Re: New IIgs owner.

[blake@blakespot.com (Blake Patterson)]

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.  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