Re: Dark Heart of Uukrul IIgs/IIc Plus Version?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote:

>Today I stumbled across a strange picture for the box for Dark Heart of
>Uukrul.  Instead of the normal IIe/IIc/IIgs label it said it was
>specifically for the IIc Plus/IIgs.  Is this version any different than
>the IIe version?  

    Presumably they were referring to the media it shipped on: 800K
3.5 floppy disk. The Apple IIc Plus and Apple IIGS were the only
members of the Apple II line where a 3.5 drive was standard.

>The only reason I can think that something would be
>listed as being for the IIc Plus or IIgs would be the speed (or
>possibly the 3.5" drive), since the IIc Plus couldn't do any special
>graphics like the IIgs can.  Anyone have more information on this?

    There was never a GS-specific version of this game released (or
to the best of my knowledge, unreleased). As for the IIc Plus, there
was no such thing as a "IIc Plus" specific piece of software, seeing
as feature-wise it is identical to the IIc (albeit with a Zip Chip installed
out of the box). In fact I'm pretty sure I have Dark Heart on 5.25
format in my collection of disks that runs just fine on the IIe/IIc.

    Incidentally, the IIGS and IIc Plus operate differently speed-wise.
Due to the IIc Plus's caching method of acceleration and its "hit"
or "miss" scheme, some 8-bit games actually run _faster_ on the 
2.6 MHz IIGS than the 4 MHz IIc Plus. So scratch any speed
requirement theory.

Mitchell Spector