old apple II game

brbr
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Does anyone remember the game (which I could have sworn was called) Discover the World for the Apple II? You started off as an explorer for Portugal, Spain, France, England, and maybe one of a few other countries. You determined what supplies to take with you and went out sailing and exploring the world. It had, for the time, decent graphics. You started out with a map of the known coast of Europe and as more coastlines were discovered they were added to your map. One of the most common things to do was to "map coast" around Africa or South America giving you the whole layout on your map as well as simply navigating you around those continents. Eventually if you brought back enough riches and established enough ports elsewhere you were promoted and could start assaulting the ports of other countries.



Does ANYONE remember what the hell this was called and where I can find it?

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  • Reply 1 of 11
    regreg Posts: 832member
    Vertual Apple has a good list of Apple II games. I don't recall the game you are looking for. The two I spent way to much time on were Wiradry ( the whole series ) and Three Mile Island. Virtual Apple has an emulator so you can play it right from their site.



    reg
  • Reply 2 of 11
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Virtual Apple has tons of classics, but...



    "requires Internet Explorer and Windows"



    "uses ActiveX"



  • Reply 3 of 11
    not unlike myselfnot unlike myself Posts: 2,037member
    Danni Berry's "Seven Cities of Gold"



    http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=958
  • Reply 4 of 11
    brbr Posts: 8,395member
    I wish that was it but unfortunately no. Seems like that game only lets you play starting out in Spain and is too focused on the New World. Thanks for trying NUM though.
  • Reply 5 of 11
    not unlike myselfnot unlike myself Posts: 2,037member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BR

    I wish that was it but unfortunately no. Seems like that game only lets you play starting out in Spain and is too focused on the New World. Thanks for trying NUM though.



    Knights of Legend

    http://www.mobygames.com/game/apple2/knights-of-legend
  • Reply 6 of 11
    not unlike myselfnot unlike myself Posts: 2,037member
    OR



    "New World" (also for the IIe)



    "A hi res adventure for 1-3 players. A player

    represents the monarch of either Spain, France, or England.

    The new world is divided into 13 colonies. Your job is to

    purchase colonies, soldiers, ships and conduct naval

    maneuvers and launch expeditions to one of the 13 colonies.

    Once there you search for gold. All commands are entered

    from a menu, making it highly appropriate for youngsters."
  • Reply 7 of 11
    vietpdxvietpdx Posts: 1member
    I found discover the world II on the Free Info Society. A quick google search brings it up. Its clearly for windows.



    The company that makes it is called "Entrex Software" which has since gone out of business after being bought out by scholastic and etc. etc.



    Hopefully that will help you find the original Apple IIe version. The windows version is fun, but i fondly remember the apple IIe version myself
  • Reply 8 of 11
    argonautargonaut Posts: 128member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by curiousuburb View Post


    Virtual Apple has tons of classics, but...



    "requires Internet Explorer and Windows"



    "uses ActiveX"







    Try this one for Mac (Intel only though).....



    http://www.virtualapple.org/
  • Reply 9 of 11
    epistaxisepistaxis Posts: 2member
    i played the game your talking about, as a kid i played it for hours and hours, i believe the name was in fact "discover the world" but have not been able to find it anywhere, my mother trashed my old gs and all my software when i was in college :( i recently bought a new iigs and am in the process of collecting the rest of the "gear" please message Me back if you find the disk image.
  • Reply 10 of 11
    fonbr01fonbr01 Posts: 1member

    Keeping this posting alive.. I do recall the game you're referring to. It was called, "Discover the World" and I remember playing it on the Apple IIe in elementary school. I remember some details of the game, like navigating the map, deciding what to do when you sailed into a storm, stopping to trade with other countries, etc. Every now and then I search for it to see if anyone has posted a disk image somewhere. Someone has it!

  • Reply 11 of 11
    epistaxisepistaxis Posts: 2member

     

    So, old dead thread, BUT I FOUND IT!!!!....   :D
    well Archive.org found it, and i found it on there!  played happily for several hours.  (note on the first one says b side doesn't work so i used the b side in the second link and seemed to work well on sweet16 iigs emulator. rom3 don't know if it makes a difference though)
    Cheers and avoid those nasty pirates 



    https://archive.org/details/Discover_The_World_1987-Entrex_Software
    https://archive.org/details/Discover_The_World_1987-Entrex_Software_side_B
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