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Beagle Menu
''Beagle Bag'' is a collection of video games for the Apple II family of computers published in 1982 by Beagle Bros Software. In common with their other titles, the ''Beagle Bag'' software was released in unlocked and unprotected form, and is now in the public domain. Games ''Beagle Bag'', collectively credited to " Bert Kersey and the Beagle Bros Staff", contains games designed for the Apple II, Apple II+ and Apple IIe computers. ''Buzzword!'' In ''Buzzword!'', a children's game based on Mad Libs, the computer relates a short story in which certain key words are replaced with blanks. Each time the story reaches a blank, the user selects a letter and the computer then randomly inserts a word from its vocabulary starting with that letter. ''Buzzword!'' comes with five pre-made stories and also allows users to create their own. In addition to entering a custom story, the ''Beagle Bag'' manual also includes instructions about how to edit ''Buzzword!s vocabulary. ''Elevators'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beagle Bros
Beagle Bros was an American software company that specialized in creating personal computing products. Their primary focus was on the Apple II family of computers. Although they ceased business in 1991, owner Mark Simonsen permitted the Beagle Bros name and logo to be included on the 30th anniversary reboot of I. O. Silver, released on December 12, 2014 by former Beagle programmer Randy Brandt. History Beagle Bros was founded in 1980 by Bert Kersey and expanded over the years to include a wide variety of staff members, programmers, and designers. Whereas most software companies focused on professional users and business systems, Kersey founded the company with the intention of capitalizing on the "hobbyist" market that had formed when affordable personal computers became more readily available. ''Apple Mechanic'' allowed users to create their own shape tables (an early form of sprites) to create their own games, ''DOS Boss'' let users patch the disk operating system, and ''Beagle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |