Games you'd like to see ported to Apple II...

[returningmacuser]

I'd like to see the old NES classics, Castlevania, etc., on the IIgs.

Just an NES emulator itself would be kick-@$$ since the CPU used in both are nearly identical. The NES's 2A03 CPU is a modified 6502.

The problem is the NES had extra sound and video chips, which would have to be emulated as well. The last problem is that I don't think NES ROM files will fit on a 140K disk.

There are actually NES roms that are only 32K in size.

 

[Dog Cow]

There are actually NES roms that are only 32K in size.

DuckHunt.

 

[madcrow]

Probably there's plenty of games that could be converted to a Zip-chipped IIgs... I mean they got Wolfenstein 3D going on it, so why not a whole bunch of other games of that era. With the IIgs's awesome sound chip, why not, say Team 17's excellent Alien Breed top-down shooters?

 

[II2II]

Seriously. I spent a lot of my childhood with Applesoft BASIC and the Commodore 64 BASIC.

The image that comes to mind is of a cat playing with a ball of wool. ;D

Assuming that I'm the cat and the ball of wool is Applesoft, a better description would be a ball of wool playing with a cat.

Actually, I wasn't a bad programmer back then. It's amazing what you can accomplish without the Internet to distract you.

 

[arfink]

what about Portal, or team fortress II? Can we get one that is networked with a Uthernet card?

I want to see some simple but well executed NadaNet games. Maybe a port of Mazewars, or a multiplayer rogue or something like that.

 

[returningmacuser]

Probably there's plenty of games that could be converted to a Zip-chipped IIgs... I mean they got Wolfenstein 3D going on it, so why not a whole bunch of other games of that era. With the IIgs's awesome sound chip, why not, say Team 17's excellent Alien Breed top-down shooters?

All that would need to happen to make that truly viable would be for someone to start manufacturing accelerator cards for the IIGS again.

 

[porter]

It's no secret that the Apple II was Apple's best computer for gaming

It's not a secret, it's a myth.

When it was the only machine they offered you could claim it was the best Apple machine for anything at all.

 

[returningmacuser]

It's no secret that the Apple II was Apple's best computer for gaming

It's not a secret, it's a myth.

When it was the only machine they offered you could claim it was the best Apple machine for anything at all.

Ah, but add "GS" on the end and it becomes a different story entirely.

 

[MrMacPlus]

Doom

 

[Mollyz]

THREAD NECROMANCY !!!!!

How about Galaga... Gradius... Castlevania... Contra :>?

*hides under a rock*

 

[bhylak]

Ms. Pac-Man, Call of Duty, and Halo

 

[Osgeld]

splinter cell as a text + g adventure

 

[H3NRY]

I did a Pac Man and Mrs Pac Man, and Tapper, and Frogger, and some "3D" shooters, and some really awful ports of console games, and I got so sick of playing games... xx(

By the time you've tested every position and live / die / score situation of every level of a game, you forget how much fun you're having. Then after doing the Apple version, comes the C-64 version, and the Atari 400/800 version, and the Atari 5200 version, and the Genesis... well, you know...

Writing games will cure you of wanting to play them.

 

[Mollyz]

I cracked the official Apple ][ Ms. Pac-Man to a single file, I got it around here somewhere. (Not the "Diskman" crack that's been floating around since the '80s, but a new, clean crack.)

 

[Osgeld]

Writing games will cure you of wanting to play them.

the cure to writing games is ludemdare, then you just want to sit back and play for a while

then you start getting "itchy", and you know your going to make a game sometime soon

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