Re: Macintosh Apple IIe Card - How Good Is The Compatibility?

[Kevin <kevin@hackaday.com>]

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> > > > > question is, how good is the game compatibility with the IIe card?  Is it
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> > > > The IIe Card uses the same Mega II chip as does the Apple IIgs.
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> > > Ok then it's pretty good then.  So I guess the Color Classic with a IIe card is the ultimate mini-Apple II then? :)
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> > I prefer the LC-series pizza box Macs (I use an LC 475), because they are smaller and, with the proper video adapter, plugs into my KVM to use a standard VGA monitor.
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> > Of course, other folks prefer the all-in-one Macs, from an aesthetic perspective.
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> Actually the LC 5xx series looks like it also comes as an all in one.  I might have to look into one of those.  Shame they can't run System 6 though, a lot of the older Mac games don't like System 7.

If you live in the states, and want to pay for shipping, I will give you a performa 430 (LC II). I rescued it from the thrift store for a dollar, booted it up once, it seemed to work fine, and its been sitting in the way ever since.

It came with 4 megs of ram and a 120 meg hard disk, I dropped in another 8 megs maxing it out with 10 (though theres 12 in it) but I never checked to see if its actually seeing it, just that it would boot

no keyboard, mouse or monitor