Re: substituting ROMs (Re: Illegal Clones)

[Matthew Montchalin <mmontcha@OregonVOS.net>]

On 16 Oct 2002, Michael Black wrote:
|> |Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
|> |
|> |>    1) It was a //c clone.
|>
|> Forgive me for intruding, but along somewhat tangential lines,
|> does anybody have a "Commodore Compatible" replacement ROM for
|> the Apple IIgs?
|>
|> I mean, something with a Commodore Kernal, and something similar
|> to BASIC 2.0?
|>
|> Or do I have to do it myself?
|
|I didn't think anything like that happened, except for hardware
|solutions; was it the Spartan that plugged into a C64 to give it
|Apple II capabilities?

The Spartan was a very strange bird that is quite a collector's item
nowadays; I think it fetches a much higher price now than it ever did
when it first came out.  Unfortunately, it suffered from a high price
when it was first marketed, and reviewers were ordered to torpedo it,
regardless of how valuable it might be as a 'link' between two different
(yet similar) platforms.