Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: IIGS and AppleTalk Message-ID: <15916@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 17 May 91 06:54:55 GMT References: <26228.netnews.info.apple@pro-novapple> <52971@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 17 In article <52971@apple.Apple.COM> dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) writes: >In article <26228.netnews.info.apple@pro-novapple> daveharv@pro-novapple.cts.com (Dave Harvey-SysAdmin) writes: >>[...] (answering "What can you do with AppleTalk and just GSs?") >>You can hook up two or more IIGS's together to share one or more printers but >>nothing else. The GS's can't communicate with each other if that's what you >GSs *can* talk to each other, but there isn't much software around taking >advantage of it. The only one I can think of offhand was a preliminary I believe that the GS version of Rescue Raiders ("Armor Alley") will work via AppleTalk. I have no information when (or whether) it will be out, but it was contracted to one of the 'well known' GS software makers... (i.e. one of the few left in the past year or two) -- /unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Apple IIGS Forever! unknown@cats.ucsc.edu\ |WANT to help get ULTIMA VI //e or GS written?-mail me. CHEAP CD info-mail me.| \ It's a Late Night World.... Of Love /