Sail the Endeavour
Game Meta:“Sail the Endeavour” is an educational maths game that mixes in some geography as well, as you sail the “Endeavour” using angles, map scales, etc. This has a fair bit of high resolution graphics and even some crude digitised speech at the start.
In “Sail Around Australia”, you must sail to each of a number of coastal Australian cities in the least number of moves. In each move you specify a bearing, speed and duration to sail.
“Sail the Endeavour” and “Sail around Australia” are different versions of the same program, with different country maps (“Sail the Endeavour” has a New Zealand map). The final version of the program allows the user to choose which country to sail around.
Version information:
THe title screen in game says “Around Australia with Steinlager I.” The disk was found amongst a number of floppies, with a former school Apple IIe Platinum, which was purchased near Wanganui, New Zealand. A disk image can be downloaded from http://www.vintage8bit.com/content/sail-around-australia-peter-blake-apple
Screenshots:
Title screen.
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Media Coverage:
Disk with Apple logo
Apple gives Rodger McNab a computer.
On computing at Katikati College
Royalty payments to students.
Student programmers at Katikati.
Software development at Katikati
Distribution of Katikati software
