Re: WOLF3D fot A2 GS

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spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>In article gavp@gis.net writes...
>
>>Where can I get WOLFSTEIN 3D for APPLE2 GS ?????
>
>    Download it from http://www.sheppyware.ml.org/software/wolf3d_gs
>One note though: while it can be made to run on a stock Apple IIgs 
>running off floppy disks (minus all sound, one scenario only and 
>unbearably slow) it really *requires* 4 MB, a hardrive and a fast 
>accelerator card to be anywhere near playable.

Agree on everything accept the need for an accelerator.

The accelerator makes play nice, but it is still an interesting game
without the accelerator.

Mitchell, you are spoiled....first by your IIGS accelerator, then by
your Wintel.  ;-)  (Not a flame, see the smiley)

The real enjoyment from Wolf GS is looking at it and shaking
ones head in amazement that they actually WROTE it for the
IIGS.  How it plays on accelerators and comparisons to Wintels
are secondary (and irrelevant)....

Like I was discussing with another user in email, if you constantly
pepper your thoughts with little comments like "but it is much
faster on a Wintel" or "but the resolution is much better on a
Wintel" you begin missing the point....the game was actually
successfully WRITTEN for the IIGS.  If you start making
comparisons, you diminish the scale of that accomplishment
(look at it another way, if they can write the Wintel version to
be as OPTIMIZED as the IIGS version, it would run a hundred
times faster).