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Re: Need help building Apple IIgs system dedicated to "Elite"
On 8 Jun 2005 11:13:22 -0700, "mjenison" <jenison@enteract.com> wrote:
>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.
I never thought of trying that. Mind you, I had lots of other games
to play and since then I've gotten a few IIe's that I can always set
up to play Elite on now.
>Maybe I should use an Apple IIe instead and look into accelerators for
>it. Elite on IIe just seems too slow.
When I played Elite on my IIe, I used to have a real hard time docking
with a station. I can't imagine what it would be like to try to dock
when things are running 2.5 times faster. :)
>Also, I found some information on a few devices that may work for the
>"static drive":
The only thing with the drives you mention is that they all need to
have the operating system modified so that they will be recognized
(with the exception of Terrence's ROM drive as I believe it appears to
ProDOS as a block device). I'm pretty sure Elite is going to be on a
DOS 3.3 or variant disk so getting one of those devices booting and
being able to then run Elite (which I don't think was ever cracked
down to the file level) would be difficult.
This is just my opinion. I'm not exactly sure what difficulties you
might run into trying to do this so others might be able to give you
better advice.
Another option like the ones you mentioned already is the Compact
Flash For Apple II (aka CFFA) card. Information about it can be found
at:
http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php
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