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

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

mjenison 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.
>
> 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?

If I were doing it, I would plug a CFFA card into a IIgs
and set it up to boot into the game.

Since you only need ProDOS, the boot will take less time than
a CRT will take to warm up.  And it completely solves the problem
of saving game state, with no moving parts and no need for cooling.

-michael

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