set time limits per turn from 0 to 360s.

Single Player mode limited to 6 minutes per level.

Donner then joined Microsoft and wrote Minesweeper.

TRIVIA: In a post to 2 on, Gary Gouriluk wrote "I also wrote a version of this game for 8 bit Apple II (about ten years ago)." This is interesting because the first two programs written by Robert Donner were Risk and Cluedo, co-written with Gary and sold by their company Casablanca Software Inc from 1988-89.

Game copies 'Smiley Face' from Windows version, for example wearing sunglasses when you win.

Due to progamming the first level is zero.

Press 'Enter' to open, 'Space' to flag and 'Esc' to chord.

Each board size can also have a custom number of mines.

Disk timestamp for game is but game was released in 1990.

Shareware for $10 now abandonware but as a result you can not change number of bombs or grid.

#.2MG APPLEWIN INSTALL#

Use the install program to put into the Desk Accessory folder and reboot the computer, the game will appear on the Apple menu.

Mines GS was distributed by Club Apple on 'Disk of the Month' 62.

NDA is 'New Disk Accessory" which means game could be opened from the Apple menu.

the original game concept and the BOOM source resource I owe to Daniel"

"This desk accessory is based on a Mac version by Daniel Griscom.

Goal is to cross the minefield from top left to bottom right corner.

This turned the game into encrypted text, but we have decoded all games to make them slightly more user friendly! Simple.Īpple games were commonly shared online in Usenet chat groups like 2 by encoding the archived files. For an NDA game you need to place the file in the Desk Accessories folder and reboot.

#.2MG APPLEWIN ARCHIVE#

CiderPress allows you to read files in an archive in Windows, but to open documents in KEGS you will need to install Appleworks by copying files as described.

#.2MG APPLEWIN DRIVERS#

To install a game from a disk copy the contents of its icons, drivers and tools folders into the same folders in the emulator. You can then load this disk into KEGS, open the Basic.system program and type '-Shrinkit.exe' to install. Install CiderPress, use it to create a new disk, add the ShrinkIt file and change its attribute to text from the menu. Locate a copy of the self-extracting ShrinkIt.exe and a copy of CiderPress. You will need the ShrinkIt program to open the archived games. The Apple IIGS introduced a new operating system called GS/OS, and for this you can download the KEGS emulator and follow the instructions to install GS/OS. You can use the AppleWin emulator to play these by dragging a. Gouriluk was the other half of Casablanca Inc, with the other programmer being Robert Donner who did write the Windows version (1990).Īpple II computers mostly used an operating system called ProDOS. DOM which can be loaded in an emulator.Īpple II minesweeper games are not important historically except for two: Mines GS (1990) was a port of the Mac game called Mines (1988) that directly inspired the Windows version of minesweeper, and Mine Sweep (1991) which is a port by Gary Gouriluk of the Windows version. BXY (ShrinkIt archives) or virtual disks suchs as. Most of the games are for the Apple IIGS (1986-1992) but their limited number is due to Minesweeper being far more popular on the Macintosh. This is a collection of minesweeper games for the Apple II series of computers, which were sold by Apple between 19.