Re: A2 Users: Endanged Species? I think not.

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2) wrote:

>>I've been thinking, there is no reason why a IIGS could not be preserved
>>for posterity.  I'm thinking of finding myself a mint condition one and
>>putting it away.  Perhaps storing it in a humidity and UV controlled
>>case, like a museum piece so that 50 years from now, it'll still be new
>>or nearly so.
>>
>>I already have IIGS units for use and backup, one more for preservation
>>seems to be the thing to do.  Who knows.  Someday, a mint condition
>>IIGS might be worth something not only for collectors, but for
>>research.
>
>Be sure to remove the battery.

Good idea!  I'd imagine by the 20 year mark, the lithium
battery's electrolyte would have leaked and destroyed
the motherboard!

A ROM 3 would be an ideal model for preservation, then,
since the battery isn't soldered.

>>It actually depends, believe it or not.  I know a couple of 12-year
>>olds who prefer Out of This World on the IIGS to Doom on the
>>PC.
>
>Out of this World?  Never heard of it.  2-D, 3-D, text
>or something else?

Out of this World was a 2-D game composed totally of
polygons.  Pretty neat stuff and interesting story too.
A combination of arcade and adventure game.  The
polygonal graphics are similar to those seen in flight
sims such as Falcon 3.0 or Su-27 Flanker.  It was quite
possible the best game ever written for the IIGS and
one of the last major ones from a big publisher
(Interplay in 1995).