Tempest wrote:
As some of you may remember, awhile back I had some questions about which Apple II games might not work on an Apple IIgs. I was amazed to
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I'm not exactly sure who will be interested in this information, but I hope someday it might make it into the Apple II FAQ. If anyone has an Apple IIgs set up and some original game disks (or non-cracked copies) laying around who can help me test, please post your results. I think this is going to be very enlightening... Tempest
I think this would be a great reference to have available. And before you feel left out, everyone who has a IIgs and runs games has run into this occasionally. Although the IIgs looks and acts like a IIe with an accelerator, it does some things differently and has soft switches that the IIe does not that can really throw some software or timing related programming tricks off. (Read copy protection, sometimes display tricks.)
You are right though, most of us get around this via using 'cracked' disks. Personally I have used Computist Magazine to remove the copy protection or deprotected or normalized the disks. This fixes a bunch of them, no doubt.
(Random thought: My Karateka disk does not boot on a IIc or a IIgs due to the diskette controller rom being different than the standard II/+/IIe controller.)
The star field menu program is called Beautiful Boot and is handy as it allows more disk space for storage. But you are right, it does not show the menu on a IIgs. I do not know why.
Thankx, Ed