imactheknife
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ok, sweet! will try it tomorrow and see what happens. glad to have a new toy to play with..
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micheledipaola
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A lot of nice new cards popped up lately for the IIGS : ethernet, accelerator + RAM, SCSI replicas, USB connection for HD file emulation, etc etc - if you want to spend a few bucks, just look around and you will find a lot of nice surprises!
magnusfalkirk
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In my opinion, FWIW, one of the best expansions you can buy for the GS is the AppleSqueezer, which you can find here:
www.applesqueezer.com
It is an accelerator and memory expansion in one. It replaces the 65816 chip. It will have your GS running at 14MHz and expand the memory to 14MB. I bought one and am loving it. I recently acquired a second GS system and have both sitting side by side. I booted both of them up, and of course the AppleSqueezer equipped one booted faster. As a real test of the speed difference I ran Mandelbrot II on both systems. After getting to the picture of the Mandelbrot I selected the same area on both to expand (and did it at the same time). The AppleSqueezer GS had the expanded area done while the "Fast" (2.8 MHz) GS was barely about 1/7 of the way into doing the expansion.
Of course I also think the best cards you buy is the CFFA. You can either partition a CF card, like a regular hard drive or, the way I do it, just load several GS hard drive images on the CF card. When you boot the GS just hold down the M key to get into the CFFA control panel. From there go to Smartport assingments and select the disk images you want the CFFA to mount. Make sure the first one you have it mount is an image with GS/OS on it. then have it boot and you'll be at the desktop with all the hard drive images available.
magnus
What is it? | AppleSqueezer GS
www.applesqueezer.com
It is an accelerator and memory expansion in one. It replaces the 65816 chip. It will have your GS running at 14MHz and expand the memory to 14MB. I bought one and am loving it. I recently acquired a second GS system and have both sitting side by side. I booted both of them up, and of course the AppleSqueezer equipped one booted faster. As a real test of the speed difference I ran Mandelbrot II on both systems. After getting to the picture of the Mandelbrot I selected the same area on both to expand (and did it at the same time). The AppleSqueezer GS had the expanded area done while the "Fast" (2.8 MHz) GS was barely about 1/7 of the way into doing the expansion.
Of course I also think the best cards you buy is the CFFA. You can either partition a CF card, like a regular hard drive or, the way I do it, just load several GS hard drive images on the CF card. When you boot the GS just hold down the M key to get into the CFFA control panel. From there go to Smartport assingments and select the disk images you want the CFFA to mount. Make sure the first one you have it mount is an image with GS/OS on it. then have it boot and you'll be at the desktop with all the hard drive images available.
magnus
