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LorKorub

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« on: 11 January 2003, 17:29 »
I was just reminescing (sp?) about my first *real* PC I ever had in my life, and was just wondering if anyone else had one of these boxes. From what I remember, they were "the poor man's Mac" back in the day, and they had a kick-ass sound chip at the time. They didn't have a Hard Drive, and the CD-ROM support was kind of limited. Decent graphics though. I remember playing this game called Tass Times in Tonetown when I was a kid.

Anyone know anything about these things? I am interested to know what OS they came with, and/or if anyone tweaked one of these boxes to do some cool stuff.  I saw one on E-Bay for $.02 yesterday, and I am wondering if I should splurge to relive some memories.
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« Reply #1 on: 19 January 2003, 18:09 »
Since when have apples not been apples!!!

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« Reply #2 on: 19 January 2003, 19:17 »
www.emulation.net has some IIGS relevant stuff, including where you can download the IIGS desktop envirinment which mimiced the Mac.

You can also d-load Wolfenstine 3d for the IIGS.
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« Reply #3 on: 20 January 2003, 00:33 »
A computer for 2 cents? now that's weird

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« Reply #4 on: 21 January 2003, 13:49 »
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« Reply #5 on: 23 January 2003, 01:13 »
The IIgs was a great piece of hardware, especially the Woz edition.

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« Reply #6 on: 23 January 2003, 03:48 »
I've got a II GS sitting in the guest room; I got it off eBay a couple of years ago.  It can run the Apple II family of OS's (DOS 3.3, ProDOS) and GS-OS, which is, if I'm not mistaken, something between ProDOS and early Mac OS (though more like ProDOS).  I regret to say I haven't really played with it nearly as much as I'd like to have, though.

LorKorub

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« Reply #7 on: 25 January 2003, 15:53 »
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I've got a II GS sitting in the guest room; I got it off eBay a couple of years ago. It can run the Apple II family of OS's (DOS 3.3, ProDOS) and GS-OS, which is, if I'm not mistaken, something between ProDOS and early Mac OS (though more like ProDOS). I regret to say I haven't really played with it nearly as much as I'd like to have, though.  


Thank you...

 
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Since when have apples not been apples!!!

Wrong theread.. Mor-ON!  


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I was very young when I had the ][GS, but I remember running a few commmands....actually, only one command.  If you had to launch something, you had to BRUN [FILE]. Not sure what OS that is, though.

I do remember one thing, we had the 'Woz' signed "limited edition" ][GS.  My dad took the original back to wherever he bought it from, claimed it was "broke" then we had the 'Woz.'
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« Reply #8 on: 25 January 2003, 19:10 »
I started in a IIe