What is the Apple IIGS?

Stream this archive to a real Apple IIGS

Every downloadable title here (about 689 of them) can be mounted directly over the network by an Apple II with a CoGS card or an A2retroNET 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; A2retroNET is Oliver Schmidt's A2Pico-based storage card, which can run the same network engine.
  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 & Mount screen listing disks from this archive on a real Apple IIGS
Browse & Mount on a real IIGS, pointed at this archive’s catalog

The streaming catalog is generated from the same data as these pages, so new additions show up on real hardware automatically.

CoGS project: a2cogs.com