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

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

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>>>>>>> question is, how good is the game compatibility with the IIe card?  Is it
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>>>>>>> about as good as it is on the IIgs or is it worse?
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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
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>>>> I prefer the LC-series pizza box Macs (I use an LC 475), because they
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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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> no keyboard, mouse or monitor
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> I appreciate the offer, but since I'm trying to downsize I'm looking at
> getting either a Color Classic or one of those all-in-one LC 5xx systems.
>  The Color Classic still seems to go for some decent money, but I think
> the LC 5xx systems are cheaper.  Any reason I should go for the CC over a
> LC 5xx if my main goal is to play older Mac games (B&W ones mostly) and
> obviously Apple II games?

So if you already have a system requiring a VGA monitor, a pizza box and a
KVM switch is about as downsized as you can get!  If you don't, then not so
much. 

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon