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Re: New GS owner questions
On 3/18/12 6:25 PM, ict@ccess wrote:
What are you calling a "diag" disk? Do you possibly mean defrag?
Diagnostics. E.g. on the //e there are a number of diskette that you
can boot that will checkout the system.
Upgrading is not really considered restoration, or looked under a
different light, may-be a sort of restoration, so I don't know how you
feel on spending a little on your IIGS.
I am not opposed to upgrading. What I meant by "intensive restoration"
was cleanup solutions like retrobright or soaking keys, etc...
You can boot a very bare GSOS from an 800 kb floppy but to get any
real joy out of your IIGS, I would suggest at least one of the flash
drives that are available, and I would not settle for a 1 Mb memory
card. Your machine has 1 Mb pre-installed, but a 1.5 Mb and up memory
expansion card is really needed to load a good set of extensions.
Although, you can get away with a 1 Mb memory card as there are some
good extensions that allow you to load other extensions and desk
accessories as you need them, so they don't have to all be in memory
at the same time.
I do plan to get a memory expansion card, as well as some type of HD
solution (e.g. CFFA3000).
Most of us here, I believe, have moved over to the emulator, and only
use the real thing to boot that odd protected game that can not be
played in any emulators. Most, if not all, emulators also have
trouble viewing 3200 color pictures which is best viewed on the real
machine.
> I guess the big questions is, what do you want to do with your IIGS?
My principal interest is software development. I usually develop with
cross-assemblers and test on emulators, but eventually I need to test on
the real thing, esp. if something unique to the HW.
You COULD spend big bucks on eBay to get accelerators, scsi cards,
uthernet, etc, etc
Missed out on Uthernet again. May use PPP to a terminal server.
There may also be another run of CFFA3000and Carte Blanche, so you may
want to let it be known that your interested in one of those cards to
persuade the makers for another run to be made.
On both lists.
Remember, expandability is only directly proportionate to the size of
your wallet.
Exactly. I just picked an iPad 3. I could have had an Apple ///.
So, go crazy, welcome to the club and good find.
Thanks.