Re: Apple II GS Questions

[Jeff Lemke <lemke@terra.cira.colostate.edu>]

Brian Hammack wrote:
> 
>  Bob chanted almost zenlike back at me:
> 
>  RC(| Thanks to everyone for all the help!  One last question, if I
> 
> One?  :)
> 
>     | download stuff from the net from asimov, how hard is it to
>     | transfer this stuff from my PC to the GS?  Also, if I was to get
> 
> Not terribly hard.  A null-modem cable between the PC and the GS, or a
> phone wire between the modems of the two computers, or use a middleman
> like a BBS to send then receive...  Yeah, the latter two require you
> have a modem on the GS, but you really should have one.  :)
> 
>     | a modem for the GS, can I connect to the internet with it?  If
> 
> Yes.
> 
>     | so, what kind of software will I need to get?  I love the old
> 
> ProTerm 3.1, or Spectrum 2.x, and you'll want Marinetti 2.0
> 
> The question you really wanted to ask was, how do I get connected?  The
> best is to have a server that does everything in text like a BBS,
> instead of requiring you do to a TCP/IP connection (the tools for the
> GS are in the beginning stages; the connection software exists but the
> apps for it are still coming).
> 
>     |  I also have a Lazer 128, Apple compatible I got from Sears in
>     | 1989.  How would this compare to the GS?
> 
> It compares to a //c.  The GS does 4096 colors, 11 voices, 8 megs RAM,
> runs 16-bit forked files, slices, dices, julliens, and plain rocks.
> 


The IIgs may have a palatte of 4096 colors to choose from, but it cannot
display more than 16 of those colors at a time at most, if I remember
right, and displays even fewer colors at higher resolutions.  Not enough
video RAM, I guess.  That's a real graphic display crippler, but it can
be cured with a rather expensive Second Sight board.  Also, it seems I
heard from someone that there is some kind of a drawback or two to
having more than 6 or 7 MB of RAM, but I don't remember what that is.