Re: Is there a version of Lynx for the Apple II/IIGS?

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote in message news:<20030404042901.08226.00000119@mb-cn.aol.com>...
> There is nothing wrong with finding a rare item at such outlets.
> I myself got my AMD K6-III+ chips at a surplus outlet because
> I recognized their potential.  A K6 chip with 256k on-die full
> speed cache that clocks to 616Mhz is something special and
> something that some users discovered when AMD got rid of
> these.

You lucked out.  Best thing I found in a thrift shop was a 486SX/25
PC.  Best thing I found elsewhere was a discarded 486SX/33 (!) PC.

> It is not users like you I am referring to.  You have obviously
> took the time to learn all about the IIGS and are using it
> to the full potential of the machine.  I would do the same
> if I found an Amiga or Atari ST at a thrift shop or surplus
> store.
> 
> You do so because of your own experience as an Atari
> user.  I would do so with an Atari because of my Apple II
> and IIGS experience.
> 
> We are the same.

I did so with the PC because of my //e and IIgs experience *g*

> I want to clarify the type of user I am talking about and
> those users are not like us.  Look up my old csa2 posts
> a few years back.  You will see that there is one big
> post that is loaded with info for the newbie user that I
> would post every time I found one.  Like your efforts to
> develop a scan-doubler for the IIGS, I was trying to give
> new users a resource with which to explore the IIGS
> with.
> 
> However, I was attacked more than a few times by users.
> Some were Mac users who just collected the IIGS who
> actively tried to derail my efforts by telling the new users
> NOT to buy products from IIGS innovators at the links
> I had listed.
> 
> That's the same as if you were to develop the scan-
> doubler and I were to refer someone to you when they
> ask the ever-present "VGA to IIGS" question and then
> some Mac user who sunk $2000 into his Mac but who
> bought his IIGS from a thrift shop as a fixture reply to
> my post by saying "$25 for a scan-doubler for a dead
> computer, that's stupid."

I've seen it.  Troll attacks.  The IIgs is only dead when nobody uses
it anymore *g*  I wish there were something like the C1 that aimed to
create a IIgs clone, with 20MHz CPU and 14MB RAM, it can't be too much
harder than the C1...

> I have encountered this type of mentality from those
> latter Apple II users one too many times so I got tired
> of it and left the csa2 completely.

Do they even use the boxes at all?  Wouldn't they just be gathering
dust in some closet?
 
> The Apple II wasn't very PC hardware compatible but
> neither was the C64.  The Amiga and Atari ST I know
> were more PC compatible because they used MFM
> floppy drives.

What's more, ST disks were FAT12 formatted, just like those on the PC.
 (So were MSX disks, and MSX disks were even more compatible.)

> A lot of the old-timer group are bitter but I absolutely
> do not agree with them when they start attacking
> new users who are enthusiastic.  I do not agree
> when they try to squelch such enthusiam from their
> own bitterness.

(cf. gslynx?)

-uso.