Re: Loading GS games into a hard disk

[Alex Lee <alelee@mac.com>]

On 2010-05-23 19:27:05 +1000, SlickRCBD <slickrcbdnews@gmail.com> said:

> On May 17, 8:38 pm, KP <kjpm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are various GS games configured in such a way that they cannot run if
> > the files are all transferred from a floppy to a hard disk?  For
> > example, Arkanoid 2 appears to hang when booted from a subdirectory of
> > a hard disk rather than from the original floppy.
> >
> > Or do I just need to do some special trick with the configuration to
> > make it work?
>
> There's a crack out there somewhere for Arakanoid and several others.
> I don't know where to find it today, as I got them from Big Red
> Computer Club's public domain library.
> Unfortunately, my IIGS is in storage, but I might be able to make
> diskcopy images of the original BRCC disk using my old PowerMac 6500.
> I just don't know where to upload them.
> I don't have the ability to make shrinkit archives at this time. Maybe
> when I move again.

As I mentioned, you won't have to worry about finding individual cracks 
if you follow my links found at the end of my review of the CFFA card:

http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/cffa-card-review/
--
- Alex
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/