Re: in my dreams

["Steve Mentzer" <steve@crackershack.com>]

> KEGS32 and/or XGS32 would both emulate a lance GS card via via windows
> network drivers the way Baislisk II does for Mac emulation

The source code is available.  Have at it.

>
> KEGS32 and/or XGS32 would allow mounting devices attached to PC scsi via
> ASPI, the way basilisk II does.


The source code is available.  Have at it.


>
> someone would make a usb device that allow you to plug in 800K and 5.25
> smartport drives. There would be drivers for both wintel and mac
> platforms.
>


Someone has already produced an ISA based card to do just that. I tried to
contact the authors about writing a Win2k/WinNT device driver for XGS, but I
never got a response. One of the many reasons why I gave up on XGS.


> Kegs and/or XGS would have a way to customize the slots of the emultaor
> and have a library of poular board emulations to plug in - Mockingboard
> C, Thunderclock, 1MB apple II ram card, Grappletr plus (but may it'll
> output PCL instead of epson 9 pin codes? That'd rock!)
>

I don't understand why this is needed. IIgs emulators are IIgs emulators.
Why emulate apple II era devices? All IIgs software that you would want to
run doesn't benefit from the use of these devices.


> someone would come up with an "ethertalk" driver for the lance gs card -
> so I can network it to my macs/PC's without a localtalk bridge.
>

It would be even nicer if someone would come up with a standard TCP/IP
netbios driver for the IIgs. AppleTalk is a pain to deal with in a mac-less
environment.


> Someone would upload the mythical ROM4 mark twain rom so we can use it
> in our emu's (if it really exists  - I once heard that MT actually had
> an 03 rom)
>

For what benefit?

> and, of course - SOMEONE (SSH maybe?) would make transwrap GS's again!!!
> and the apple superdrive controller!!!!!

Are you willing to pay $1000 for it? After design, layout, material and
production, that is propably what each unit will cost. Unfortunately, we
don't have a userbase that can support 20k unit sales!