Re: IIgs...long delay and monitor glitches

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labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>Are there any other 01 vs 03 things I should know about?
>
>BTW, I remembered someone talking about how Ensoniq chips were hard to
>replace...one of the refurb places (can't remember which for sure but I'm
>thinking shreve) has 'dead' IIgs boards for sale. Now, they're fairly
>cheap, and something tells me that an ensoniq might be something to not
>die as often as other parts of it, so for a fairly reasonable price you
>can grab 2 or 3 and see if you can get a working ensoniq chip out of it.

In general, the ROM 3 is the better unit.  It has more standard
motherboard memory (1MB), saves a slot when doing AppleTalk,
has built in "Easy Access" tools so that you can run the computer
without a mouse for example, has less noisy sound output, and
a couple of other things I can't recall right now.  The quickdraw
on the ROM 3 is supposed to be a bit faster.

The downside: the Ensoniq is soldered on the ROM 3 rather
than in a socket like the ROM 01.

I've kept reading that when the ROM 03 was first released, many
older games and demos would not work, however most of this
stuff has been rewritten to be ROM 03 friendly.