Re: Apple IIGS ROM 1 or ROM 3, which is better?

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Jul 2, 10:16 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:

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>
> A Google Groups search on this topic will turn up several discussions,
> one of them (a year or two ago) pretty definitive.

yes, I think that was me ranting last year too....  ;-)

>
> Bottom line, go for the ROM 3 upgrade.
>
> Then you can put the ROM 01 into your //e--though for my money, that's
> a *downgrade* (I prefer the //e to the IIgs ;-).

which is what I did, but I only hacked the machine in which the //e
board was dead. And I had exhausted my skills at repairing it - which
I might add are fairly minimal. But I determined that whatever was
wrong with my //e board was not a dead chip, because I replaced
*every* single chip from a known good board and got the same results.
I therefore gave up, and then went ahead with the //e -> IIgs
conversion.

I still love my //e (yes I have another one), but I ended my
involvement with the Apple II when I retired my //e in 1992 and went
to the dark side and bought a 486. So I never got to play with the
IIgs much (my mate had one, but that doesn't count). Since returning
to the A2 world, I am enjoying exploring the possibilities of the
IIgs, and am quite frankly blown away at how "mature" seeming the
API's etc are within GS/OS. There are scary similarities present
between GS/OS and Windows programming even today. What this indicates
is anyone's guess.....  ;-)

cheers,
-p