Re: Applied Engineering, where is everyone now?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

god23@heaven.org (Bart) wrote:

>>answers emails.  ///SHH Systeme also makes cache upgrades
>
>So...for those of us who would like to also experience this and were not lucky

>enough to buy an original, does ///SHH have plans to runn off a new batch of 
>TWGS?

Sadly, no.  No one has the motivation to make a new IIGS
accelerator card.  I tried to get CMD, the makers of the
SuperCPU accelerators for the Commodore 64 and the
Commodore 128 to make some products for the IIGS.  The
representative emailed me saying that some products were
indeed feasable.  For example, he said that if they wanted
to, they could make a cable interface between the IIGS
SmartPort and the Commodore 1571 floppy drive (which
they make a clone for).  The benefit of this is that the 1571
can read and write MS-DOS MFM formatted disks.  But
he pointed out that CMD did not believe they would sell
the same number of units to IIGS users as they would to
Commodore folks.

By this logic, why do we see so many Focus drives being
bought from Alltech?  I would venture to say that more
Focus drives have been sold in the last few months by
Alltech than SuperCPUs have been sold by CMD.  IIGS
users seem to be buying plenty of hardware.