A friend of mine reviewed the Transwarp GS years ago for an article.
For what its worth he wrote an article on clocking the Transwarp GS.
Basically you need a new processor and a new crystal. The crystal is
located at the upper corner of the card. It has a number printed on it
which is four times the speed of the chip. If you had a 7mhz chip the
crystal would have the number 28.
My friend had his Transwarp running at 10mhz. Chips can be overclocked
by using faster crystals which control the timing of the chip.
Ten mhz is the upper limit for a Transwarp GS although I seem to
remember accounts of up to 13mhz. The faster you run the Transwarp the
sooner you wear it out.
I recall the stock IIGS runs at 2.8mhz. It actually seems like its
faster because it only pushes 64k of video. This brings back memories
of when Apple was trying to kill off the Apple line and they wouldn't
upgrade the IIGS and the supposed rumors IIGS all in one.
I really liked my IIGS, but Apple was never serious about it. If you
start loading it up with ram and cards you will stretch the power
supply to where you will start having these weird crashes and system
interrupts. They really gave the Apple IIgs the short end.
Mark Murphy
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