Post by Nick WestgatePost by PolymorphIt's funny, I nearly pushed back because I remember when I had tried
running the image from WITA2GS on either my //c or //e was that the
actual error was "Requires a IIgs", but it had been a month or two
since trying it and I didn't want to look stoopid if I was
mis-remembering. ;-)
Fair enough. I'm surprised I didn't remember that error, because it's
completely unexpected for a collection of 8-bit software!
Instead, I only remember successfully running it on a //e, forgetting
that I had to delete that file to do it. ; - )
The image is apparently based on "The Definitive File Game Library" by
"Captain Sensible - Shiftr Shiftr - The Screamer - Two Knives Tan" from
1988.
They note: "The Definitive File Game Library will only work on the Apple IIgs."
I wish they'd elaborated on what they did, because most of the games
work fine on a //e. Some don't and I'd like to know why. Another
project to file away for a rainy day!
Partly true. When I came across the Definitive File Game library files,
I only included them on the image if I couldn't find a single binary
from any other collection to minimise IIGS specificity. From memory, I
thought it might only be a dozen titles. Perhaps another collection I
borrowed from was IIGS specific as well and I wasn't aware of it.
I started compiling this collection as far back as 2012, so I can't
remember the details any better than what I wrote up for it from the
original blog post I released in 2014:
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/time-out-for-some-8-bit-fun-iigs-style/
I kept in mind that I wanted it to be as 8-bit compatible as possible,
but I never did any testing on real or emulated 8-bit machines. John M
Holmes Jr has taken the image and modified it with a keener eye on
making it work on a IIe. AKAIK you can only find his 32meg image via
the Apple II Enthusiasts Group on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/5251478676. If you do a search on 'John
M Holmes Jr' and scroll down, you'll eventually find his most recent
version.
Also, for anyone that's keen to run more stuff from a hard drive, my
most recent effort (thanks to qkumba and Marco Verpelli) has been
taking 3.5" disk versions of 8-bit eduwares and modifying them to run
from a hard drive / large ProDOS volume:
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/8-bit-eduware-on-32meg-disk-image/
- Alex