Apple II games

[TheEisenfaust]

I've got an Apple IIGS, and I've been really wanting to game on it, my only problem is my limited software selection. I found a website online that allows you to play Apple II games on an Apple IIe by plugging an iPhone/iPad into the cassette port on it and pressing a key combo on your IIe, then hitting play on the iPhone/iPad. I WANNA DO THAT!!! The problem is that since I have an Apple IIGS, I don't think I'm able to do that without an adapter or interface card... Thoughts?

 

[Dog Cow]

How do you want to expand your software collection? What disk drives have you?

 

[david__schmidt]

1. Use the (original) serial version: http://sourceforge.net/projects/a2gameserver/

2. Play games online: http://virtualapple.org/

3. Make and use physical floppy disks: http://adtpro.sourceforge.net

 

[magnusfalkirk]

Go here: http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/ and download a copy of ADTPro and then either make yourself a cable to run between your modern computer and the GS or order one from here: http://retrofloppy.com/products.html and you'll be able to transfer Apple II disk images that you can find online, such as here: ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/ or here: http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/ ore here: http://macgui.com/downloads/?cat_id=53, back to real disks to run on the GS. Another option would be something like this: http://dreher.net/?s=projects/CFforAppleII&c=projects/CFforAppleII/main.php that you can install in the GS and then use either CF cards or Flash Drives to run the old Apple II game disk images from.

Hope this helps.

 

[TheEisenfaust]

@magnusfalkirk Dude... You have officially made my day. Soon as I get paid, I'm making this happen! I've seen the CF card for Apple II, but since he hasn't made more of them I have no idea how much they cost... I'd love to get my hands on one though! I'd be able to finally install GS/OS 6! Thanks for all the info by the way. I really appreciate it.

 

[James1095]

ADT Pro rocks. Keep in mind that most of those CF cards work as prodos volumes while most of the classic games are floppy booters and need either a real floppy drive or something that emulates one.

 

[magnusfalkirk]

james1095,

that's the beauty of the CFFA3000, it will mount 5.25 or 3.5 or HD images on your Apple //. The computer sees the images as a physical floppy so you can play games or do whatever you would with the real disk without having to transfer the image back to real disk. There are times where a real disk is better but I really like the CFFA3000 and wouldn't trade it for anything.