19 May
2000
19 May
'00
12:41 a.m.
Sellam wrote:
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip)
wrote:
<...>
As long as we're talking about SoftDisk, I may as well shamelessly hijack
the conversation. At least I changed the subject.
The one SoftDisk issue I owned (I'm not sure if I have it anymore) had a
demo for a game called Alien Encounter. This game was made by BEZ (who also
made things like Double Trouble, two arcade games side-by-side controlled by
the same joystick -- another one I no longer have) and featured a series of
puzzles.
I'm wondering if anyone else has ever heard of that game.
-- Derek
Well then
this brings me back to wondering how those programs that allowed
mixed video modes on the Apple ][ worked. They required no hardware mods.
Hmmm.
I wasn't aware that any such programs existed, especially for the II. Any
examples I should be on the lookout for?
I have a bunch of Softdisk disks, mostly for the GS though (some will
work on earlier machines). I haven't really looked through them all
You need to get issues from the '83-'86 range to find the demos I'm
talking about. SoftDisk had an advertising "section" on each issue and
there was one company that sold development tools to build programs with
mixed mode screens that advertised almost every issue.