Re: LC & other A2 slotted Macs

[JB <jbcole@ix.netcom.com>]

Randy Shackelford wrote:
> 
> In article <57hn52$djq@amanda.dorsai.org>,
> James OReilly <joreilly@dorsai.org> wrote:
> >
> >I know that the Mac LC I, II, and III have a slot for an Apple IIe card.
> >I've heard that there are other LC models numbered 500.  Do they also
> >have Apple IIe slots?  I've also heard that there are Quadra or Performa
> >models which support an Apple II card.  Does anyone know which Macs will
> >run as Apple IIs (other than Macs running Deja II or GUS)?
> 
> Gee I wouldn't use this as a selling point for getting a Mac since boxes with
> the LC style slot which can use the //e card (hard to find to begin with),with
> the exception of the Performa 575-578, are all '030 based. Which means rather
> pokey running Mac software. At any rate, you can use the card in the Performa
> and LC 550 and 575 and Color Classic as well as the pizza box style LCs and
> their Performa 400 series equivalents.
> 
> Deja II is only an Appleworks emulator, which doesn't qualify it as a II
> emulator in my opinion. Gus is vaporous so it doesn't count either. IIe is
> the best emulator going now. It is PPC native and runs on 68Ks too. I ran some
> games with it on my new Q840AV (40 mHz '040) and it seems to run them nearly
> as fast as a real IIgs in fast mode. I'd like to see the native version on a
> Pmac, I bet it's really fast. So I'd get the newest/fastest Mac I could afford
> and use IIe on it to run II Programs.
> --
> Randy Shackelford
> shack@frii.com


I agree IIe is the best.  But Gus is real.  In fact there is a version
posted on the web (illegally I might add.)

If you know where to look for it.

JB