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Re: IIGS
Ruel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
: How's the II market these days?
Shrinking. There is still some old stuff for sale, but new products are
rare. There are some new things, though. Games like LemminGS and the upcoming
Wolfenstein 3D or Utilities like Music Composer 4.0 or the upcoming GS www
browser. There is still something alive and we should really give these
people who still support the IIgs all the moral and financial support we
can give.
: I finally sold out and bought a Mac.
Shame on you! :) I would recommend you to buy the one or the other piece
of Apple II software anyway. The upcoming IIgs emulators (GUS,FastEddie)
allow you to run IIgs software.
: You know, my IIGS with a 9MHz Zip still seemed to
: do everything faster... Of course files were in kb instead of mb,
: graphics weren't as high resolution, etc. but is it all necessary? The
: IIGS could have been so much more than it was...a great computer...:-)
It *still* is a great computer. It's still fun to find out what the IIgs
"can't do". I plan to keep my IIgs until the bitter end and beyond.. ;)
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Apple II | = /\ = | infinitum!
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"The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy __
says of the Sirius Cybernetics |\/| /\ |__|| | | |\ |
Corporation product that it is very | ||__||\ | | | | \ |
easy to be blinded to the essential | || || \ \/ | | \|
uselessness of them by the sense of
achievement you get from getting them
to work at all. In other words:
their fundamental design flaws are
completely hidden by their
superficial design flaws."
Need Apple II gs software? Visit ftp.uni-kl.de...
Visit the Vogon hold at http://www.student.uni-kl.de/~guenter/vogon.html
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