Re: What Apple II comp is best?

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

In article guenter@student.uni-kl.de (Marvin) writes...

>Why not buying a IIgs? It will allow you to run all the Apple II+ and IIe
>software plus the native 16 bit software with colorful graphics and fantastic
>sound. You can compare this machine with an Atari ST 

    I've personally always felt it's closer to the Amiga, or perhaps 
somewhere inbetween the two. If I had to describe the Apple IIgs, I'd 
call it a Macintosh/Apple II hybrid, with Amiga-like features. 

>or a small PC with EGA graphics and the games which you can play on it will 
>blow your socks off! 

    I'd quicker compare IIgs graphics with standard PC VGA.  It does,
afterall, have limited 8-bit color capabilities in the 320x200 mode.
It makes up for this limitation with small, round pixels, while on the
PC pixels in this mode are large and square (blocky). :) 

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca