The best way to upgrade your IIGS

[Lim <limtc@iname.com>]

Get a PowerMac 603e (100MHz or above), get Bernie to the Rescue 1.3
(Apple IIGS emulation), and transfer all your files to the new Mac.
For each ProDOS disk (like games), make them into individual disk
images. Set Bernie to the Rescue to PowerMode (full screen)

Now, what you have will be a real Apple machine with a IIGS running
at blinding speed. I am using a PowerMac 5500/225, and it is like
running a 100MHz IIGS (games are totally unplayable, but you can slow
it down). DiversiTunes sound like the real thing, and the IIGS works
perfectly.

What do you gain:

- Almost all IIGS applications/demos/games work. Consider it as
  ROM 5 (there is actually a Rom 4 that is not released) machine.
  There is expected to have some compatibility problems.
- New Ultra hires modes (for me, 832x624x millions of colors)
- New IIGS software that uses those new cool features (well, you
  can consider those Mac stuffs as the new software you gain)
- Perfect emulation of Macintosh. :)
- New cool Finder that has better multitasking (than The Manager
  and Switch It). It can launch IIGS and Mac software. 
- 44KHz sound
- Much better monitor - all your IIGS software runs better.

With the latest Bernie to the Rescue 1.3 - when it finally delivers
Wolf 3D and DiversiTune compatibility and real GS quality sound,
running it on a PowerMac gives a much better experience than the
real GS. 

If you are more serious, try this:

- Launch Bernie To The Rescue on startup
- Replace the Mac label with the Apple IIGFS label, remember to add
  a plus (called it Apple IIGS+)
- Change the startup screen to read Welcome to Apple IIGS+.

You can toggle between IIGS mode and Mac emulation mode (you can
always consider IIGS emulating a Mac) using F8.

Thye Chean