Re: IIGS

[Ruel@ix.netcom.com]

Marvin wrote:
> 
> Ruel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> : How's the II market these days?
> 
> Shrinking. There is still some old stuff for sale, but new products are
> rare. There are some new things, though. Games like LemminGS and the upcoming
> Wolfenstein 3D or Utilities like Music Composer 4.0 or the upcoming GS www
> browser. There is still something alive and we should really give these
> people who still support the IIgs all the moral and financial support we
> can give.
> 
> :  I finally sold out and bought a Mac.
> 
> Shame on you! :) I would recommend you to buy the one or the other piece
> of Apple II software anyway. The upcoming IIgs emulators (GUS,FastEddie)
> allow you to run IIgs software.
> 
> : You know, my IIGS with a 9MHz Zip still seemed to
> : do everything faster...  Of course files were in kb instead of mb,
> : graphics weren't as high resolution, etc. but is it all necessary?  The
> : IIGS could have been so much more than it was...a great computer...:-)
> 
> It *still* is a great computer. It's still fun to find out what the IIgs
> "can't do". I plan to keep my IIgs until the bitter end and beyond.. ;)


GS emulators?  Where?  When? How much?  I'd love to run GS stuff on my
Mac...  Now if we could get those developers to come back...

It's interesting that my Mac seems buggier and more bloated than my GS
ever did, and it had years of software loaded on that 105 meg hard
drive.  I've had my Mac for less than 2 months and I have 2.5 gigs
filled on my 4 gig drive...  Of course I have QuarkXpress, Photoshop,
MicroSoft Office,  etc. that are huge programs and those graphics files
are HUGE...can you say 180 megs?  Unbelievable.