Re: help with some info on Apple II games?

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <33Ehd.558328$8_6.55255@attbi_s04> steven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone can help me with finding information on a 
> couple of Apple II games??.. I tried to search the web and have come 
> up w/ zip on a couple that I remember from back then..
>
> both games were circa 1986 or earlier
> I believe that both games were on different disks that had several 
> different games on them (aka not a single title).

That normally means the copy protection on the original disks had been 
cracked and the games had been copied on to a standard DOS disk. From 
there they were generally pirated in all directions. That's how I got to 
play them anyway. In my defence I was barely a teenager at the time!

> Game #1: called "Falcons" (premise was sort of like "Demon Attack" I 
> think, if you remember that later game)... can't seem to find anything 
> on this one..

I remember playing Falcons. It was a clone of the arcade game Phoenix.

> Game #2: can't remember the title, but it was sort of a spy chasing 
> bad guys thing.. here's my artists rendering ;) http://home.comcast.
> net/~kosto2/unkn_apple_game.jpg
>
> premise: you were a spy in hunt of a crook, he is trying to get to the 
> top of the building (to escape), and you have to chase after him. The 
> elevators all move up and down (by themselves, and independent of each 
> other). You start at the lower left and have to move to the right side 
> to get on the little platform to move you up to the next level, where 
> you have to head back to the other side. All the time avoid being hit 
> by these moving elevators, other bad guys throwing stuff at you, etc..

That's either Spy's Demise or a very similar game. The picture matches 
my memory of it too.

There are disk images of Falcons and Spy's Demise here:
<http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/apple2/images/games/action/>

The download link the mirror uses gets truncated after the apostrophe in 
the filename for Spy's Demise, but this direct link  works:
<http://downloads.planetmirror.com/pub/apple2/images/games/file_based/
spy'sdemise_spystrikeback.dsk.gz>

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://vintageware.orcon.net.nz/
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