Re: What is the quintessential Apple II?

["Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com>]

I actually have alot of trouble running Apple II software on my IIGS.
True it's mostly pirated and cracked games that give me trouble, but I
still find myself having the need to have both my IIGS and IIe hooked
up.



On Jan 8, 10:54 pm, "Charlie" <charlieD...@verEYEzon.net> wrote:
> "N.N. Thayer" <nntha...@hotmail.com> wrote in message1168284528.499248.245960@q40g2000cwq.googlegroups.com">news:1168284528.499248.245960@q40g2000cwq.googlegroups.com...
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> >I ran across a photo set of someone's platinum IIe, and they had
> > referred to it as "the quintessential Apple II."  The platinum //e
> > epitomizes Wozniak's creed of chip reduction - it has the fewest chips
> > of any Apple II, although some of them are custom, not-off-the-shelf
> > units.  It has a built-in numeric keypad, which some might say the II
> > should've had from the start, but at the same time, not everyone used
> > their computers for programming or heavy data input, and it raised
> > production costs (granted, not so much by 1987, when Apple had
> > economies of scale).  Seems to me the chief idea behind the II was to
> > build as you like.  The platinum IIe was also introduced during the
> > latter half of the II line's life cycle.
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> > Personally I think the Apple II+, while not the seller in sheer numbers
> > that the IIe was, fits the bill a little better.  It came at the height
> > of Apple's influence over the computer industry as a whole, not just in
> > educational or desktop publishing markets.  According to Woz, from
> > 1980-1982 it was the best-selling personal computer worldwide; games
> > and many apps were written first and foremost for the Apple II
> > platform.  Any microcomputer mag from that period reinforces this,
> > especially Computer Gaming World.  It had the basics that you'd expect
> > from a modern II - Autostart, the full color palette in hi-res, plus
> > plenty of ways to bring it close to IIe-level functionality if you
> > wanted to.
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> > Discuss!  It's a fun exploratory question if nothing else, I'm sure we
> > all have different criteria.This probably isn't going to sit well with many here but I believe the Apple
> IIgs is the quintessential Apple II because it is more compatible, both in
> hardware and software, with all the other models than any of them are with
> the all the others.
> 
> Charlie