Re: What is the quintessential Apple II?

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

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> I actually have alot of trouble running Apple II software on my IIGS.
> True it's mostly pirated and cracked games that give me trouble, but I
> still find myself having the need to have both my IIGS and IIe hooked
> up.

I have found very little Apple II software that won't run on a IIgs and 
usually what doesn't run there won't run on an enhanced IIe or a IIc either. 
But I bet you'd have more trouble running IIgs software on any other II. 
<grin>

Charlie

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> On Jan 8, 10:54 pm, "Charlie" <charlieD...@verEYEzon.net> wrote:
>> "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote in 
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>> >I ran across a photo set of someone's platinum IIe, and they had
>> > referred to it as "the quintessential Apple II."  The platinum //e
>> > epitomizes Wozniak's creed of chip reduction - it has the fewest chips
>> > of any Apple II, although some of them are custom, not-off-the-shelf
>> > units.  It has a built-in numeric keypad, which some might say the II
>> > should've had from the start, but at the same time, not everyone used
>> > their computers for programming or heavy data input, and it raised
>> > production costs (granted, not so much by 1987, when Apple had
>> > economies of scale).  Seems to me the chief idea behind the II was to
>> > build as you like.  The platinum IIe was also introduced during the
>> > latter half of the II line's life cycle.
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>> > Personally I think the Apple II+, while not the seller in sheer numbers
>> > that the IIe was, fits the bill a little better.  It came at the height
>> > of Apple's influence over the computer industry as a whole, not just in
>> > educational or desktop publishing markets.  According to Woz, from
>> > 1980-1982 it was the best-selling personal computer worldwide; games
>> > and many apps were written first and foremost for the Apple II
>> > platform.  Any microcomputer mag from that period reinforces this,
>> > especially Computer Gaming World.  It had the basics that you'd expect
>> > from a modern II - Autostart, the full color palette in hi-res, plus
>> > plenty of ways to bring it close to IIe-level functionality if you
>> > wanted to.
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>> > Discuss!  It's a fun exploratory question if nothing else, I'm sure we
>> > all have different criteria.This probably isn't going to sit well with 
>> > many here but I believe the Apple
>> IIgs is the quintessential Apple II because it is more compatible, both 
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>> hardware and software, with all the other models than any of them are 
>> with
>> the all the others.
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>> Charlie
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