Re: Hard Drive Installable Apple IIgs Games?

[Mitchell Spector <mitch2gs@hotmail.com>]

"Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote:

>Which Apple IIgs games can be installed/played from a hard drive (HFS
>or ProDos)?  

    Typically the more recent the game, the more likely it was hardisk
installable. For those games that were hard coded to work off floppy
disk, patches were made available (for example, I have Zany Golf,
The Immortal, Winter Games and Rastan installed on my hardisk).

    Besides individual patches, someone from France released a
program called "HD Install" which allowed several different IIgs
games to be installed to hardisk. You can probably download it
from the Ground FTP site mirror (below is the documentation that
came with it, translated from French to English)...

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/msg/47f3fac00bef4717?dmode=source&hl=en

    I have 64 MB of hardisk space filled with IIgs games. If you'd 
like, I can list them here to give you an idea of some of the more
popular games that could be installed to hardisk.

>Also, other than saving on disk swapping, is there any
>speed benefit from playing a game from the hard drive?

    Definitely. Loading times from an Apple 3.5 floppy drive were
painful, loading from a hardisk just made it a pleasure as things
*instantly* loaded (especially with a RamFAST SCSI and 4500 
RPM drive or faster!).

    Speaking of hardisk patched games, Bill Heineman rewrote
Tass Times in Tone Town for GS/OS around 1992 which was
hardisk installable. Does anyone have a copy?

Mitchell Spector