Re: Need help building Apple IIgs system dedicated to "Elite"

["mjenison" <jenison@enteract.com>]

Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> Well, I'm not sure if it was just me or not but when I played Elite on
> my IIgs years ago it had a little problem.  If you got into a fight
> and blew up an opponent's ship the debris would not be erased from
> your view screen so after taking out a few ships it was pretty much
> impossible to see.

Ah yes, you are right; I forgot about that.  I always used to switch
between views quickly after a ship was destroyed to manually refresh
the screen.

Maybe I should use an Apple IIe instead and look into accelerators for
it.  Elite on IIe just seems too slow.

Also, I found some information on a few devices that may work for the
"static drive":

AST Ramstak plus - seems like little information on this card, but I
can burn EPROMs, so I would be able to populate the EPROM sockets.
However, there are some jumpers on it and I have no documentation on
how to set them.  Anybody using this that can comment on their
performance in ROMdisk mode?

Or maybe this:
http://apple2.ca/?page=terromdrive
It runs Prodos though; maybe there is some way around that.

Then there is this, which looks promising:
http://redskulldc.50megs.com/Flashrom/Flashrom.html

I should be able to boot the Elite.dsk image from one of these, right?

-- 
Mark Jenison