Re: Modern A2 successor

["The Meikles" <action1@telusplanet.net>]

Bill designed the avatar which was to be a IIgs clone, but never released
it. As to whether he would allow its use thats something you'd have to
discuss with him. He even discussed it at KF in about 93 I have the tape
here somewhere with his discussion.

Sheane


"Roy and/or Janet Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
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> Burger Bill has a "clean room" GS ROM? I've never heard of that... care to
show
> where you got that information? And does Bill allow people to use it? And
if so,
> for what?
>
> Roy
>
> The Meikles wrote:
>
> > Ah, but you don't need Apples rom as Bill Heineman has already done most
of
> > the work for you in clean rooming his own version.
> >
> > Sheane
> >
> > "Roy and/or Janet Miller" <millers@inetnebr.com> wrote in message
> > 3984FE7D.C4AF2523@inetnebr.com">news:3984FE7D.C4AF2523@inetnebr.com...
> > > **** **** wrote:
> > Since there isn't a 32 bit version of the 6502 family, I'd
> > > chose on the basis of price between a Pentium, PPC, or Alpha. Power,
> > without the
> > > price. Of course, without Apple's permission, the machine is dead,
because
> > you'd
> > > have to have the IIGS ROM, and while I love the 8 bit Apples (I own at
> > least one
> > > of every model except the original II and the black II), without the
> > ability to
> > > run IIGS software I think the machine would be unable to gather enough
> > momentum
> > > to see new software, even on the cottage industry level, which is what
any
> > Apple
> > > II projects can only hope to grow up to be. I don't think any such
machine
> > will
> > > ever come to be, but if I were pushing it, that's the direction it
would
> > go in.
> > > What would Woz do?
> > >
> > > Roy
>