Subj : Re: Any Apple fans?
To   : esc
From : Spectre
Date : Mon Apr 10 2023 09:54:00

 es> Sweet, I've never seen any of the clones in person, that sounds pretty
 es> cool. I really like my IIgs, it's a pretty awesome early gaming machine.
 es> Mine has an accelerator, sound card, and disk emulator. It's a trip!

The clones I have aren't terribly exciting.  They're pretty much just bog
standard copies.  No extras, like a built in Z80 or anything.  On the other
hand locally at a reasonable price II+ and IIes have become hard to find.
They both came with a variety of cards though so that was something.

The + still has floppies on it.  The IIe gets a "floppulator" floppy emulator
and occasionally shares a MicroDrive Turbo with the IIgs, although I'd like
to lay hand to a rev C or HS SCSI card for it.  The GS usually has the
MicroDrive, a VidHD in it, which I'm not over impressed with, I need to find
another old 3:4 early LCD TV with SCART on it.  Works a charm with no extra
hardware, custom cabling required though.

Always say on the GS, you'll never notice the accelerator until you take it
out.  But there's a lot of stuff that doesn't seem any quicker, even loading
GS/OS.  Sure if you time it it'll be quicker, but doesn't feel it, at least
to me.

Spec


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