Re: Building the Modern Apple IIGS

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"desiv" <desiv@attbi.com> wrote:

>True, although, if he intends to use it to run a IIGS emulator and if the
>IIGS emulators do anything better than the actual IIGS (i.e. unthrottled,
>run really fast), you could argue that it is a Modern IIGS.

On emulation, all I can say is: not yet.

IIGS emulation today sucks and it looks like there is not
enough interest to build a truly good IIGS emulator.  Sure
playing Zany Golf might be possible but emulator folks
seem to have no interest making the emulator stable
with real GS/OS programs and providing all the needed
I/Os.

I go back to the same argument as the Mac folks moving
from 68k to PPC.  It is the feel of the computer.  The
modern PC feels a lot more than the modern Mac.  Yes
at one point PCs did not but in recent years, the shift
had turned to graphics, sound, and speed.  The nForce2
IS a GS.  A PCGS.  Or, as I like to think of it, what the
IIGS might have become if it continued to evolve: a
modern IIGS.