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From: sector@pro-exchange.cts.COM (Roby Sherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS+
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Date: 28 Feb 88 13:41:23 GMT
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The GS is a great machine, to those of us who have owned Apples all of our
lives. But let's face it, in today's marketplace, the IIgs is too overpriced
for it's limited ability.. Running the other ][,// software is a great idea,
but I'd like to see an Apple II that started from scratch.. I'd like to see an
Apple II that says "F**K the compatibility!" If you got rid of all those //e
routines in the GS, it would be so much faster. Right now, the GS has to check
to see what screen mode it's in, is it in normal or fast, this and that.. That
is slowing it down! Plus, the tools need to be optomized big time!

Watching the Finder work on the IIgs is like pulling teeth! It is soooo slow!

Now, regarding the Graphics Co-Processors, I COULD live without them, if Apple
at least developed an "Animation" toolset that was extremely fast.. Perhaps it
would turn off a bunch of interrupts, draw an object, and then turn them back
on again.. Right now, the only way to get fast animation on the IIgs, quite
honestly is to not use the quickdraw II tools! Winter and World Games, for
example, are extremely fast and smooth, because they do not use the Quickdraw
II tools! 


Roby Sherman

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