Tonyvdb

April 12, 2016

I'm using a GBS 8220 on my Apple IIGS and it does the job well even using an LCD monitor.

April 9, 2016

What about taking a hole punch and making a hole on the other side so a person can use both sides of the disk? I did this all the time when I was a kid and never had an issue.

April 7, 2016

I will add mine to this list also.

My parents bought us an Apple IIe when I was 14 years old, then my younger brother won an Amiga 500 in a cereal box contest in 1986 and we wore the thing out. I then bought myself an Amiga 3000Tower and upgraded that to an Amiga 4000 with a Video Toaster Flyer system that I still have today and it works. I also have an Amiga 2000 and an Apple IIGS that are also functional.

April 4, 2016

so to just give a recap, I would seriously find out these things before you go ahead and purchase.

Make sure it is a rev 6.x motherboard (forgot about that one) earlier versions were somewhat buggy.

Find out what rom chip is installed, You want at least 2.04 or better and ideally 3.1 (for that price it should be 3.1)

Does it include at least one working floppy drive? That is a must.

How much ram is on the A2091 SCSI card? If its empty this also reduces its value.

As mentioned a small SCSI drive can be had cheap on ebay (less then $30) Your gonna need some Workbench disks that match what rom is installed. Ask him to include them.

April 2, 2016

Yes, that's a decent price. Is it yellowed or still fairly white? Not having the Hard drive does mean you'll need to get the OS installed on a drive or you can just use floppies for now. Don't use a drive larger than 4gb unless you plan on using OS 3.9, earlier versions did not like larger drives.

I guess I should also ask, what version rom is installed? You want 3.1 rom as earlier versions won't support an OS higher than the rom version other than 3.1 as it also supports Workbench 3.9.

March 29, 2016

where abouts are you located in Canada?

March 25, 2016

Where is a good source to get disk images for games? Is apple2Online the only one? Some of the images I downloaded did not work. For example Hard Hat Mack or Cannonball Blitz don't load

March 24, 2016

So after going into the control panel on the GS and selecting "normal" for speed it runs like the IIe and so forth but when I power down and restart it goes back to fast is the a way to keep it in normal speed?

March 23, 2016

surprising how long these things have lasted. They still look as good as new and still very pliable even the disk labels are still sticky.

March 23, 2016

Got my hands of two boxes of new old stock 5 1/4" disks, using ADTpro I started to transfer over about 15 disk images from an old PC to my IIGS using the bootstrap method. Testing them out every one worked without error. What is the life expectancy of these old floppies?

March 21, 2016

I sure hope you were one of the people that bought it in the 24 hours after I posted that reply, because if not, you're too late.

Yup, I got the last one

March 21, 2016

If you want to buy a NOS joystick that isn't analog for an Apple II,I'd check out this arcade style one here. http://www.amazon.com/Apple-II-Joystick-Ideal-Vintage-Arcade/dp/B00PNPID60/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&linkCode=ll1&tag=atariage&linkId=3da154ccc5b5cd26b4570227a995684f

This looks like a good one, I will give that a try.

Thanks

March 19, 2016

I see this one listed on eBay http://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-NOS-1983-Wico-APPLE-II-IIe-II-PLUS-ANALOG-Joystick-50-1030-CASE-FRESH-/351455664968?hash=item51d463db48:g:gaUAAOxykMpTINeh

A bit pricy but I already have two wilco joysticks for the Amiga will they work?

March 19, 2016

No sound and the LED did come on for a second. A disc goes in all the way so it's almost flush with the face but stops as if it's hitting something. I've tried inserting a paper clip in the little hole on the button still no difference.

March 19, 2016

So I found an old Apple A9M0106 disc drive but it won't take a disk. Is this likely reparable or is it toast. When I power up the GS nothing happens to the drive at all.

March 19, 2016

There are a fair bit of joysticks available for the Apple II series but what is the best one to get that can still be found fairly easy?

March 19, 2016

Oh, that was simple. Thanks

March 19, 2016

So how do I hook up both drives up to the Apple IIGS? I see only one port.

March 19, 2016

Turrican II is a must have, I really like Deluxe Galaga and Deluxe Pacman, Tetrix, Pinball dreams, Lemmings, Morph and the list goes on

March 17, 2016

My kids love playing it

March 17, 2016

Bill has mostly covered what I would have said, I will add that if you go with an a1200 or the A2000 you can buy an Indivision graphics adapter that snaps direcly on the video socket of the Amiga (costs $100 aprox) and you can use any LCD monitor on it See here for the 1200 version: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=1148

and here for the 2000 version: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=918

March 17, 2016

Personally I like games like Hard Hat Mack, Cannonball blitz, Beyond castle wolfinstine, Dino eggs, Santapravia, Ultima, lemonade stand and Super bunny just to name a few.

March 17, 2016

Depends on how much you want to spend, Amiga systems have seen a real hike in prices as of late. The A500 would be your lowest cost but the A1200 being fairly hard to come by run upwards of $500 for a basic unit and for an A4000 your looking at around $700. Do you want AGA or will the standard graphics suffice for you?

Games are a little bit harder to come by as many of the games still have active copy writes going so downloads for some are not free.

March 17, 2016

I just got myself an Apple IIGS for the same reason as yourself. It is fairly much 100% backwards compatible to the older IIE IIC computer games and gives you the ability to play the better GS games written for 16 bit. Its also expandable to include a hard drive and you can run an OS that looks very similar to the first Mac's.