Re: Most Wanted Apple IIgs Ports

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

adric22@yahoo.com wrote:

>I have an Apple IIgs, but have hardly used it.  It is the only 8 bit
>line (okay, I know it is 16-bit) of Apple I have ever had.  It was
>given to me a year ago.  I was a big Commodore and Amiga fan, so I'm
>very familiar with the era, but not too sure what to do with it.

    I'm the opposite. I was (and still continued to be) a huge Apple IIGS fan
and picked up an Amiga in recent years but never really did much with it.
Part of that reason is it's missing the internal 3.5 floppy drive. :)

    The IIGS is rather like Apple's version of the Amiga, so in that respect 
there's several decent games for it, music programs and even demos
(the two demo scene groups worth looking at are FTA and Ninjaforce).
    
>I managed, after several days of trying, to get some GS/OS disks made up
>for it.  However, I never got any games or anything.  Is there a list
>of games available that were made just for the IIgs?

    Coincidentally, I put together a list a couple of weeks ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_IIGS_games

>I hate to say it on this group (but I will anyway) that most regular Apple II 
>games were horrible compared to the C64 counterparts.  But I bet the IIgs 
>could make many of those games rock if they were ported.

    Definitely check out Zany Golf, The Immortal, Rastan, Task Force,
Out of This World, Wolfenstein 3D, Super Mario Bros (and if you've 
ever played the Amiga ports, Rocket Ranger, Thexder and Zany Golf
are worth checking out just for the music alone, to name a few).

Mitchell Spector