Re: Apple IIGS ROM 1 or ROM 3, which is better?

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Jul 2, 10:27 am, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 2, 9:17 am, magnusfalkirk <dean.pha...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Greetings,
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> > I'm trying to decide whether or not I should swap out the motherboard
> > in my IIGS. It's currently a ROM 1 but I've got a ROM 3 motherboard
> > that I bought from Ebay. In fact I bought the motherboard before I
> > bought the IIGS, also from Ebay, thinking I might be able to upgrade
> > my IIe to a IIGS by installing the IIGS motherboard. Since the
> > motherboard turned out to be a ROM 3 that option went out the window.
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> > So now my question is would it make sense to upgrade my IIGS with the
> > ROM 3 motherboard? What are the advantages and disadvantages? The fist
> > advantage that comes to my mind is the 1 meg of ram, and 256k ROM,
> > that are part of the ROM 3 board.
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> > Any and all comments and advice from this community are more than
> > welcome.
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> > Thanks in advance,
> > Dean
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> Dean,
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> I think I've mentioned this before, but I'll say it again.  :-)
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> Basically, the ROM01 offers the best compatibility as there were a few
> (not many) programs that made use of certain features (read "bugs")
> found within a ROM01 IIgs. These programs were mostly games, and there
> were many that fell into this category.

I beg pardon - I meant to say "and there were *not* many that fell
into this category."

That's what you get for ranting too much.  ;-)

cheers,
-p