Re: The New IIGS whats your thoughts?

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Simon Williams wrote:
|> I think that will never happen for the Apple IIgs.  It seems that
|> while we may have people who would be technically capable of
|> building such a thing, either none of our electronics wizards has
|> Jeri Ellsworth's desire to grow the platform, or they feel that
|> there would not be enough of a consumer base to make it worthwhile.
|
|Yes, the c64 seems to inspire more intense development than the
|Apple 2 for some reason...

Because there is virtually no legal barrier to that kind of development,
the C-64 patents having mostly expired (the year 2003 being a magical
year for that sort of thing) and the trademark symbol up for general
appropriation (no need to pay a licensing fee), the current user thereof
being a foreign corporation not interested in defending it, and the
value of the copyrights having become negligible and not just nominal.

|I wonder if there is a fundamental difference in the kind of people
|working in each group, or if it is more to do with the nature of the
|platform.

I wonder what ever happened to the folks behind the Spartan computer,
a Commodore/Apple hybrid of sorts?  Most of them must have gone on
to bigger and better things, but then again...

|Personally, I'd like to see a "super IIe" rather than a new GS...

Be sure to include a TALK/LISTEN negotiator so we can use all of
those Commodore disk drives, too.

|that's mainly becuse I just find the GS a bit too complicated for
|casual tinkering. I'd go for a modestly quick processor (60Mhz would do)
|with ProDOS updated to support larger volumes and better graphics and
|audio built in to Applesoft and direct access to more RAM without having
|to do any bank-switching... okay?

hm

|Let me know when it's ready... ;-)

Will do.

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