Actually, 6.0.3 was just released: <a href="http://a2central.com/6499/the-source-awakens-system-6-0-3/" rel="nofollow">http://a2central.com/6499/the-source-awakens-system-6-0-3/</a><p>Exciting times for IIgs hackers!
Google cache: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q2b0VpWmZBQJ:www.callapple.org/software/announcing-apple-iigs-system-6-0-2/+&cd=1" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Q2b0VpW...</a>
My first Apple was a IIgs. We ran a bulletin board system (BBS) on a 2400 bps modem hooked up to a second phone line in the basement. The hard drive was 20 MB and was seriously the size of a large shoebox.<p>Good times on that machine.
Grew up on these, my dad had a couple of em around the house. They were so far ahead of even the Performa machines we had at school in so many ways; it really instilled this notion that what you had to work with in terms of raw materials could sometimes take a second seat to ingenuity and drive. Super great system.
It's awesome to see old machines like this get a little love. The IIgs is obviously very limited in what it can do by today's standards, but these community updates make it that much more usable for what it can do.<p>Now if only a copy of the Classic Mac OS source would kindly surface itself…
If at all possible, please consider building things like this as static websites. It makes them faster, cheaper and much more tolerant to load spikes like this.
I had a friend when I was a kid with a IIgs. They were such cool computers.<p>I dont understand this though.. this is seriously a new release of the OS? That is awesome!
I assume I would need the original hardware for this?<p>My oldest Mac is a 1995 MacBook running 7.6.1, the nicest classic OS I've seen. The battery's long been dead, but the machine still runs on mains power.