Re: Pleasantly Surprised By Defender of the Crown (IIgs)

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

mdj wrote:
> It's unfortunate... An artifact (primarily) of the IIgs's lack of
> hardware graphics acceleration, which meant considerable extra
> programming effort to achieve acceptable results.
>
> The fact is, the Amiga and Atari ST platforms were superior to the IIgs
> in almost every way, except for sound reproduction and Apple II
> compatibility.
>
> Things might've turned out a little better had Apple committed
> themselves to improving the platform. As any IIgs user knows, you need
> both an accelerator and RAM card to get decent capability out of the
> IIgs, although equipped with both those items, it was a better and
> cheaper machine than the Macintoshes of the day.
>
> I guess I'm one of those Apple II fans who isn't a IIGS fan... But
> everyone favours one of the 'platforms'.. For me, it's the 128k+
> Enhanced IIe or IIc. For others it's the original Apple II...

I have the same preference.

I've always felt that the IIgs, and particularly GSOS, were a giant
step away from the open, easy hackability of the II, which was nicely
improved in the //e.  Put another way, the documentation required to
fully understand and program the IIgs weighs more than the computer,
unlike the //e.  ;-)

-michael

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