Re: A Tale of Two Apples

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major) writes...

>Why don't YOU just read my other post and see that I have 4 megs of
>memory in each of my GS's & that I run "native ProDOS 16" software

    That is kind of an oxymoron, ProDOS 16 is not a native Apple IIgs
operating system. It was released as a temporary OS until Apple could
finish a true 16-bit one. As you may or may not know, the core of P16
is 8-bit with a shell around it to communicate with parts of the GS
hardware. This is why it is so very slow and such a cludge.

    The native IIgs operating system is GS/OS, that is fully 16-bit
and replaced ProDOS 16 (which again, was just a quick and dirty hack
Apple wrote, basically it was a modified version of ProDOS 8).

>And for your information--although they serve a need for many people, I
>dislike emulators.  Any kind.  I believe in using the real thing, where
>possible.  So I won't be one of the people using any kind of IIgs
>emulator on a PowerMac.

    True, the real thing is almost always better, though I still very
much like the concept myself. It isn't every day your 486 or Pentium
monitor displays "Welcome to the IIGS", plays a game of Task Force
or outputs MIDIsynth music sequences. :) If platform consoles aren't
your cup of tea, you might want to look at arcade emulators for the
PC and Mac such as MAME 0.29 or System 16. They're very faithful to
the original stand up arcade machines in every sense, and obviously
your not going to have much room to put one of those beasts in your
living room now, are you? :-)

>P.S.  If you are internet connnected with your GS as you say you are,
>why don't you have a *real* email address, as in one that can be
>*replied* to?????

    He apparently posts messages anonymously through a local library,
though if has has any sort of telnet access (which I would assume so)
it would be a simple matter to get an e-mail account at one of the
many Freenets out there. I have one myself in Denver, and plan to
get another in Toronto once I move there (I had a Montreal Freenet
account, but like most things in this city, it went bankrupt and
disappeared after four months).

    All you need to do is fill out the online application and then
print, sign and drop that form in the mail.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca