Re: Apple IIgs Gaming Questions

["Craig Bower" <to.email.me@post.a.request.message>]

"Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote in message 
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> Well I put in my old Unidisk card and my IIgs boots from my 5.25, but
> Moon Patrol and Stargate still don't work (although Gremlins does now).
> I'll have to dig through my other games to see what works and what
> doesn't, but I'm curious as to why these still don't work.

Hi There,

Why they don't work has been somewhat covered earlier in the thread.
These disks are Copy-Protected modified DOS 3.3 Boot/Loader disks.
Publishers did this on the game disks to "prevent" copying.  95% of these
games have been cracked and pirated to disks without the modified
DOS 3.3 Boot/Loader routines, and are really easy to "put onto the IIgs
and get them to boot."

Here's a viable option:

If you'd like to do away with the floppy shuffle, buy one of Rich Dreher's
Compact Flash for Apple interface cards.

I've got a cracked version of Moon Patrol loaded onto the 4th 32MB
partition of my CFFA 128 MB Sandisk card, and it runs flawlessly
under ProDOS on my Apple IIgs.

Save yourself the aggravation of trying to sort out which card in the IIgs 
for
which games.  Buy the CFFA, get a 128 MB compact flash card, and then
mirror the Asimov site, picking and choosing which file-based pirated games
you'd like to load onto the IIgs.  Set them all up in an emulator, or use
Andy McFadden's Ciderpress to create disk images of the games you'd like
to have on the IIgs.  Then using ADT, transfer the DSK images to disks on 
the
IIgs, and finally, use system utilities to send the files to a partition on 
your CF
card.

Some older DOS 3.3 games won't work under ProDOS as they try to write
into memory locations that ProDOS has reserved.  If such is the case, and 
the
game is trying to load into the text screen, for example, it'll crash.

To eliminate this problem, do the following "poke" from the command prompt
prior to BRUNning the game in question.

POKE 48984,192

It works for about 95% of the cracked DOS 3.3 wares under ProDOS.

Voila, Moon Patrol and many others will now be Hard-Disk capable and
run on your IIgs.  No Disk ][ Controller required! :)

Later,
Craig