The Oregon Trail for PC DOS

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The Oregon Trail v2.1

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The Oregon Trail

Online version of The Oregon Trail for PC DOS. The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 on an HP 2100 minicomputer. The original game was designed to teach school children about the realities of 19th century pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. The player assumes the role of a wagon leader guiding his or her party of settlers from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon's Willamette Valley on the Oregon Trail via a covered wagon in 1848. The game has been released in many editions by various developers and publishers who have acquired rights to it, as well as inspiring a number of spinoffs and parodies...

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DOS v2.1, Main menu

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DOS v2.1, Wagon Leader

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DOS v2.1, Matt's General Store

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DOS v2.1, Independence

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DOS v2.1, Inventory

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DOS v2.1, Map of the Oregon Trail

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DOS v2.1, Traveling

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DOS v2.1, Cansas River

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DOS v2.1, Hunting instructions

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DOS v2.1, Hunting minigame

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DOS v2.1, Fort Kearney

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DOS v2.1, Fort Laramie

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DOS v2.1, Independence Rock

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DOS v2.1, Big Louie

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DOS v2.1, Fort Bridger

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Released in

1971

Publisher

Brøderbund Software, Inc.

Developer

MECC

Platforms

Mainframe (1971), Apple II (1978), Atari 8-bit (1982), DOS, Macintosh (1991), Windows, Windows 3.x

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IBM PC with MS-DOS

Online emulated version of The Oregon Trail was originally developed for the IBM PC and compatible computers, with MS DOS - Microsoft Disk Operating System. It is an OS for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft and released in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0.
MS-DOS was targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software and user data as well. Progressive version releases delivered support for other mass storage media in ever greater sizes and formats, along with added feature support for newer processors and rapidly evolving computer architectures. Ultimately, it was the key product in Microsoft's development from a programming language company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.