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Re: LC & other A2 slotted Macs
- Subject: Re: LC & other A2 slotted Macs
- From: jweaks@gamma.is.tcu.edu (Weaks, Joseph)
- Date: 1996/12/04
- Distribution: world
- News-software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.50AXP
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Texas Christian University
- References: <57hn52$djq@amanda.dorsai.org> <57n13p$hud@europa.frii.com>
In article <57n13p$hud@europa.frii.com>, shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford) writes...
>In article <57hn52$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
Tell me about Dega II, is it commercial? Where can I find it? I have an
LCIII. And a PB5300. Which woud I use.