Re: Best of Apple II games?

limtc <thyechean@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wanted to create an 800K disk worth of Apple II games for my kids (3
of them, just in case). All of them now started to learn computers and
what's better than letting them check out the best of Apple II?

I prepare to set up an Apple IIGS with 1MHz for Apple II gaming
purpose. So now my questions are:

- anybody done this before already? An 800K disk full of great Apple
II games?

Probably. :)

- since I need to use 3.5" disk, probably that means ProDOS... what
games run under ProDOS...?

Many of the load-and-go games written for DOS 3.3 will work just fine
with ProDOS. Launch them from BASIC.System with the "-" command. Works
from a 3.5" disk, a hard drive, a CF drive, or a RAMdisk. Raster Blaster
is one such game I know works because I've played it recently.

Games that do disk access while running probably won't work, unless they're
written in Applesoft.

- is there a good Startup program that will automatically list out
games and let user select it (used to be very popular in DOS 3.3)...?

You can write your own in Applesoft, though I forgot the trick to get
BASIC.System to run it at boot. Does it run Hello like DOS 3.3? Ack!
I can't remember, but I think so.

And last... based on the above (probably means ProDOS based), what
good Apple II games should I show to them?

Your kids are probably too young to appreciate my favorites (Wizardry,
North Atlantic '86, Transylvania, the Roberta Williams adventure games).

Try pinball (Raster Blaster, Dave's Midnight Magic, Night Mission),
Super Taxman II (Pacman variant), Choplifter, Lode Runner, Snake Byte,
and Sabotage (if you don't mind the violence of shooting at stick figures
descending with parachutes). Canonball Blitz (Donkey Kong clone) is a
load-once game, I think.

Mike
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