Apple 2 GS Startup Sequence

[speewave]

if you have it, try runing Zany Golf on here... now i've never Owned a IIGS, but i've played one, running zany golf, maybe late 90s, but god it was awesome, IMO one of the best mini golf games..., looking back at it now, really took advantage of the iigs

[davvvideos]

that thing is SO noisy!! but pretty cool.better that a PC

[otakumike2006]

Wow an APPLE product that can play games besides chess and Photoshop. ;-)

[kristell9]

This is the oldest computer that you can use to get on the Internet.

[Xozona]

Holy crap...the "power on" noises are SO effing nostalgic

[janmansde3dede]

Is it safe to use to use floppy drives like that ? (have a Amiga 500 with extra drives:P)

[ramadya2226]

the beginning sounds like a gun going off. BOOM!

[marciomoraes70]

Damn... When will we have this boot speed in modern systems??

[GamerMaster2041]

I wish i can see apple 1 boot up.

MAN THERES ONLY 30 OR 50 APPLE 1 COMPUTERS IN THE WORLD

not mentioning that it was first

[mankyman6]

@GamerMaster2041

Originals, probably, but there are websites selling Apple I kits. They even use a lot of the same components.

[lilyaman213]

DAMN! SOOO OLD

[TheDemoniusX]

Great computer! I want one? They are so expensive to own now! however I would love to own one just for the memorabilia I have with it back when I was 12.

[madmax2069]

@TheDemoniusX I picked mine up for $40 USD, You just need to know where to look and when.

[TheDemoniusX]

@madmax2069 perhaps you could help me. If you find one for that price, PM me bro,Thank you for taking the time to tell me!

[kimosaaaabe]

GS used an ensoniq mirage synth chip, better than Amiga Paula but you wouldn't guess from that demo ;-)

[SpeeBeta1]

i think this was actually an Apple 2 Game and the GS included the Apple 2 Sound Chip so it wouldn't make a pretty sound like you should hear from the Ensoniq chip... if you want that look at an FTA Demo

[masmddds]

Better than the Amiga's? I seriously doubt that.

[madmax2069]

@masmddds Some sounds on the amiga sounded like it was from a NES. Most of the music i seen from a Amiga is mod music. some of the Paula's capabilities was far better then the GS sound chip but not all.

[starblazers1969]

My ears! : (

[weirdcast2]

nope

[666joemetal]

flawlessly, on extra high

[hoser4]

umm...it's every bit as fast as the arcade as far as I can tell. What are you talking about?

[harleykman]

Man that sound chip is horrible.

Give me Commodore 64 SID chip or Amiga Paula chip any day.

[SpeeBeta1]

the game is using Apple IIGS Graphics but not sound chip (using Apple II Audio, less memory to load up audio

[Ulrichthehedgehog]

my apple iigs recently commited suicide. well the floppy drives did. I put in a game one day and it made this horrible chainsaw-like noise and killed the drive along with the disk that was in it. I had another drive too but that just suddenly stopped working for reasons I can't tell. now it won't read ANY disk that's put in it. Do you know of any place I can get the drives repaired or do you think I should just get new ones of ebay?

[Stere0123]

new.

[cicciolinos]

Very good

[smartalec1998]

i had a dream that life was a game.......... that included using the toilet was a game

[retrogamer96]

Man, I used to have one of these. I played Donkey Kong and Jungle Hunt all the time.

[Lachlant1984]

I've used an Apple IIGS, but never used one with one of those power supplies. What's the advantage of using that external power supply? Does it allow you to turn on both the computer and the monitor at the same time. If I remember correctly, the monitor and computer both had their own power supplies and connected to seperate power points, the disk drive got their power from the computer, you turned on the monitor seperately.

[eeyk1993]

Can i buy that Apple Computer i have a collection with all old

Computers

Apple 1

MS 1987

and more

[friedrichsacher]

nice "bong"!^^ Bööööp!

[MFamous18]

The IIGS was my first computer..I had everything for it

I wish I would have kept it :(

[hiphopisntacrime]

me too! i loved it!!... i get very nostalgic when i play some of the games i did when i was a kid (rampage, bolderdash... too many to name) i think u can find emulators online

[HipHopEmc339]

I have an Apple //e with the same problem. I just need to get some games for it.

[th3sp0rk]

never seen this comp before. I see that it has 2 floppy drives. couldn't you boot into a os on on and put games and stuff in the other one? or does it just boot to external drives? and is that buzz sound a startup sound or just the electricity?

[cammeloo]

IIgs was a very capable machine with 3200 synchronous color ability (from a 4096 palette) and 15 synchronous voices. Oh, it is its rough startup sound (you can choose the frequency and the volume by control panel). It can boot GSOS (or prodos) with drive A and games with drive B as well as boot 2disk-games (games were bundled with basic OS starter). Check my apple IIGS playlist to make an idea of IIgs capability even in very basic configuration.

[KB1KOI]

If my memory serves me right, the Apple 2 GS was my first computer played on, alongside a windows 3.1 at the library (probably back in 94/95). When I was in third grade (97-98) my class had an Apple with a whole collection of apple games. Pity though later that school year, all the computer were upgraded to Windows 98. Today on the school district network there are only a handful of G3's and G4's In one room, at the high school and a lonely iMac on the other side of the building.

[KB1KOI]

If anybody is wonder about those floppy drives, they use the olf school size of 5.5 inch compared to todays 3.5 inch

[gordotj]

mannn i remembre the buzz sound at start up, ihave one but i don't know where the hell it is

[coondogtheman1234]

a sound wave gordotj or an IIGS system id love to have a sound wave of the sound an apple IIGS makes direct line in recorded and not from a mike

[coondogtheman1234]

OMFG I remember the startup sounds for this computer, it was faster than the apple IIe's can the monitor of the IIGS be used for a game system like a PS2

[djsimple007]

its a standard tube really so the answer is yes, if my entertainment center wasnt so complicated, id hook it up and film it...

[coondogtheman1234]

do you have a game system that you can hook to it like a PS2 or xbox gamecube hell anything that has standard RCA cables on it like a dvd player or a camcorder

[bhtooefr]

There's a few cards on the market to let you use a CompactFlash card as an internal hard drive for the IIGS, FWIW. :)

And, the 3.5" floppy drives are 800k on the GS. :)

[coondogtheman1234]

lol use a 32 gig CF (CompactFlash) card the ones that you can use in video ipods with a special adaptor hahaha, actually a 512 one will be more than enough

[bhtooefr]

IIRC, the biggest one you can use is a 2 GiB card.

[Lachlant1984]

Wow, that's amazing! Do you need to modify the motherboard to install the adaptor, or does it plug into one of the card slots? Can the IIGS address over 2GB of storage? Do you need to remove the top cover of the computer in order to change the memory card once the ataptor's installed?

[coondogtheman1234]

why r u asking me ask the owner of this video (blame youtube's servers your comment showed up in my email)

[Lachlant1984]

That's strange, I was replying to bhtooefr about the maximum storage volume size that can be used with the Apple IIGS, I don't understand why you received my comment, because I clicked the reply link on the comment that bhtooefr posted, I'm very sorry. I don't understand why that happened.

[coondogtheman1234]

blame youtube's servers for that but its ok people make mistakes and no one is perfect, its all good. To try and answer your ? im not really sure of the max file size but 512 mb should be plenty space the programs this machine takes are what 128k file size, well the apple IIe programs are that small maybe the programs for this machine are a little bigger and you could fit a fair amount of them on a 3.5 floppy disc but flash memory is the way to go

[BlastedToast]

Great video for the Apple IIgs! This computer seems to be so noisy, if I had one I'd have to find a way to silence the noise! Now, if there's no external hard drive for the GS/OS, what is that thing on the very right that's part of the computer? How did you touch the light to turn it on? It looks like a hard drive to me. Do you have anything for the Apple IIgs that can use 3 1/2-inch floppy disks?

Anyways, I like this computer. Thanks for posting this!

[djsimple007]

noisy?: well the camera was cheap but it is a lil noisy. on right?: thats the cooling unit/power controller, you can plug up to 4 things into it and 2 plugs are controlled by one switch, 2 by the other. some old Apples turned on with power, whereas new macs have power all the time and you start by pressing the startup key. 3" disks?: I do have the old 400k drives but I havent tried them yet...

glad you enjoyed it! As i get time ill be posting more of my 33+ Apple collection!

[coondogtheman1234]

BlastedToast you could always wire a switch for the internal speaker and have the switch mounted on the outside, a sound on off switch basically

[pokeeto2]

Jeeze, I just realized thats the computer I used in my elementary school days. I never thought it was an Apple II. I had fun playing Oregon Trail, Number Munchers.

[CorporalDanLives]

Hey, the System Saver on the right is supposed to go between the monitor and the CPU!

[djsimple007]

i know! lol but its never on that long and I had space constraints. :( someday when I open a DC Apple museum......

[jacobdallen]

Ms. Pac Man! I need to find that for my Apple IIGS.

[runforit420]

I remember the Lemonade game that came on the Apple at Play disk with the Apple IIc - I used to play that a lot when I was younger. I'm sure that game was old enough that it would have been loaded from cassette tapes.

Thanks for keeping the IIgs and not tossing it to the curb.

[yerboogieman]

that boot up noise brings back some memorys

[DJDigitalMonster]

ahh the good ol' super loud capacitorXtransformer short out noise. longest one i heard was my uncls busted c54 screen. buzzed like that for over ten seconds

O_O

lol when i first heard it it scared the shit out of me XD

[yerboogieman]

mine did that i had to boot to a game but i liked leasure suit larry lol

[djsimple007]

aaaah yes leisure suit larry.. good times =^..^=

[pencilman12]

lol

[BillSchwenke]

Actually, the Atarisoft version of it likely runs under the emulation mode... You do know it has one don't you? The GS is backward compatible. I have it too

[MultimediaJay]

LOL. Never even knew there was a GS version of Ms. Pac Man. The only game I ever played was Bounce It (a breakout clone on 3.5" floppy).

What this site really needs is a demo of GS/OS, one of the non-Macintosh Apple finder desktops. LOL. That would be cool. =)

As for the IIgs, the poor thing never really had a chance, being released after the launch of Macintosh. It's still my favorite Apple II though.  :)