Re: Rare IIgs Games

[trout@netspace.net.au (SE)]

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:56:08 +1000, helix@hunter.apana.org.au (Helix
Energy) wrote:

>
>I had a look and what I found was interesting, although not perfect :-)
>There is a GNO/ME executable which acts as an Infocom interpretor,
>although which Infocom games it will play remains unsure.  There is a
>ReadMe left there by Marc Sira, who states it will play the games included
>in the Lost Treasures of Infocom, so it doesn't look likely that it would
>play the later Infocom text/graphic adventures.

Shogun & most of the other later games were included in the PC & MAC
Lost Treasures 2 collection, but of course they were not in the IIgs
collection. So you may be right. 

>Do you have the IIgs version of Shogun?  I mean, a real, 16-bit Apple IIgs
>native version?  There is an 8-bit version of Shogun around on a 3.5 inch
>disk, as there is one of Zork Zero, but I'm only interested in a 16-bit
>version for now.  If you do have it, please attach it to an email
>addressed to me :-)

There is a Shogun binary at apple.cabi.net (I think that is where I
found it) which when run claims to be using a IIGS native Infocom
interpreter (version 6.9). The data for this is spread over 5 files,
however, which makes it look suspiciously as though they've been
lifted straight from the 8 bit 5 1/4" disk version. The graphics also
look decidedly 8 bit. I tried using this interpreter with the data
files from my PC version of Shogun and from my Masterpieces of Infocom
CD version of Zork Zero and failed dismally. I think this must have
been because the IIGS interpreter will only accept the split data
files from the IIe version. If this is the case, I don't know what can
be done to get around the problem. :-(

SE