What is the Apple IIGS?

Stream this archive to a real Apple IIGS

Every downloadable title here can be mounted directly over the network by an Apple II with a CoGS card, or a card running the CoGS engine. The card fetches disk blocks on demand over HTTPS, so a real IIGS boots software from this archive the way it once booted floppies, without a single disk image copied by hand.

  1. Get a card. CoGS is a co-processor and network card for any slotted Apple II. The same network engine is being brought to other A2Pico-based cards.
  2. Point it at the catalog. In the card's built-in config menu (press C at boot), open Image Source and enter this site's streaming index, or use S)can to find a local share.
  3. Browse Disks, pick a title, boot. The card streams blocks as the machine asks for them, with local caching to keep it fast.
The CoGS Browse Disks hub on an Apple IIGS: Featured, Recent, six categories with title counts, GS and 8-bit totals, All disks A-Z, Find by name
Browse Disks in the card’s config menu: the category hub, pointed at this archive’s catalog
The CoGS All disks A-Z list on an Apple IIGS, page 1 of 123, with media size, 8-bit and HD tags per disk
All disks A-Z: one of 123 pages, Return boots the highlighted title

The streaming catalog is generated from the same data as these pages, so new additions show up on real hardware automatically. Of the 2,442 disks, 1,004 are 8-bit Apple II software (Total Replay, the MECC library, and more); those are listed on the 8-bit disks page.

CoGS project: a2cogs.com