Re: Old Apple II games

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Charles Forbin writes ...
> 
> mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20010809033448.06506.00000983@mb-fc.aol.com>...
> 
> > Your easiest strategy is to find "deprotected" ("cracked")
> > versions of the games you want to archive,
> 
> Funny you should mention that... I have a ton of cracked A2 games on
> self-booting DOS 3.3 disks, but a significant chunk of them are going
> bad.  I intend to replace the games, but would prefer the cracked
> versions to legit ones (mostly because I really enjoy the crackers'
> start-up screens).  I wonder, is there's a good place to download
> cracked versions?

     Asimov has the largest collection of deprotected 8-bit Apple II games.
Another good collection is on Tarnover. For links to these and other A2 game
sites go to http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs7GAMESITES.html .

     For information about file formats and related utilities, see
http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FLUTILS.html .



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