Re: Really good Apple IIGS sound/music?

To: Mitchell Spector
On Sat, 17 May 2008 18:08:09 -0400, Mitchell Spector wrote:

I just created a 2MG disk-image so I could have a look at it in
an emulator (again, because of the ROM 3 incompatibility). You're
welcome to it, but is there an active Apple II FTP site to upload
software like this so it's not eventually lost?

I'd like to take a look so if you could e-mail it to me that would be
great.

As to FTP sites, the GNO Apple II Archive (previously know as Trenco) is
still around and I believe still accepts uploads. The only catch is you
need to get an account to upload. Apparently you need an account to
download from the web interface too but I always use anonymous FTP to
download from there.

A2Central has an FTP site as well but there isn't much there at present.

Other than those, I'm not sure where it would be appropriate to upload
IIgs demos.

That group and those demos are not listed at NinjaForce's "IIGS Demo
Scene reviewed" site at:

http://www.ninjaforce.com/html/special_demoscene.html

There are others missing as well, probably because they were
done by lesser known groups or didn't qualify as true demos. For
example, I don't see IBM Killers demo, Bullwinkle's LastRites '93
demo, all those menu-based ACS mini demos or Tim Meekin's
Software Experience demos. It'd be neat to have someone
create a website (a la Gaming Fairway) of IIgs demos.

I'm pretty sure I've seen the IBM Killers and Bullwinkle demos and I've
seen at least one ACS demo but which one, I'm not sure. I don't think
I've heard of the Software Experience demos.

If I had some web space, I'd probably put up some Apple IIgs related web
pages. I still have a page mostly done of all the Marinetti related
applications. I have posted it as a text file here in the past. From
time to time I've been looking at it to update it with the proper links
and such. I've even started converting all the information into an XML
file so that I can write a program to generate the HTML for me and that
way I'll only ever have to update the XML file in the future.

I could probably do something like this for other types of archives as
well. The one thing I really miss about the GEnie archive is the short
and long descriptions you could get for the files as well as being able
to do keyword searches.

Having another look all these years later, I just noticed this is
actually called "G-Iffing Volume 2". It's a musical 256 color slide
slow with some scrolling text taking shots at the Amiga mainly.
Nothing very exciting, but it does have the same nice stereo
panning effects and ear filling music as Monkey Island.

I didn't have a stereo card for my IIgs for a very long time. I think I
finally got one in 1998 or so, so running these types of demos now I get
to experience something new. :-)

I really need to go through all my old archives and see what I've got.
Heck, I need to go through my Time In A Bottle CDs to check out things
that I didn't want to pay to download from GEnie. I'm sure I've missed
out on some gems.
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