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Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- Subject: Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS
- From: rfisher@zilker.net (Robert Fisher)
- Date: 1996/10/24
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Renegade Software
- References: <5344fe$36v@masters0.news.internex.net> <elisha-0910962208490001@news.dot.net.au> <325C52F2.62CD@sybase.com> <53mcb6$87f@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <53tdik$l77@europa.frii.com> <326BB763.52BF@eccosys.com>
In article <326BB763.52BF@eccosys.com>, David Moles <deivu@eccosys.com> wrote:
>Ah, but think how much a PowerMac 8500 /costs./ :) 'Way back when
>the IIgs first came out Apple had a computer-on-a-chip solution for
>II compatibility -- if I could get either an Apple II board or a
>little Apple II CPU box (say, Pippin-sized) with a half-MB of RAM
>for $200, with floppy drive, I'd snap it up in a second. :) All
>I want it for is to play Bard's Tale and Archon anyway. (Ditto for
>a C64, by the way.)
I -still- think Apple should release a palmtop Apple ][. Wouldn't it be
fabulous to play Crisis Mountain and do a little 6502 asm hacking on a
thing that looked vaguely like a Sega GameGear?
--
Robert Fisher rfisher@zilker.net
Software Developer robert@modeloffice.com
Renegade Software/ModelOffice http://www.modeloffice.com