Re: disk transfer methods?

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wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:

>I tend to use my IIgs as a glorified IIe.

That's really too bad.  That is really the IIGS emulating the IIe
(IIe emulation mode).  There is a whole other side to the IIGS.
The true IIGS side.  3200 color graphics, 32-channel sound,
4096 color palette, fill mode, basically "G" and "S."  This was
after all what Apple created with the Atari 520ST and Amiga
1000 in mind (I collected some of the magazines covering
the IIGS' release with interviews from the IIGS design team
and those two units were the reference units).  This was the
computer that the Apple II Video Overlay Card was designed
in mind (yes, you could use the card with a IIe, but the REAL
genlock software worked with the IIGS in mind).  This was
the first personal computer with wavetable synthesis.  So
many "it can't be done" predictions were smashed with this
unit, the IIGS.  It is quite a computer.

The IIGS side is cool!  I don't have anything against the IIe,
just that the IIGS should be appreciated as its own computer
too rather than the mode that was used for backward
compatibility only.  That would be like judging PowerMacs
only by running 68k Mac software.