Re: PCT

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

jfenske@muug.mb.ca (John Fenske) writes:

Thanks for your reply.

: You can play the older style games but with only CGA you are very limited.
: Besides most of these games have some sort of counter-part in a GS game which
: are much better. The only game I have used on the PCT is SimCity as the GS
: doesn't have it. I tried Lemmings but the graphics were poor (4 colors -
: pink, black, white and black) and was terribly slow. I wouldn't recommend
: buying the PCT for game playing.

I am looking for games that are not available under GS. Some Apple II games
that don't have GS counterpart might look better in CGA too.

I am also looking for Space Invader, Galaxian type of game. Yes, old classics.

: I have already installed DOS 6 on my pct partitions and has worked without
: problems so far. I get an average of 30% to 40% more disk space with no
: noticable slow down in speed.

Other comments I get for PCT is to get DOS 3.3/Stacker combination to save
harddisk space.
  
: Actually you don't need anything except maybe the new pkZip. You can download
: the files on the Apple side (even unpack them with apple unzip,Lzh utilities)
: and then use the "transfer" program that is part of PCT to move them to the
: DOS side. Though, you'll find extracting zipped etc. files is quicker on the
: PCT side so you'll need the barrage of archive utilities that comes with
: using DOS. Most major DOS ftp sites has a archives or pkzip folder with
: these.

Thanks. Have you used a comm software on your PCT before?

: For starters, because the pct runs under prodos 8, you are limited to a max
: 16 meg partition (unless someone has found another way). You can have more
: than one partition though. How much is up to the user and what DOS software
: you have. Remember though that DOS programmers are extremely lazy and their
: programs are huge. PC Tools took almost 7 Meg, Word Perfect 5.1 takes 5 Meg,
: DOS 6 took around 2 Meg, Nortons took around 5 Meg. etc. and you now see that
: I more than used up my first partition with only 3 programs. Of course, it
: all depends on what you want in the drive.

What? I only planned 8MB (don't laugh) for my new toy.

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