Re: LC & other A2 slotted Macs

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

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.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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