New Apple IIgs Library Disks
Copyright (c) 1993 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
GS.158
A collection of 6 tunes that can be played with the MOD players from disk GS.125. These are: Affair, Airwolf, Aliver, Alwayson, Fairlite & Freudian. The styles are mainly modern funk.
GS.159
A collection of 7 tunes that can be played with the MOD players from disk GS.125. These are: MOD.1992, MOD.3BASS, MOD.4Ever, MOD.6beat, MOD.AcidBat, MOD.Acced, MOD.Last.dest. The styles are mainly modern funk.
GS.160
ANT WARS!
This is a shareware game by Karl Bunker. In this fast paced strategy game your objective is to command an army of red ants whose goal is to defeat an equal number of opposing black ants. Both sides start with six ants each. Your opponent is computer controlled and your objective is to pick off the enemy ants one by one by facing two of your ants towards any two sides of an opponent ant. The victim then disappears.. Addictive!
BOUCIN' FERNO II
The original FTA version of Bouncin'Ferno is a Marble Madness type of game, with stunning animations, incredible graphics, sound effects and music. 3 levels, each containing 25 different rooms, were defined by the FTA. The goals of Bouncin'Ferno are twofold: try to roll over small objects - the more objects rolled over, the higher the score - and try to advance to the next level. Some scoring objects are suspended high above the ground, while others are hidden under 3 dimensional ramps.
A contest was initiated in the USA by Incider/A+ to complete the game from its original concept. The contest winner of Bouncin' Ferno II is 14 year old Dustin Mitchell. The game is now completely GS/OS compatible; it's even hard drive installable and if launched from The Finder it returns the player to the Finder upon quitting the game.
In Bouncin'Ferno II, game play is essentially the same as in the FTA's original version. Enhancements include a superimposed playing field on top of a dazzling fractal graphic, and a musical soundtrack that plays continuous NoiseTracker music in the background. For late night sessions, that music can be turned off. The player's score is displayed on screen at all times, and as energy is gained or lost, the IIGS border changes colors. Each level is now also linked to it's own High Score module.
SHOWME!
Version 1.0b by Dave Leffler - ShareWare
ShowMe! is a combination New Desk Accessory (NDA) and Finder 6.0 Extension (FX) that will allow you to see an unobstructed full screen views of any type of IIGS Super HiRes Graphic, plus some other non-IIGS formats. You can also save the displayed graphic in a couple of different formats, and do some simple colour conversions.
You may view:
- Unpacked graphics (Screen) files
- Eagle/Packbytes format packed graphics files
- Apple Preferred Format packed graphics files
- PaintWorks packed graphics files
- PaintWorks Gold 640 mode packed graphics format
- PrintShop GS Color Graphics
- Unpacked 3200 Color pictures
- Packed 3200 Color pictures, "3201"-APP and APF.
- Graphics Interchange Format, GIF graphics versions 87a AND 89a
- MacPaint graphics, Full or Half height
You may save graphics: (does not apply to 3200 color pictures)
- Unpacked graphics (Screen) files
- Apple Preferred Format packed graphics files, Full or Screen Size
- Double Height Apple Preferred Format files, Full or Screen Size
You may convert: (does not apply to 3200 color pictures)
- 320 mode pictures into 640 mode color pictures
- 320 mode pictures into 640 mode gray scale pictures
- 320 mode to 640 mode
- 640 mode to 320 mode
- 640 mode to 320 mode with default palette
- 320 mode to 640 mode with default palette
You may also:
- Display more that one graphic at a time in a slide show fashion.
- Use it as a graphics previewer before launching a graphics application.
THE MANAGER
A demo of version 1.0 by Seven Hills Software.
The Manager is the first and only true MultiFinder for your Apple IIGS! Multiple applications can be open simultaneously, and moving among them is as simple as clicking in a different window. This is a tremendous time saver because you don't have to quit one application to start using another, which is especially nice when copying and pasting between applications.
This demo of the manager is limited to 3 applications being active at once and lasts only 10 minutes on your system. (The complete version of The Manager is available in Australia from Two Series Software on 02-606-9343).
GS.161
BACKGAMMON - Version 1.0
A shareware NDA by Bill Tudor. You may play backgammon against either the computer or another human opponent.
BASEBALL TRIVIA:
A game of trivia for baseball buffs. Requires two people for play and in fact played in a similar way to baseball itself... three incorrect answers and you're out!!
CDEV.ALIAS Version 1.0:
A Freeware NDA by Bill Tudor. CDev Alias allows you to add NDA Alias files to your Desk.Accs folder that will place an NDA item in the Apple menu that, when selected, will call up the Control Panel with the same name. This allows you to have quick and easy access to your most used Control Panels without having to first open up the Control Panel NDA itself.
COINFLIP
Coin Flip is a little NDA for those moments of indecisiveness, to use Coin Flip copy it into the DESK.ACCS folder in your SYSTEM folder on your System disk. To use Coin Flip, just select it from the Apple menu and click the 'Flip Coin' button, a coin flipping animation will be displayed and a random Heads/Tails result given.
CPU Use:
A freeware NDA. It gives you idea of have much CPU is being used...
DOS 3.3 LAUNCHER:
Version 2.0 of John MacleanÕs utilities. Allows you to convert your old DOS 3.3 programs to run under GSOS or ProDOS 8. This version allows you to run programs under on an Apple IIe /IIc and also run large games requiring disk swaps such as ÔTIMEZONEÕ.
LOCK.OUT Version 1.0:
An NDA that allows you to apply password security to your GS at bootup time.
MINEHUNT NDA:
Version 1.2.The object of Mine Hunt is simple. You are located at the upper-left corner of a minefield and the only help you have is a barely functional mine detector. Your mine detector can only sense how many mines are adjacent to your current square, including diagonals. For help during the game, press the "?" key.
To move, use the numeric keypad to move around. For example, "6" moves right, "8" moves up, and "9" moves diagonally up and right. Since I am a fan of the "inverted-T" key layout, the "5" key performs the same function as the "2" key. If the open-apple key is held down while pressing a number, the player will move as far as possible in that direction selected without running off the minefield, or into a mine.
The game ends when you either reach safety at the bottom-right corner of the minefield, or you step on a mine. In either case, all the buried mines are revealed to you. To play another game, press Control-X, or the <Clear> key on the numeric keypad.
MULTITRIS :
Version 0.9 by Nathan Mates. A great implementation of the Tetris game genre as an NDA. In this spinoff, instead of a certain fixed number of blocks per piece, MultiTris generates each piece on the fly, allowing for varied play that is never the same.
NIFTYLIST:
Version 3.4 from D.A.L. Systems. This CDA by David Lyons (Apple Computer) is a tool for people developing GS Software. It allows you to interrogate the system about tools in use, disassemble memory, find locations of windows, ports in memory, plus other things.
POWERGRID Version 1.0:
An NDA by Nathan Mates. Make a path from right to left without putting power into the water or nukes. Hammers clear columns and zaps provide power. Keys are used to control object motion. Shareware.
SHOVEIT:
This is a logic object manipulation game. The object is to use a pusher to move apples into boxes with as few moves as possible. Use the keypad to move the pusher. Avoid pushing apples into corners, clumps or walls without an outlet. You have a choice of 50 predesigned game layouts or design your own..
SOLITAIRE Version 1.02:
A Shareware NDA by Bill Tudor. If you enjoy playing solitaire with real cards then this computerised version will not disappoint.
GS.162
This disk contains 4 ÔPaintworks GoldÕ SHR animation files: ACHOO, BART, CONDITION.RED and NEFERTITI. The graphics in NEFERTITI is particularly staggering.. To help you look at these is an animation viewer.

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