Re: America Online for IIGS???

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Dan Yertzell (Dan-Yertzell@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: On 25 Nov 1997 07:46:31 GMT, ToasterKing <toastjuice@aol.com> wrote:

: >What's this I'm seeing about an America Online client for the Apple
: >IIGS??!  I've seen references to it in a few IIGS publications and
: >program docs, but why have I never heard or seen of it??  I figured it's
: >very possible that a graphical client existed for the GS... after all,

: It existed.  I have it.  It says it's version 1.22 and is dated 1989,
: copyright Quantum Computer Services.  Probably abandoned for the same
: reason every other // software/hardware package was abandoned.  

: The platform died.

I was assuming everyone meant a real IIgs native version of the client. What
Quantum put out for the IIgs back then was the same thing as the 8 bit version,
all lumped into one app and the horrendous standard hires graphics replaced
with mediocre SHR graphice.

There was talk about getting a new version once, but AOL nixed it. They decided
to drop support for Apple II and DOS clients around the time they debuted the
built in web browser. Not terribly hard to understand the how-come of it 
really.
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