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Who here knows how to boot an Apple ][ game in GSPLUS? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ashinadash@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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GSPLUS seems pretty cool at first, and I can download a .hdv image of a hard drive and run lots of GS stuff, but I cannot run Wizardry: Proving Ground of the Mad Overlord. If you use the F4 menu to put it (BOOT.DSK, 143kb) in the appropriate slot (S6D1) the "check startup device" screen appears. (coincidentally the Wizardry manual does not contain any instructions that I see, there's no LOAD "*",8,1 or anything like that) I can also boot into PRODOS8 and try PREFIX,S6,D1 or whatever to no avail. No earlier version of PRODOS boots in this emulator either.

I know this is something I'm doing wrong because the same image boots just fine in AppleWin which I built in arch. I don't understand why this doesn't work; most internet resources confidently state that you can jam an Apple ][ game into a 5.25" drive on a IIGS and boot it happily. Not so with GSPLUS. Is it not at all capable of running Apple ][ games? Any help is appreciated.

EDIT: As a comedy bonus, if I take the same BOOT.DSK and fire it into the version of GSPLUS in Batocera, it boots the game fine there. Incredible stuff. As a bonus it won't get past the title screen, but that is probably a Batocera thing.

EDIT 2: No progress on standalone GSPLUS but both Mame (in r*troarch and standalone) as well as the libretro GSPLUS core will boot Wizardry if the disk is read-only, both in the computer's file system and in the emulator. Amazing.

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[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hm, no idea. It's the one you get off of this crusty place, I know there are different revisions but didn't think it would matter.

Yeah IIgs moment =) I am mostly trying to run the game via MAME now but that's on Batocera hooked up to a CRT, which is its own can of worms...

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[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

MAME is great. I seem to remember commodore64 emulators being quite good, as well.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

MAME is pretty cool but the accursed cowards at R*troarch have it set up to not take direct keyboard input!! catgirl-hiss The standalone version does it fine...

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