![]() ![]() It had a lot of graphic modes : All modes used a 12-bit palette for 4096 colors. The Macintosh works around this by using software-based synthesis. Even today, the Macintosh does not have hardware synthesizers. Apple never again put a synthesizer chip in any computer. The Ensoniq chip in the Apple IIGS was a brilliant move by Apple, but it drew a lawsuit from Apple Records, the Beatles' record label. Prototypes leaked out and a user group that has one and wrote a series of articles about it. It had an 8Mhz 65C816, a built in SuperDrive, 2MB on the motherboard, and a hard drive. In one final gasp, the Apple II supporters at Apple designed the Apple IIGS Plus, code named "Mark Twain". The Apple IIGS disappeared from the market in 1992. If the computer had been introduced a year or two earlier, things might have been different. ![]() The total number of advertisements and commercials for the IIGS could probably be counted on one hand. Sadly, Apple wanted Macintosh to be its future. Sales were strong initially and the IIGS even outsold the black and white Macintosh units that were its contemporary. It was (and still is) a quantum leap for the Apple II line. The Apple IIGS was designed in response to the Amiga 1000 and Atari 520ST computers & could be considered a cross between the Macintosh & Apple II (naturally, it can't use Macintosh programs). ![]()
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