[Coco] Play coco text adventures on nearly anything

[Joe Grubbs]

Wow thanks for sharing. I had no idea these games had been ported to Android. I remember playing Bedlam when I was a kid. I may actually still have the cassette!

Awesome work!



> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 07:17:03 -0400
> From: aawolfe at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] Play coco text adventures on nearly anything
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Last year I ported Bedlam, Raaka-tu, and Pyramid 2000 to Android.
> Google recently enabled running Android apps on Windows, Linux, and
> Macs via the Chrome web browser (in addition to Chromebooks which have
> had this capability for a while now).  today I repackaged the games
> for Chrome, and it seems to work fine.  I added standard keyboard
> support so they work better on non-touch based computers.
> 
> If you have a Chromebook, this link should let you play the games:
> 
> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coco-text-adventures/pbcoaaajbfckabdfiijconeaihfajibb
> 
> If you want to try them on Windows, Linux, or Mac, there are some
> extra steps (for now.. it's not clear whether in the future Google
> will make the link above work seamlessly like it does on Chromebooks).
> Here is an article on how to run Android apps via the Chrome browser:
> 
> http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/3/8339197/android-apps-on-windows-mac-linux-chrome-os
> 
> and here is the .apk for the CoCo text adventures:
> 
> http://cococoding.com/cocotextadventures.apk
> 
> If you want to run the original Android app on an Android device, you
> can still do that via the Play Store:
> 
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aaronwolfe.bedlam&hl=en
> 
> These games were fascinating to me as a kid.  It's wild to see them
> running on practically every modern computing platform that exists
> today :)
> 
> -Aaron
> 
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