Re: Is there a version of Lynx for the Apple II/IIGS?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<Pq-cnZpBl8MUuRCjXTWc3Q@comcast.com>...
> I agree that it's true, we are not the same as those of yesteryear, but
> coming from Atari 8 to PC, back to Apple IIgs and Mac SE, I have to
> also add this. I am totally devoted to Apple II and what it was and is.
> I am working diligently to improve not only the IIgs but the IIc and
> //e and II+. I have 4 projects going at once, 2 of which I work on for
> hours out of each day. I, too, run into the proverbial brick wall when
> I post and ask for advice from the alleged "older, bought mine for
> $1000's group". Yes, I dug mine out of a dumpster because I saw
> some value in it. I didn't even hear of Apple II until a few years ago.
> The first Apple I ever saw was a Mac classic. I had no idea what
> the Apple II's were.

I come from the Apple //e world.

A lot of the computers I've dug up in the past few years - PCs mostly
- were discards.  I prefer having a heap of old machines to having
megs upon megs of emulation software.  Sometimes that's not an option.
 I use emulation because at this time there's no way for me to
transfer stuff back and forth between my real //e and my virtual one. 
Otherwise, I would have taken some of my favorite //e games of yore
and just dumped them onto disks and run them on my own machine (which
I got from a public library).

> I'm not angered, not even perturbed. I consider myself lucky to
> even be able to find an Apple II, surprised even. Thank God the
> thrift shops saw them as something worth keeping long enough
> for someone to find them. They could have well thought of them
> as junk, but they didn't. More people have them than I even dreamed
> would at this point.

*g*  Hey, I picked up a 486 PC once for $3 at the Salvation Army
thrift shop near me, just before it closed.

> > For us, the IIGS was a real computer and more than that,
> > we IIGS users actually used our computers as our main
> > PCs for many years.  To do word processing, play games,
> > go online, do work, do school, everything.  

AOL!!

> > And, being "premium" computer users we were even more
> > responsible than many of the teenage geeks who use
> > today's PCs in that we actually BOUGHT our software
> > instead of seek out "warez" (I'm not talking about the
> > dying days of the IIGS and the old flame wars but back
> > in the golden days of the IIGS when AWGS was new
> > and InCider and A+ magazines were on the shelves).

Don't ask me. *g* I used a *copy* of Arkanoid Revenge of DOH for
years.  My favorite IIgs game; still, unless my PC were fast enough to
run the arcade version, I can't get the same experience (C64 version,
PC version, MSX2 version, none of these are as close to the Real
Thing(TM) as the IIgs).

> > I only wish I could go back and discover the IIe, IIc and IIgs.

I only wish I could go back and rediscover the IIgs.

> > I mean just look at the reaction to my "MP3 conversion
> > to the IIGS" article a while back.  We old timers
> > shared our tinkering knowledge and experiences and
> > had fun doing it.  Now doing so just attracts criticism
> > from the thrift shop crowd.
> >
> > Talk nothing about monetary gain, even enthusiasm
> > gets shot down these days in the Apple II world.
> 
> It may sound a bit rude, but most of the shooting down
> I receive is from the very enthusiasts of which YOU speak.

It's sad but true.  Even Contiki seems to be shot down by some people
out there, and judging by the C64 version, those guys could be on to
something.

-uso.