Re: New Apple IIGS owner, up and running!

[kynrek <kynrek@gmail.com>]

On Oct 13, 12:58 pm, Chris Hafner <hafner.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> About two weeks ago I posted here asking for help and guidance. As of
> last night, thanks to the help and guidance that you guys provided, I
> hooked up my null modem cable, ran ADT, bootstrapped my IIGS, and
> began writing disk images. Thank you *very much* for helping get this
> newbie started.
>
> I have to say, bootstrapping and transferring disk images feels almost
> magical. And it's amazing to be able to do something with my IIGS
> other than writing BASIC programs.
>
> Now that I'm up and running, do you guys have any recommendations for
> what I can do to really savor the experience and take advantage of the
> power of the IIGS? I have a ROM 1 machine with 512K of RAM, which is a
> bit disappointing. So far I've been poking around System 4 a bit and
> have played a few older Apple II games, in those cases where I could
> figure out the commands. Next up for tonight will be messing around
> with Claris Works GS and trying to get a few GS games to run, if they
> will with my meager amount of RAM.
>
> Thanks again for helping get me on my feet. So far jumping back into
> Apple IIs has been even more rewarding than I expected.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris Hafner

I am a new Apple IIGS user as well, I got lucky I guess because the
sytem I picked up has 1MB of memory. I ordered the necessary parts to
do the ADT transfering and I can't wait! I ran into the same issue
with Spyhunter and some other games as well. Does oregon trail run in
gs/os or does it just boot straight off the disk?