What part of the IIgs do you want upgraded?

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Below are responses to the question ...

"What part of the IIgs do you want upgraded?" on Sandy's Upgrade the GS
site ... 




     Any upgrade worth doing is going to mean bunches of changes. We
might as well take care of the things that stand in the way of .... a
useful web browser, super games, etc..


     RAM- expandable in 32MB chunks
     Speed- 40MHz 65C816 or RISC equivalent
     Video- equivalent to current PC standard
     Sound- wavetable sound


     SiFan 


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The main drawbacks of the GS, from the Rom01 version I own, are memory,
speed and drive expansion.

      The speed issue could be resolved in studying how the ZipGS and
TWGS cards accelerated performance and provide a better structured (yet
cheaper costing) card using the latest WDC chip.

      Memory could be readily fixed by creating a card allowing the use
of 72pin memory that is easily available. As 32pin SIMM and cas-ras dram
get more of a pain to find we'd need to look at what has already flooded
the market.

      IDE/SCSI cards have already addressed the issue of expansion quite
well. We need more people trying to develop better products in all of
the above fields.

      Competition, if not meant to undercut another but to increase the
performance of a product, will better the Apple II community in general.


      Ronin Hyde 


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Why not bulid a PCI card that emulates a IIgs, that way it could be used
in a PC or a Mac (Which everyone has at least one of). This would bypass
the need for slowing down anything at all and also take the advantage of
using the computers existing RAM, Video, Ethernet, Hard Drive, and other
things. I think it would just be so much cheaper to make a board like
this. It would still be upgrading the IIgs!! (What I'm talking about is
like a IIe card for the LC, but a IIgs card...) 

      Stephen Hill 

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      The IIGS, with 8 Megs of Ram and a Second Sight Card is a
reasonable box, for sure. We need to get rid of the constraints of the
now woefully oudated QD II tools, the time for a QD II patch is far
behind us, I fear.

      I use a 16Mhz IIGS with Second Sight and 8 Megs of RAM, but I feel
that our systm software, now very outdated, fails us.

      Gimme a new OS, or at least one that can pretend to keep up with
the new OS's of our present day.

      Tim 


 
Rubywand