Re: New GS owner questions

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

ict@ccess wrote:
> On Mar 16, 10:57 am, Egan Ford <dataj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>>My first question is, “now what?”  Other than a good cleaning (esp.
>>the
>>keyboard) is there any preemptive maintenance I should perform before
>>heavy (or occasional) use?  Anything I should check?  What about a diag
>>disk?
>> I am not interested in any intensive restoration work.
> 
> 
> What are you calling a "diag" disk?  Do you possibly mean defrag?
> 

Probably diagnostics disk.

> 
> 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, 

I used my IIGs with two 3.5 and two 5.25 drives for at least 5 years. I must
say, getting a Focus hard drive really changed things. I can run a lot more
software now.


> 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.

I've been using a 1 MB expansion card in the ROM 3 IIgs all this time. The
only program that I haven't been able to run is Wolfenstein.

> 
> 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.

Then I must be one of the last hold-outs. My IIgs is set up on my main desk
right next to my Mac mini, connected by Ethernet.

It's efficient use of screen space! I don't have to switch between an
emulator and another program.

Now of course, I do use the Sweet16 emulator when I need speed or when I
want to quickly test out a program or see what it is.

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