Re: [tech] ][c/][gs monitor compatability, long winded

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Christ's Soldiers" <christssoldiers@hotmail.com> wrote

> Anyway the next day I went by the local resale shope to see if I
> could find some 5.25 floppies to use with it. I didn't but I did find
> a complete and fully working IIgs system with both (3.5 and 5.25)
> floppies, keyboard, and a myrid of ascociated cables only no monitor.

> Anyway that an any other usefull info on these fine
> new aquisitions would be appreciated.
>

Those are very good finds. The IIgs is very useful in itself, and for
creating disks for your IIc.

Getting software from your PC to the IIgs can be done, but takes some
effort.  As Ed Eastman says, you can use ADT.  There is a wealth of info in
the faq, which can be found here:

http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html

Another thing that's useful is a mid 90's era Macintosh.  The Mac can make
3.5" disks for the IIgs.  For example, you can download disk images of GS/OS
from Apple's archives, and  make disks for your IIgs using DiskDup+.

There are lots of games available for the IIc and IIgs, and GS-only games.
The faq has info on the archives.
-Paul