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The player's alter ego begins the game as an infant the game presents the user with a tree diagram with nodes, each labeled with an icon. Alter Ego was available in both male and female versions, each using a different set of experiences. The game allows the user to make decisions for an imaginary person (being therefore the player's alter ego) and shows what possible consequences these decisions could have on that person. Favaro, Ph.D., for the Commodore 64, DOS, Apple II, and the Apple Macintosh. Be patient :-)Īlter Ego is a role-playing video game released by Activision in 1986.

Unfortunately, this game is cur­rent­ly available only in this ver­si­on. If you pre­fer to use a ja­va ap­plet e­mu­la­tor, fol­low this link. This ga­me is e­mu­la­ted by ja­va­script e­mu­la­tor em-dos­box. For full­screen press 'Right Alt' + 'En­ter'. These saves are read from the OLDGAMES file, which I deleted and was able to save my game just fine after that.Game is con­trol­led by the same keys that are used to playing un­der MS DOS. Turns out it's CTRL+S), there are already some saves in there, I was unable to write my save to any of these entries. Secondly, when trying to save the game (I had to work out how to do this by essentially bashing at the keyboard to try and work out how to do it. To do this, when in the Alter Ego directory (in your Linux terminal, not the DOSBOX ons), issue the command chmod 666 * After looking at the permissions of all the files in the directory they're all read-only so I set everything to read/write to avoid any possilble complains with other files later on. I did actually come up against a couple of problems, which I'm not sure if these are unique to running DOSBOX on Linux.įirstly, DOSBOX was complaining in the background about being unable to write to 'SIDEICON.GPH'. Enjoying this game so far, it's very well written and I've already been told off by the narrative as others mentioned below.