Lemonade Stand

Run a lemonade stand in Lemonsville. Each morning brings the weather report; then, for each stand, decide how many glasses of lemonade to make, how many advertising signs to buy and what price to charge, and see the day's report. Hot days sell more and cloudy ones less, a thunderstorm ruins everything, and the street department may close your street for the day. From one to thirty stands can play, taking turns.

The ColecoVision version keeps the program's own arithmetic: it runs Applesoft's floating-point routines translated to the Z80, so every sale, every cent and every random number comes out as on the Apple, rounding and all. The weather follows Applesoft's random numbers from the same starting seed, so the same answers bring the same weather. The listing's quirks are kept too: the street crews never buy lemonade, bankrupt stands keep their last answers, and with one player, going bankrupt still ends the program with the original's error message. The text is rewrapped for the narrower screen, the low-resolution pictures are the Apple's own, amounts are set with the joystick instead of typed, and the title tune is the listing's.

Controls: either joystick. An amount is set with the stick (up and down by 1, right and left by 10, held for faster) and entered with the left button; a choice is made with the stick and the left button. Where the original asked for RETURN to continue or ESC to end, the left button goes on and the right button ends. The keypad is not used.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a faithful adaptation of the original program. From the Apple II DOS 3.3 System Master: original Apple II BASIC (Applesoft) program, copyright 1979 Apple Computer Inc., after Bob Jamison's 1973 game for the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.