Re: New IIgs owner.

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Blake Patterson wrote:

> supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote in message news:<20011216032725.14920.00000443@mb-fp.aol.com>...
>
> > The Apple IIGS is most similar to the Amiga 1000 in the C= world.
> > It doesn't have a 68000 processor but in every other aspect, it is
> > more Amiga-like than C64-like.  The ideal memory range of the
> > IIGS is 4MB to 8MB of memory which is direct accessed, not
> > page flipped.  The IIGS also has a display palette of 4096 colors
> > up to 3200 of which can be used in a display at once.  The sound
> > chip was the most advanced in its time - 32 channel wavetable
> > synthesis (the oscillators are doubled up for higher quality sound
> > resulting in 16 voices if you use the OS tools).
>
> The video / graphics situation with the IIgs makes it more like an
> Atari ST than an Amiga.

The first ST had fewer on screen colors at 320x200 than the GS did at 640x200. I think the GS, in the
color and sound department was roughly in the same league as the first ST and first Amiga, but let's face
it, the 65816 at 2.8 mhz is blown away by the 68000 at 8 mhz.

Roy

> But on the audio side, it's more Amiga-like.
> (It has notably higher quality sound than the Amiga, but pitiably
> little audio RAM.)  There's just not the custom gfx processor
> assistance in the IIgs that the Amiga enjoys.
>
> bp