Oregon Trail 1975 & 1978

REM  MINNESOTA EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING CONSORTIUM STAFF
REM  PROGRAMMING REVISIONS BY DON RAWITSCH - 1975
REM  CURRENT VERSION - 3/27/75

Very lightly modified to work with modern platform-independent ANSI BASIC interpreter such as bwbasic

Run

apt install bwbasic

or other favorite BASIC interpreter.

• 1975: bwbasic oregon-trail-1975.bas
• 1978: bwbasic oregon-trail-1978.bas

Provenance

1978 version

From Creative Computing 1978 page 132ff.

REM The program that follows is a reconstruction
REM of the Oregon Trail game written for HP time-shared
REM BASIC by Don Rawitsch and Bill Heinemann and Paul Dillenberger
REM in 1971. Its source is an updated version published in the
REM July-August 1978 issue of Creative Computing.


10 REM PROGRAM NAME - 0REGON        VERSION:01/01/78
20 REM ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING BY BILL HEINEMANN - 1971
30 REM SUPPORT RESEARCH AND MATERIALS BY DON RAVITSCH
40 REM MINNESOTA EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING CONSORTIUM STAFF
50 REM CDC CYBER 70/73-26 BASIC 3-1

• OCR'd by @clintmoyer,
• tweaked by @scivision for ANSI BASIC compliance,

Further corrected by contributors:

• @pau101
• @philjonas
• @interkosmos

1975 version

https://www.filfre.net/misc/oregon1975.bas

Notes

The BASIC dialect used is old 1970s unstructured style, which needed tweaks to run in a contemporary BASIC interpreter. To preserve in a modern reinterpretation of classic style, consider Fortran with a module dedicated to registers for game state.