{"id":5675,"date":"2015-01-09T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5675"},"modified":"2015-01-09T11:59:37","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:59:37","slug":"oregon-trail-now-available-as-online-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/oregon-trail-now-available-as-online-game\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oregon Trail&#8221; now available as online game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, it&#8217;s the MS-DOS version, not the Apple IIGS, but the emulator appears to work on a Mac so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/01\/05\/you-can-now-play-nearly-2400-ms-dos-video-games-in-your-browser\/\">The real Oregon Trail from MECC is back!<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Washington Post<\/em>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990\">link to game page<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/msdos_Where_in_the_World_is_Carmen_Sandiego_Deluxe_1990\">And so is Carmen Sandiego!<\/a> (But neither work with sound and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/about\/faqs.php#1034\">despite the FAQ<\/a> I can&#8217;t find an &#8220;unmute&#8221; button.) I played Carmen on an MS-DOS machine, so that&#8217;s very familiar, although the mouse synchronization between computer and emulator is troublesome (works better in fullscreen).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technically, it&#8217;s the MS-DOS version, not the Apple IIGS, but the emulator appears to work on a Mac so&#8230; The real Oregon Trail from MECC is back!\u00a0(Washington Post) (link to game page) And so is Carmen Sandiego! (But neither work &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/01\/oregon-trail-now-available-as-online-game\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5677,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions\/5677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}