Apple II gs the best Apple computer ever.

[foody]

I heartily believe that Apple II gs is the best and most superior Apple computer ever. It is not only the coolest Apple computer but extremely fun, enjoyable and powerful, had Apple not destroyed it and moved to Macintosh I would have owned the latest Apple II line right now. I think Apple II gs would have kicked Macintosh on the butt easily, I believe if Apple kept the line of Apple II as we speak with more advanced and powerful Apple II line like the GS we would have the iMac and mini Mac, etc all those would be replaced with iApple, mini Apple, etc instead while still maintaining backward compatibility. * sigh *

Right now I am owner of an Apple II gs and I am spending some cash upgrading it, providing it with hard drive, etc. Does anyone here have any advice of how else I can inject further stereod and benefit of it for todays daily usage? Thanks in advance.

 

[chris]

Quite possibly. Just got one and it seems to be much better than the early Macs.

Sadly selling new computers that are backwards compatible with old ones has not been a good tactic for non-PCs, and definitely not at that period.

 

[Kallikak]

What do you like better about it?

I have only made very little use of the IIgs, but I find it a bit of a strange beast. I would like to play more though.

But remember, it wasn't released until late 1986, less than 6 months before the Mac II arrived. I'd need some convincing that a 2.8MHz 65816, 16bit machine is better than a 16MHz 68020 + 68881 Mac II.

Of course it was 4 or 5 times cheaper!

 

[Unknown_K]

I like my IIgs, it is the only Apple product I play games on. While I don't think it was as good as an Amiga, it was a decent system to play games on and had very good sound.

 

[foody]

I am a proud owner of an Amiga 1200 @ 68060 using 64 Mb of RAM running on with 4 GB HD.

 

[MacMan]

Wish I had a IIgs...

 

[foody]

@MacMan

It is a great toy the Apple II gs, MacMan. It really is.

 

[macdownunder]

What do you like better about it?


But remember, it wasn't released until late 1986, less than 6 months before the Mac II arrived. I'd need some convincing that a 2.8MHz 65816, 16bit machine is better than a 16MHz 68020 + 68881 Mac II.

Of course it was 4 or 5 times cheaper!

Yes, it was cheaper.

It was also a colour machine and had decent sound capabilities, and with GSOS 6.0 (at least) appeared faster to me in real world application.

I used mine to write my honours thesis in 1987 (including statistic and graphing - which I wrote my own application to do), and continued with it in post graduate research.

Mine is now a hot rod with a transwarp card etc, etc - but i just don't get enough time to play with it these days.

It certainly would be interesting to see what would have happened if Apple could have used the lessons of today back then with respect to transitioning between platforms.

Apple have since moved from 68k to PPC, from NuBus to PCI, from serial and ADB to USB, from SCSI to Firewire and IDE and now from PPC to Intel with much less fuss than the move from 6502-like to 68K back then.

Regards,

Macdownunder.

 

[Quadraman]

I like the IIgs better than any 68000 based Mac. You can't compare it to an 020 or 030 model, though.

 

[blakespot]

Photos of my IIgs setup for those interested:

http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/apple_IIgs/

It's a great machine.

blakespot

 

[aftermac]

Photos of my IIgs setup for those interested:
http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/apple_IIgs/

It's a great machine.

That's pretty sweet... I've got 3 IIgs', but I haven't done much of anything with them.

 

[chris]

Gyah! Why not? They're awesome.

If I could only find out how to make those damned .2mg files work on a real gs...

 

[david__schmidt]

If I could only find out how to make those damned .2mg files work on a real gs...

They're byte-for-byte images of 3.5" diskettes with a (typically) 64 byte header tacked on to them. You'd need to get them written back to a physical floppy either by:

• 1) Sending the 2img file to the IIgs via a telecomms package, then using a program called Asimov (

http://www.ninjaforce.com/html/products.html)
2) Having a program like ADTPro that directly transmits to and writes the disk on the IIgs (http://adtpro.sourceforge.net)

 

[MacMan]

Photos of my IIgs setup for those interested:
http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/apple_IIgs/

It's a great machine.

That just makes me want one even more now!

 

[aftermac]

You know chris, that's a pretty good question.

I really don't know. I've had them for almost 10 years. I've used my IIe quite a bit. I have a large box of software that hopefully works. I'm in the process of organizing my collection, so maybe after I finish with the Mac's I'll pull out the IIgs'.

 

[chris]

No chance of you shipping me one of the 3.5 floppy drives from one? I only have one and it drives me nu- *swap* *swap* *swap* *swap* *swap* *swap* *swap* *swap* ts.

 

[aftermac]

HA! Couldn't tell you... I'm not even sure how many I have. I need to go through a few boxes of stuff. If I have 4 or less probably not. I have 3 IIgs', as well as 3 Pluses and a 512ke that the 800k drives work with, so I like to keep some around.

 

[chris]

Nevermind, acquired one from somewhere else.

 

[Mr. 680x0]

/me cries about how his IIgs Woz Edition's case is destroyed



Found it in the scrap pile at the dump. The motherboard and dented up power supply still work though.