Re: The Complex II

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <2o9m1c$14l@ionews.io.org>, Brian Tao <taob@ionews.io.org> wrote:
>    The Complex II is now available on the io.org Apple II FTP site as
>/pub/apple2/New/the-complex-ii-1.0.shk:

>1288 -rw-r--r--  ftp  1305848 Apr  9 23:50 the-complex-ii-1.0.shk

   Blah... Your earlier post said some rather nice things about it,
such as it's supposed to give Tinies some competition and all for
freeware game of the year. I downloaded it, and I'm sorta going to
warn others before they do the same: The Complex II's docs indicate
that it's a networked game that works only over modems when connecting
to other Apple IIs or Macs. I have neither.

   Apparently, you can get into it in single user, console mode by
hitting 'D', but I haven't seen what it looks like. It's a ProDOS 8
game, so you can't run it under GNO or other niceties that Tinies has.

   If someone wants to review The Complex II as a single-player
'console' game, please do so. But, from the 'ReadMe' files, I didn't
really think that I could use Complex II very well, so I just kept
the .shk around for a little bit. Complex II may be a cool GS modem
game and all, and I applaud the effort that was put into it, but
you may want to wait before you download it.


Nathan Mates



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