Total Replay

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Total Replay is a modern collection, put together by 4am and released for free: hundreds of Apple II games on one hard disk image, each started from a single launcher, with the copy protection taken out of every one so that they run from a hard disk. Its launcher shows the box art of the games in the Super Hi-Res graphics of the Apple IIgs when it finds a VidHD, a modern card that gives those graphics to an Apple //e.

This page starts Total Replay on an enhanced //e with a VidHD, looks at its attract mode, and finds and starts a game.

What you need

Total Replay v6.1.hdv, Total Replay 6.1, from the Internet Archive. It is a 32 MB hard disk image. ./fetch-disks.sh in this repository downloads it into disks/.

The machine

An enhanced Apple //e with Total Replay as its hard disk:

• the 65C02 processor at 1 MHz and 128 KB of memory: 64 KB on the board, the top 16 KB of it the memory of a language card, which izapple2 puts in slot 0, and 64 KB more on the extended 80 column card, in the auxiliary slot;
• a VidHD card in slot 2, for the Super Hi-Res graphics;
• a hard disk interface, SmartPort, in slot 7, with Total Replay.

izapple2 -model none -board 2e -cpu 65c02 -screen color \
    -rom "<internal>/Apple2e_Enhanced.rom" \
    -charrom "<internal>/Apple IIe Video Enhanced.bin" \
    -s0 language \
    -s2 vidhd \
    -s7 'smartport,image1=disks/Total Replay v6.1.hdv'

The enhanced Apple //e izapple2 starts with, its model 2enh, has this machine, with 8 MB more of memory on a RAMWorks card, a No-Slot Clock, a FASTChip accelerator, a Mockingboard and a Disk II controller more:

izapple2 -screen color "disks/Total Replay v6.1.hdv"

The launcher

1. Start izapple2 with the command above. The machine starts from the hard disk in slot 7, and the launcher of Total Replay comes up: the characters of its games around its name, and the number of games at the bottom.

   

2. Wait. Left alone, the launcher shows its games one after the other, the box art of some in Super Hi-Res, the title screens of others.

   

   Super Hi-Res is 320 dots across with 16 colours of 4096 for each line, the graphics of the Apple IIgs; the //e had nothing like it until the VidHD.

Play a game

1. Press Escape, to go back to the launcher, and type karateka. The launcher finds the game as you type, and shows its title.

   

2. Press Return. The box art of Karateka, Jordan Mechner’s game of 1984, and the game itself.

   

   

   Reset, Control-F2 in izapple2, goes back to the launcher from any game. Type ? in the launcher for its help.

What next

Lode Runner is one of the games of Total Replay, started there from a copy of its own disk, protection and all.