Re: My New (Mac) Apple IIe

[Chuckles <Me@here.com>]

carbide@egine.com wrote in

> I have several Color Classics for these reasons- it makes a very
> compact color IIe equipped with a hardisk and 3.5" drive, and eases
> file transfers between PC's/Macs/Apple II's, and 5.25" and 3.5" disks.
> 
> You can also do a couple of mods- slide in the motherbd from a Mac 575
> and you've got 040 cpu performance and you can still use the IIe card
> (set memory to 24 bits).  This make the Color Classic a "Mystic", like
> the Color Classic II which was only available in Japan. (Do a search
> for "Color Classic" and "Mystic" to get the details on this.)
> 
> If you're handy with a soldering iron and dremel tool you can also
> increase the Color Classic screen resolution to VGA. I verified that
> the IIe card still displays correctly afterwards.  (Again, do a search
> for "VGA mod" and "Color Classic" to get the details)

I've seen the info posted on doing the Mystic and VGA mods, but haven't yet 
decided if I'll ever tackle those.  The idea has some appeal, but so far 
I've only cracked open the case to replace a bad internal floppy drive.  I 
may yet give it a try sometime.

> I've tried to find some Mac DOS or Windows emulation software that
> would run on the Mystic, so I could have a Mac/PC/Apple II in one box,
> but haven't so far...

Sounds just like the sort of thing I'd be likely to do.  So far, my best 
"emulator withing an emulator" experiment has been running WinUAE on the PC 
to emulate an Amiga, running Shapeshifter under WinUAE to emulate a Mac, 
and then running some Apple II emulator (whose name I forget) under 
Shapeshifter.  Sometimes you've just got to do something just to see if you 
can, eh?