I finally took a trip down to Fry’s yesterday afternoon and picked up an adequate Compact Flash card for the CFFA - something I’ve been meaning to do for weeks now. They didn’t really have much of a selection to choose from, but I found a 2GB Kingston card for $15 which does the trick.
This morning I installed the new CF in place of the 16MB evaluation card, created a few 32MB ProDOS partitions and installed GS/OS 6.0.1 on the first. Everything went smoothly, and the machine boots up just fine. A pretty sweet setup all in all! I’d considered going with an Apple High Speed SCSI card, but this is really the superior option - it’s fast, quiet and has plenty of capacity to go around. Plus it’s pretty easy to read/write the CF cards on a modern machine for file transfer.
Yesterday afternoon I purchased a sheet of acrylic from Home Depot and cut a new monitor shield for my Neo Geo arcade machine. What an improvement that makes - it was somewhat tiresome looking through all the carved initials on the old one. I think I’m just about ready to move into the painting phase - I should order up some side art vinyl and a monitor bezel to get ready for that.
Cool, nekonoko. Kind of makes me wish I had the time to get my IIgs out of storage and play with it. I never did (8 years ago) find an Apple SCSI Hard Disk (one that worked) to boot GS/OS from. Last I touched my IIgs it was using two 3.5" Floppy drives, one booting GS/OS, and the other loading Applications. Also, I never did find "Wolfenstein 3D" for it.
Thanks for the comment! Looks like you can get Wolfenstein 3D pretty easily these days - I found a couple sites with IIgs disk images via a Google search. I'll see about loading that on sometime myself.
Yeah, the Apple SCSI cards are extremely expensive, plus you still have to install the SCSI drive in an external enclosure. In addition to CF cards, the CFFA has a standard IDE header for a hard disk, so really gain a lot of flexibility with it. You could probably tuck a laptop style 2.5" disk in the computer's case someplace if desired.
If getting your GS out of storage is difficult and you just want to play around a bit, there's also a GS emulator in Nekoware (KEGS). I'm sure KEGS is easily obtainable for other platforms as well.