This site is dedicated to the preservation of the Apple IIGS computing platform. It is hoped that one day this archive will feature a complete library of Apple IIGS applications, games, educational software, hardware references, drivers and publications.

Such was the importance of the development of this program for the IIGS that Claris, a spin off company from Apple that developed the original Appleworks and was also responsible for key Mac applications (MacPaint, MacDraw, MacWrite, etc), stepped in and bought Styleware outright and its employees ended up moving to Claris' offices.

If you can connect to a IIGS via null modem cable or Ethernet (with the LANceGS or Uthernet cards on the IIGS) you can use ADT Pro, a utility involving software that runs on both your PC and Apple IIGS concurrently, effectively opening a channel of communication between the two that includes file copying.

System Extensions or 'Create Your Killer GS/OS Environment!' Posted by Alex Lee on 22 March 2011 | 70 Comments Tags: Apple IIGS, System Extensions, NDAs, CDAs, CDEVs, INITs, Finder Extras, GS/OS, GSOS, System Add-ons, Enhancing, System 3, System 4, System 5, System 6 Using system extensions is much like a juggling or balancing act - while there are many great …

Covering the 8-bit Apple II would require an effort ten times that of which is already required to produce a book dedicated to IIGS specific products. 2) Too text heavy. As a coffee table book, text will be kept to a minimum with only introductions being made to different facets of the IIGS. The pictures will speak louder than words.

The Perfect GS/OS Desktop Picture or How to Get the Most of the 640 x 200 Super Hi-res mode Posted by Alex Lee on 20 December 2010 | 3588 Comments Tags: Desktop Image, GSOS, DeskMaker, Desktop, Apple IIGS, GS/OS, Let's face facts: the 640 x 200 pixel super hi-res graphics mode is as Woz-like ingenious as it is frustrating.

Tomahawk, was already a helicopter-based game from DataSoft in the form of an 8-bit version for the Apple IIe and IIc. Tomahawk for the IIGS plays more like a flight simulator compared to its 8-bit bit cousin and is in fact the only flight sim ever released for the IIGS platform. The game is played with both the mouse and keyboard or joystick.

Task Force is a classic IIGS only game, the last original game from Visual Concepts duo Scott Patterson as programmer and Matt Crysdale as graphic artist released in 1990. While gameplay seems as far removed from reality as possible, it's fun nonetheless. It's based on the arcade game NARC including cops, gangs, guns and rocket launchers.

Now, onto the bad news. What is the Apple IIGS?, in its third incarnation, has been runnnig for 12 years now and some of its dependencies are no longer supported in a near future server update. So the site is going to go static while we update to newer versions of back end things and fix what's going to break before going live again.

The best feature of the FloppyEmu for me is its 800k disk mode for use on the Apple IIGS. The CFFA3000 only supports 800k disk images (or any other disk image size bigger or smaller) via the Smart Port. 9 times out of 10, this works great.