Re: Rare IIgs Games

[helix@hunter.apana.org.au (Helix Energy)]

In article <19990615034828.10458.00002011@ng-fj1.aol.com>,
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> helix@hunter.apana.org.au (Helix Energy) wrote:
> 
> [posted to comp.sys.apple2 and emailed]
> 
> >As maintainer of the Apple IIgs Gaming Memory Fairway, I'm becoming
> >increasingly curious as to the rumours surrounding the development of some
> >IIgs games that were never released.  The Fairway archive is currently
> >quite complete in regards to every IIgs game that was released between
> >1986 to 1990.  But I'd like to know if I'm overlooking any games, and,
> >there are any truth to the rumours of certain games made for the IIgs
> 
> Interesting.  Does your collection include shareware, freeware, and PD
> games?  I'm asking because there were a couple of IIGS games that
> were written and released as such because a publisher could not be
> found.  Cosmocade, by Brian Greenstone, comes to mind, as does
> several others (Space Clusters, Sensei Karate, Dueltris, etc).  I feel that
> any comprehensive collection of games should include the big shareware,
> freeware, and PD ones.
> 
> Cosmocade was written by the same people who went on to write
> Nanosaurs (the game that's included with the iMac) for Macs.
> Greenstone and his partner could not find a publisher for the game,
> so it was released as shareware.
> 
> Dueltris is a shareware game from DreamWorld software, the folks
> who brought us DreamGraphix.
> 
> Let's not forget Brutal Deluxe.  Tinies for the IIGS may be freeware,
> but remember, the Mac version is commercial.  ;-)  Cogito is much
> the same way and the IIGS version now works with the Second
> Sight card to display SVGA graphics on the IIGS.
> 
> To not include such high quality games would be a crime.  They
> are as good as any of the commercial games released.

I must admit, the more I've been thinking about freeware/shareware games,
the I think you're right that they should be included.  The reason they
aren't currently part of the Fairway is mainly because they're already
freely available.  In getting an archive of every IIgs commercial game I
wanted them to all be cracked, have their lame crack screens removed :-),
work as best they could with emulators, for every IIgs game ever made,
before disks start to die to the point where some games could be lost
forever.

I'll see what can be done on Freeware/Shareware stuff.  I'd include
Pangea's stuff, DuelTris, Plotting, Ken Franklin's cool games (One Arm
Battle, Plunder and Milestones 2000)...and lots of other stuff I can't
remember at the moment :-)

LaTeR!