I'm looking for two computer games that I played in the early 80s (on
an Apple IIe):  1) "Copts and Robbers," a game that involved being a
grave-robber in an ancient Egyptian tomb. You had to navigate through
a two-dimensional maze of colored blocks to find the treasure, while
avoiding the ghosts that haunted the tomb.  2) A game where you would
fly a helicopter on missions (called "sorties") to rescue little stick
people from their burning houses.  There were tanks that would shoot
up the houses (hence the fires) and would shoot at your helicopter
while you were on the ground rescuing people. I can't remember the
name of this game, but I think it may have been something like "Chop
Copter."  Are these games available anywhere now to play on a PC?

Hello.

The helicopter game that you remember was probably "Choplifter," a
very popular Apple II game back in the day.

The first thing that you need is an Apple II Emulator for Windows. See:
All Apple Emulators, hosted by eewe.com
http://www.eewe.com/allappleemus/articles.php?articleid=2

Then you need disk images of the old games.  

Note that the following web sites have disk images of old Apple II
games for download.  Whether these sites have permission to post these
20+ year old games is unclear.  You may want to check with the site
owners and carefully consider copyright issues for downloading any
games from these sites. No warranties are expressed or implied.
Proceed with caution.

See:
All Apple Emulators  For the PC. Relive the good times!
http://www.eewe.com/allappleemus/list.php?type=Apple%20II

Another Apple II FTP site that has both Choplifter and Copts and Robbers:
APPLE2.ORG.ZA
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/games/file_based/

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search strategy:
"apple ii", choplifter
"copts and robbers" apple
coptsandrobbers_lemmings.dsk.gz  

I hope this helps.

Thank you!

The helicopter game may be "Airlift". Certainly there was an 80s game
called "Airlift" anyway.