Re: Building the Modern Apple IIGS

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macvaya@remove.this.mindspring.com (Cali Ruchala) wrote:

>Now, you're going to go from a "classic" GS, last updated
>how many years ago, to a computer running Windows XP with
>an OS X skin, LCD monitor...

Many people in this thread expressed bewilderment at
my project.  Others dug up PC bashing from a Mac
users' perspective.

Basically I am doing this for the same reason that car
fans like to hot-rod their cars.  Because they can and
it is fun.

I have built 4 different PCs of various designs with some
that were modded quite extensively.  But what can
beat the beauty of Apple's case design?

Besides, I have already maxed out a IIGS in its original
case (how does >1GB of hard disk space, a TWGS
that was upgraded and speeded up, a CD-ROM drive,
a Zip drive in an Apple CD150 case, 8MB of RAM,
and a 14.4k external modem, a Mac MIDI controller,
a SuperDrive and a SuperDrive controller, and BOTH
Apple High Speed SCSI and Focus drive controllers
sound?).  I have also built a second IIGS using a
ROM 01 motherboard in a PC Tower case.  So what
is left BUT to do the opposite and stuff a PC into the
IIGS case?

For me, an nForce2 chipset motherboard, an AMD
Athlon XP processor, and the IIGS case combines
several of the things I am a fan of: high speed
chipsets/motherboards, AMD processors, and the
case designs of Apple.

Remember, it is true some IIGS users followed
Apple and are now staunch Mac supporters.  But
there are others like myself who felt burned by
Apple and are now avid PC users.

Mac users can consider us the enemy as Mac
users but I feel that when it comes to the IIGS, it
does NOT matter if we are Mac or PC users.  As
far as it comes to the IIGS, we are all IIGS fans.

Back to topic, I went down to Fry's the other day
to eyeball the Shuttle XPC box.  After examining
the nForce2 motherboard inside, the heatpipe,
and the power supply I am confindent that it will
easily fit inside a IIGS case.