'What is the Apple IIGS' MAJOR UPDATE!
Alex Lee
archives and content, a content management system, a forum (which
requires registration, which should reduce that damn spam!) a blog and
news page that includes RSS and probably heaps of other things I’ve
forgot to mention because there’s so much that’s new.
I invite everyone to explore the site all over again, because you’re
bound to find, for example, many more educational software archives,
soundtracks to many games, a hand picked selection of the best freeware
and shareware apps and games, a new hardware section AND a new section
devoted to IIGS books and magazines.
Same bat channel:
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za
- Alex
Drew
Nice work :-). Was always very impressed with the amount of work you
put into your last site, and looks like it just got better :-). Really
like the idea of expanding into Hardware info as well nice one.
Cheers
Drew
Polymorph
Awesome work Alex! IMHO, your site was already the *best* - but the best
just got better. :-)
My kids are really keen to check out some of the new educational titles.
Thank you for all your hard work on this.
--
Cheers,
Mike
Find my Apple II projects online at:
http://apple2.sytes.net/
"It's my duty; my duty as a complete and utter bastard!" - Rimmer (Red
Dwarf)
bloomer_au
- Wade
Warren Ernst
Are there any new programs, or is this mainly a "GUI" update, so to
speak?
-Warr
Alex Lee
There are LOTS of new archives. Too many to remember and list them all.
Bill Garber
"Alex Lee" <ale...@mac.com> wrote in message news:48977708$0$1027$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
Very nice, Alex.
However, I couldn't get to the firmware ROM images, or
the preloaded hard drive image on the main page.
Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com
Alex Lee
You win a prize for finding the first bug! Your prize is...working
downloads for images of the ROM01, ROM03 and Hard Drive image :-) The
links are now fixed!
Bill Garber
"Alex Lee" <ale...@mac.com> wrote in message news:48980652$0$30465$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
YAY!!!!!!, I won, I won.
Ok, exercising my prize, I find that the hard drive image is the same
as the older one, except that the newer one doesn't have the nice
background picture of your web site on it.
As far as the ROM images, I can open the zips, but I can't extract
the files. Something about unsupported compression method.
RedskullDC
"Alex Lee" <ale...@mac.com> wrote in message
news:4896d8d0$0$2272$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
> This has a been a long process, combining new graphic design, new archives
> and content, a content management system, a forum (which requires
> registration, which should reduce that damn spam!) a blog and news page
> that includes RSS and probably heaps of other things I’ve forgot to
> mention because there’s so much that’s new.
>
> I invite everyone to explore the site all over again, because you’re bound
> to find, for example, many more educational software archives, soundtracks
> to many games, a hand picked selection of the best freeware and shareware
> apps and games, a new hardware section AND a new section devoted to IIGS
> books and magazines.
Great stuff,
I have some of the books that you don't have cover scans for, do the uploads
work as yet?
Can scan them this weekend.
Leslie
Drew
Hi Alex,
I have noticed that when browsing the site will get the page come up
with:-
"'Security', 'db/$Action' => 'DatabaseAdmin', '$Controller/$Action/$ID/
$OtherID' => '*', 'images/$Action/$Class/$ID/$Field' =>
'Image_Uploader', '' => 'RootURLController', 'sitemap.xml' =>
'GoogleSitemap' )); Director::addRules(1, array( '$URLSegment/$Action/
$ID/$OtherID' => 'ModelAsController', )); // Load error handlers
Debug::loadErrorHandlers(); // Connect to database require_once("core/
model/DB.php"); if(isset($_GET['debug_profile']))
Profiler::mark('DB::connect'); DB::connect($databaseConfig);
if(isset($_GET['debug_profile'])) Profiler::unmark('DB::connect'); //
Get the request URL $baseURL =
dirname(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])); if(substr($url,
0,strlen($baseURL)) == $baseURL) $url =
substr($url,strlen($baseURL)); // Direct away - this is the "main"
function, that hands control to the appropriate controller
if(isset($_GET['debug_profile'])) Profiler::unmark('main.php init');
Director::direct($url); if(isset($_GET['debug_profile']))
{ Profiler::unmark('all_execution');
Profiler::show(isset($_GET['profile_trace'])); } ?> "
or similar. Refresh tends to fix it. I am using IE 7 ...will try
Firefox to see if i get same issue.
Cheers
Drew
Alex Lee
I'm coming across some teething problems and I think the
upload/submission system is currently affected. However, I should be
able to clear this up in a day or two, certainly in time for the
weekend for you try out the submission system.
Alex Lee
> dirname(dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])); if(substr($url,
> 0,strlen($baseURL)) == $baseURL) $url substr($url,strlen($baseURL));
> // Direct away - this is the "main"
> function, that hands control to the appropriate controller
> if(isset($_GET['debug_profile'])) Profiler::unmark('main.php init');
> Director::direct($url); if(isset($_GET['debug_profile']))
> { Profiler::unmark('all_execution');
> Profiler::show(isset($_GET['profile_trace'])); } ?> "
>
> or similar. Refresh tends to fix it. I am using IE 7 ...will try
> Firefox to see if i get same issue.
>
> Cheers
> Drew
Yep, it's a known bug. We don't know what's causing it (yet) but a
refresh/reload in your browser should load the page as normal. The bug
appears across different browsers and platforms and we're sure it's a
server side issue.
schmidtd
> On 2008-08-05 19:50:49 +1000, "RedskullDC" <redskul...@oohay.moc.ua> said:
> > Great stuff,
>
> > I have some of the books that you don't have cover scans for, do the uploads
> > work as yet?
> > Can scan them this weekend.
>
> > Leslie
>
> I'm coming across some teething problems and I think the
> upload/submission system is currently affected. However, I should be
> able to clear this up in a day or two, certainly in time for the
> weekend for you try out the submission system.
> --
> - Alexhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/
some "unusual" responses from the server. :-)
Alex Lee
It doesn't seem to have come through.
I've just been in touch with my web developer, Rane, via email and he's
fixed an issue with submitting files. Uploading can't be complete
unless you type the word(s) presented as graphics as part of an
anti-spamming method. This now appears correctly, so in theory,
uploading/submitting files should now be working.
Try it again, and let me know if it still doesn't work.
Alex Lee
Ug, that's not a good sign re: being able to open the Zip files but not
extract anything from then.
Would you be able to download any 2image archive to see if that unzips
correctly?
I've zipped all the archives using StuffIt Standard v9.01 on MacOS X
10.4.11 and they should be stripped of any Mac specific icons or
resources. When I downloaded the ROM01 image, it unzipped correctly.
What program are you using the unzip archives?
schmidtd
something like, "Captcha is not valid coming from this domain" or some
such. I just submitted again (twice) - the first time, I got the
submission screen back with a new captcha challenge; maybe I typed it
in wrong. The second time I got to a "thank you" screen.
Bill Garber
"Alex Lee" <ale...@mac.com> wrote in message news:48984835$0$2274$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
> On 2008-08-05 19:04:52 +1000, "Bill Garber" <will...@comcast.net> said:
>
> > YAY!!!!!!, I won, I won.
> > Ok, exercising my prize, I find that the hard drive image is the same
> > as the older one, except that the newer one doesn't have the nice
> > background picture of your web site on it.
> > As far as the ROM images, I can open the zips, but I can't extract the
> > files. Something about unsupported compression method.
> > Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
> > http://www.garberstreet.com
>
> Ug, that's not a good sign re: being able to open the Zip files but not
> extract anything from then.
Seen it before, quite recently, in fact. Maybe try again, a different setting.
Let me know when it's ready.
> Would you be able to download any 2image archive to see if that unzips
> correctly?
Yes, the hard drive image opens and extracts just fine, leaving the resource
fork alone.
> I've zipped all the archives using StuffIt Standard v9.01 on MacOS X
> 10.4.11 and they should be stripped of any Mac specific icons or
> resources. When I downloaded the ROM01 image, it unzipped correctly.
> What program are you using the unzip archives?
I use WindowsXP's built-in decompressor when it works, and when not,
then I run 7-Zip, and that takes care of most other compressed files.
Alex Lee
>>> I sent you a scan of a RamKeeper - did that make it through? I got
>>> some "unusual" responses from the server. :-)
>>
>> It doesn't seem to have come through.
>>
>> I've just been in touch with my web developer, Rane, via email and he's
>> fixed an issue with submitting files. Uploading can't be complete
>> unless you type the word(s) presented as graphics as part of an
>> anti-spamming method. This now appears correctly, so in theory,
>> uploading/submitting files should now be working.
>>
>> Try it again, and let me know if it still doesn't work.
> I remember what the problem was now yesterday - the message I got was
> something like, "Captcha is not valid coming from this domain" or some
> such. I just submitted again (twice) - the first time, I got the
> submission screen back with a new captcha challenge; maybe I typed it
> in wrong. The second time I got to a "thank you" screen.
It's worked! Hooray! I hope to add the card scan to the site in the
next week. I'm getting a few submissions already, thanks everybody!
Keep looking through the site to see what's missing and where you may
be able to fill in the gaps.
golfrock
I sent you a bunch of card scans and it appears that you used several
of them. I don't see the CMS SCSI, Reg Apple SCSI or Sandwich II SCSI
card. There is no RAM GS in your list of RAM cards. Remember there
was one card with no markings at all?
You used the S&S RAM card but the enlarge does not seem to work for
that one.
I could send those scans to you again if you like.
Version 3 is awesome!! That was a lot of work but a labor of love I'm
sure.
Thank you.
Robert
dawjazz
Does this site work with IE 6? Maybe a setting is screwed up in my
browser, but when I click on any of the categories on the home page,
such as applications, games, educational, etc., nothing happens.
But when I use Mozilla Firefox 2, I see drop-down menus and I can
click on the various selections.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Dale
dawjazz
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
Jerry
[...]
> Yep, it's a known bug. We don't know what's causing it (yet) but a
> refresh/reload in your browser should load the page as normal. The bug
> appears across different browsers and platforms and we're sure it's a
> server side issue.
I hit it as well. Linux, Firefox 2.0.0.16.
--
-- Jerry
Mike Spurgeon
>
> Does this site work with IE 6? Maybe a setting is screwed up in my
> browser, but when I click on any of the categories on the home page,
> such as applications, games, educational, etc., nothing happens.
>
> But when I use Mozilla Firefox 2, I see drop-down menus and I can
> click on the various selections.
>
> Any suggestions?
No brainer.
Use Firefox...
Drew
Hi Alex,
Noticed that the System_6.01.zip seems to be corrupt get error when
trying to extract from it.
Cheers
Andrew
Alex Lee
I thought we got it working with IE6 to a point, but I don't have a PC
to test it with. Firefox v2 or v3 is prefered. Even try Safari for
Windows, you'll get drop shadows under the pull down menu items :-)
Bill Garber
"Alex Lee" <ale...@mac.com> wrote in message news:48997c17$0$11885$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
IE6 here, and I get the drop-down menus. No clicking. point and wait.
Jeff Blakeney
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:31:49 +1000, Alex Lee wrote:
> Ug, that's not a good sign re: being able to open the Zip files but not
> extract anything from then.
>
> Would you be able to download any 2image archive to see if that unzips
> correctly?
>
> I've zipped all the archives using StuffIt Standard v9.01 on MacOS X
> 10.4.11 and they should be stripped of any Mac specific icons or
> resources. When I downloaded the ROM01 image, it unzipped correctly.
> What program are you using the unzip archives?
I just downloaded the Cinemaware and Sierra demo 2IMG disk images and
the either Windows XP's unzip or WinRAR (I'm not sure which did the job
but it was probably WinRAR) had problems. I was told the Sierra zip
file was corrupt and it couldn't be unzipped and the Cinemaware zip
uncompressed without errors but the disk image wouldn't boot and booting
a hard drive image with that image in slot 5, drive 1, I got the dialog
saying it didn't recognize the file system and asking if I wanted to
initialize it. One other thing to mention, the file I got from
unzipping the Cinemaware zip file didn't have a file extension so I
assumed it was a 2IMG file and added the ".2MG" myself.
I'd never even heard of these two demo disks so I'm really curious as to
what they are like.
Alex Lee
<jeff.b...@a2central.com.remove-7rd-this> said:
Hmmm...I probably won't be able to look at the .zip archive issue until
the weekend. Apologies to all. If you're interested in a program, do
try to download it and report back to this thread with what happened.
Alex Lee
I just had a quick download of the Cinemaware Demo and it downloaded
and unzipped fine. Worked fine with Bernie ][ to the Rescue running in
Classic on MacOS X 10.4.11. Whatever you're using, note which operating
system, browser and which program you use to unzip. Try as many
different combinations of these as you can.
Is anyone else using a Mac with Bernie or Sweet 16? If it works for you
as well, it's beginning to look like some resource fork crap might be
making WinRAR think the archives are corrupt. What a joy it will be to
re-zip each archive and copy them into their respective folders, and
upload them as well :-)
magnusfalkirk
>
> Is anyone else using a Mac with Bernie or Sweet 16? If it works for you
> as well, it's beginning to look like some resource fork crap might be
> making WinRAR think the archives are corrupt. What a joy it will be to
> re-zip each archive and copy them into their respective folders, and
> upload them as well :-)
> --
> - Alexhttp://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/
Alex,
I'm using a Mac Mini running OS X 10.4.11 and Sweet 16. I noticed a
problem with Star Saga One and Star Saga Two. They unzipped with no
trouble, I can boot them up without any trouble but when I actually
try to play either game I end up in a sort of loop. I select start a
new game, then select a character and end up back at start a new game
because it says there is no game data available. Any ideas?
Dean
John B. Matthews
Alex Lee <ale...@mac.com> wrote:
> On 2008-08-07 07:46:34 +1000, "Jeff Blakeney"
> <jeff.b...@a2central.com.remove-7rd-this> said:
>[...]
> > I just downloaded the Cinemaware and Sierra demo 2IMG disk images and
> > the either Windows XP's unzip or WinRAR (I'm not sure which did the job
> > but it was probably WinRAR) had problems. I was told the Sierra zip
> > file was corrupt and it couldn't be unzipped and the Cinemaware zip
> > uncompressed without errors but the disk image wouldn't boot and booting
> > a hard drive image with that image in slot 5, drive 1, I got the dialog
> > saying it didn't recognize the file system and asking if I wanted to
> > initialize it. One other thing to mention, the file I got from
> > unzipping the Cinemaware zip file didn't have a file extension so I
> > assumed it was a 2IMG file and added the ".2MG" myself.
> >
> > I'd never even heard of these two demo disks so I'm really curious as to
> > what they are like.
>
> Hmmm...I probably won't be able to look at the .zip archive issue until
> the weekend. Apologies to all. If you're interested in a program, do
> try to download it and report back to this thread with what happened.
Both Cinemaware Demo & Sierra Games Demo download, unzip and list with
AppleCommander. Cinemaware is a slide show; Sierra fails trying to load
a missing Tool025:
<http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/demo-games>
$ ac -l *.2mg
CinemawareDemo.2mg /IIGS.SLIDE.SHOW/
SLIDES.SYS16 S16 004 06/16/1988 06/16/1988 1,536
SLIDES DIR 003 11/04/1988 05/05/1988 1,536
NOW.SMP TXT 036 05/10/1988 05/10/1988 17,920
TITLE.SMP TXT 046 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,040
NORMLONG.SMP TXT 053 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 26,240
TRUMPS.SMP TXT 048 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,680
GALLERY.SMP TXT 052 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 25,728
PLOTTERS.SMP TXT 043 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 21,376
NORMCAST.SMP TXT 054 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 27,136
CORON.SMP TXT 057 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 28,416
KTITLE.SMP TXT 050 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,832
BIGCITYCAR.SMP TXT 033 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 16,000
TONYCLOS.SMP TXT 025 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 11,904
PALACE.SMP TXT 039 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 19,200
BRONSON.SMP TXT 036 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 17,536
CSF2.SMP TXT 038 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 18,560
SDITITLE.SMP TXT 042 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,864
RUSSLAUNCH.SMP TXT 030 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 14,720
SLOAN.SMP TXT 024 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 11,392
MONBOB.X.SMP TXT 027 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 13,056
MISSILES.SMP TXT 042 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,992
STITLE.SMP TXT 044 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 21,632
CRYSTAL.SMP TXT 033 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 16,384
SYLPHANI.SMP TXT 049 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,576
MAP.SMP TXT 049 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,192
TRAVELLER.SMP TXT 029 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 14,208
RRTITLE.SMP TXT 046 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,040
GONDOLA.SMP TXT 048 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,808
ZEPPELIN.SMP TXT 041 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,352
MOONBASE.SMP TXT 047 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,168
W.H.END.SMP TXT 047 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,168
PRODOS SYS 039 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 19,200
SYSTEM DIR 001 11/04/1988 05/09/1988 512
P16 P16 075 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 37,830
SYSTEM.SETUP DIR 001 11/04/1988 05/09/1988 512
TOOL.SETUP STR 068 07/15/1987 07/15/1987 33,956
TOOLS DIR 001 06/14/1988 05/09/1988 512
CW S16 069 06/16/1988 06/16/1988 34,816
FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/17/1988 08/17/1988 106
FINDER.ROOT FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 9
FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 137
CINEMAWARE.DEMO $F3 001 11/05/1988 11/05/1988 0
ProDOS format; 61,440 bytes free; 757,760 bytes used.
SierraGamesDemo.2mg /SIERRAGAMESDEMO/
DEMO.SYS16 S16 281 12/23/0107 12/23/0107 141,884
FINDER.ROOT FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 9
DATA DIR 001 11/24/1971 08/25/1972 512
LOGDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 666
PICDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 702
VIEWDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 681
SNDDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 669
WORDS.TOK TXT 001 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 102
OBJECT TXT 001 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 8
SIERRASTANDARD TXT 129 01/24/2004 07/19/2004 65,536
AGIFONT TXT 006 06/30/1987 06/29/1987 2,126
VOL.1 TXT 594 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 301,810
VOL.0 TXT 074 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 36,913
FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/06/2008 03/01/2007 92
PRODOS SYS 039 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 19,200
--
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
home dot woh dot rr dot com slash jbmatthews
John B. Matthews
Alex Lee <ale...@mac.com> wrote:
I don't see any evidence of a spurious fork on either the zip or the
unzipped image. unzip -l shows a single file of the correct size:
$ unzip -l Cinemaware_Demo.zip
Archive: Cinemaware_Demo.zip
Length Date Time Name
-------- ---- ---- ----
819264 06-21-99 04:42 Cinemaware Demo.2mg
-------- -------
819264 1 file
[Mac OS X 10.4.11; Safari 3.1; UnZip 5.51]
Bill Garber
"Alex Lee" <ale...@mac.com> wrote in message news:489a3128$0$2270$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
Ok, I recently learned that 7-ZIP has an internal command called,
"Open Inside", and when I use this on the compressed internal file,
it opens up the 2mg and I can then extract it. Both Cinemaware
and Sierra Games Demos unzipped and extracted fine, and ran
just as well. The Sierra Demo requires being placed on a separate
disk and run from within GS/OS. Because of it being a SYS16
file it can't run under the ProDOS that is presently on the image.
Mark Percival
Feel free to include any material I have made available from my Micol
Advanced BASIC IIgs site.
http://www.markpercival.net/MAB/
--- Mark
Jeff Blakeney
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:46:34 -0400, Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> I just downloaded the Cinemaware and Sierra demo 2IMG disk images and
> the either Windows XP's unzip or WinRAR (I'm not sure which did the job
> but it was probably WinRAR) had problems. I was told the Sierra zip
> file was corrupt and it couldn't be unzipped and the Cinemaware zip
> uncompressed without errors but the disk image wouldn't boot and booting
> a hard drive image with that image in slot 5, drive 1, I got the dialog
> saying it didn't recognize the file system and asking if I wanted to
> initialize it. One other thing to mention, the file I got from
> unzipping the Cinemaware zip file didn't have a file extension so I
> assumed it was a 2IMG file and added the ".2MG" myself.
I was poking around in my Apple II archive directory on my PC today and
noticed that the Cinemaware_Demo.zip and the Cinemaware_Demo file that I
added a .2mg extension too were the same size (430 KB). I then changed
the extension of the .2mg file to .zip and unzipped that and got a file
named "Cinemaware Demo.2mg" which was 801 KB and worked fine.
It looks like that particular disk image was zipped twice.
> I'd never even heard of these two demo disks so I'm really curious as to
> what they are like.
I haven't been back to retry the Sierra demo but I did look at the
Cinemaware demo. Those guys sure could do some nice things with IIgs
graphics. Too bad some of their other games were never done for the
IIgs.
Alex Lee
Hmmm...this sounds like another problem altogether. I've just tested
this with Bernie and I can select characters and I *THINK* I've then
begun a game. I just tried with Sweet 16 v 2.0 Beta 1 and...well...I
can't even get it to boot. I've not had much luck getting anything to
work with that version of Sweet 16...I'm looking forward to Beta 2.
Anyways, I'm going to guess that the level of emulation offered by
Sweet 16 isn't supporting Star Saga. If you can try it with Bernie or
KEGS, it may work. Also, if you can convert the disk image to a real
disk, you could also try it with a real IIGS.
Alex Lee
I've checked my copy of the Sierra Demo - there's no system folder on
it. If you're trying to run it from another system and it reports
Tool25 is missing, you'll need to copy that tool from a system folder
that includes it to your commonly used system.
The System 6 hard drive image I've set up includes Tool25. It's been
setup to include all the most common tools, and fonts so that games
that support System 6 run as smoothly possible.
Alex Lee
<jeff.b...@a2central.com.remove-4bx-this> said:
OK, this is what I've found thanks to testing on my girlfriend's Dell laptop.
Downloading the .zip files through Firefox 3 results in zip files that
open in either WinRAR or the built in Windows XP zip decompressor. The
folder containing the 2image disk archives appears as normal once
decompressed.
Downloading the .zip files with Internet Explorer 6 results in the
problems in decompressing the zips. WinRAR shows the corrupt looking
file as several people have described. It's probably also occuring with
IE 7.
I'll let the web developer know of this issue.
In the meantime, try out Firefox 3 (www.firefox.com) and your download
problems and HTML rendering problems will be over.
Alex Lee
Thanks Mark! I've downloaded all those materials and have sorted them.
I hope to include them on the site shortly.
John B. Matthews
Alex Lee <ale...@mac.com> wrote:
> On 2008-08-07 10:06:14 +1000, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> said:
> > In article <489a2998$0$2270$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au>,
> > Alex Lee <ale...@mac.com> wrote:
> >> On 2008-08-07 07:46:34 +1000, "Jeff Blakeney"
> >> <jeff.b...@a2central.com.remove-7rd-this> said:
> >> [...]
>> > Sierra fails trying to load a missing Tool025:
> >
> > <http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/demo-games>
[...]
> I've checked my copy of the Sierra Demo - there's no system folder on
> it. If you're trying to run it from another system and it reports
> Tool25 is missing, you'll need to copy that tool from a system folder
> that includes it to your commonly used system.
>
> The System 6 hard drive image I've set up includes Tool25. It's been
> setup to include all the most common tools, and fonts so that games
> that support System 6 run as smoothly possible.
Alex: Thanks! I have rather less experience with IIgs. Am I correct that
Tool025 is not on the Sierra Demo?
Jeff Blakeney
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:35:34 +1000, Alex Lee wrote:
> OK, this is what I've found thanks to testing on my girlfriend's Dell laptop.
>
> Downloading the .zip files through Firefox 3 results in zip files that
> open in either WinRAR or the built in Windows XP zip decompressor. The
> folder containing the 2image disk archives appears as normal once
> decompressed.
>
> Downloading the .zip files with Internet Explorer 6 results in the
> problems in decompressing the zips. WinRAR shows the corrupt looking
> file as several people have described. It's probably also occuring with
> IE 7.
>
> I'll let the web developer know of this issue.
>
> In the meantime, try out Firefox 3 (www.firefox.com) and your download
> problems and HTML rendering problems will be over.
I just downloaded the Sierra Demo with Firefox and it worked fine this
time.
I'm wondering if the double zip problem with the Cinemaware Demo is
something that has bit me a few times in the past year. Some web
server/client combinations can negotiate to gzip data before sending it
across but there is never any user interface element to tell the user
that this is happening. Internet Explorer seems to be particularly
brain dead when it comes to this as it will negotiate to gzip the data
that gets transferred but then simply save the gzipped data on the
client's end without changing the suffix (filetype) to let the user
know. This might only happen when using the "Save Target As..." option
in IE7.
I know it happen to me when downloading some text files and I couldn't
open them only to find that they were much smaller than I expected and
when I took at a look at their contents, discovered the gzip header.
Adding a .gz suffix allowed me to unpack them without any problems.
Alex Lee
For some strange reason, there wasn't even a system folder on the disk
image for the Sierra demo which means you won't be able to boot from
it. You'll need to download the System 6 hard drive image (found on the
home page), boot that, then run the Sierra demo from the Finder.
Bill Garber
"Alex Lee" <ale...@mac.com> wrote in message news:489e387a$0$2276$afc3...@news.optusnet.com.au...
>
> For some strange reason, there wasn't even a system folder on the disk
> image for the Sierra demo which means you won't be able to boot from
> it. You'll need to download the System 6 hard drive image (found on the
> home page), boot that, then run the Sierra demo from the Finder.
> --
> - Alex
> http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/
For some strange reason, I recall someone saying that here 3 days ago.
Oh yeah, that was me. 8>D
John B. Matthews
>>>> Sierra fails trying to load a missing Tool025:
"Bill Garber" <will...@comcast.net> wrote:
> "Alex Lee" <ale...@mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > For some strange reason, there wasn't even a system folder on the
> > disk image for the Sierra demo which means you won't be able to
> > boot from it. You'll need to download the System 6 hard drive image
> > (found on the home page), boot that, then run the Sierra demo from
> > the Finder.
Alex: Thank you! I had installed from Apple's 6.0.1 images, but never
realized I didn't have everything. The Sierra Demo runs fine now, and I
found the Pascal & DOS FSTs!
> For some strange reason, I recall someone saying that here 3 days
> ago. Oh yeah, that was me. 8>D
Bill: Sorry I misunderstood your message
<http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.apple2/msg/3d3eed6a5efc09fe?hl=e
n>
I got the part about "being placed on a separate disk and run from
within GS/OS," but I didn't understand that the missing Tool025 was on
one of SystemTools disk images.
bloomer_au
Sweet16 and SS1, and if I try to boot in KEGs, it just makes KEGs quit
without a word after you see the 'Prodos' screen.
- Wade
John B. Matthews
<e1092026-98f4-4ce8...@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
bloomer_au <blo...@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
KEGSOSX 0.65 dies booting. I'm not seeing a problem on Sweet16 2.0b1 or
KEGSMAC 0.91. The game continually refers to the manual, but apparently
I just bought tools in a crater and am now aloft! :-)
Alex Lee
> In article <e1092026-98f4-4ce8...@i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
> bloomer_au <blo...@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I'm using the exact same OS as Dean. I have the same problem with
>> Sweet16 and SS1, and if I try to boot in KEGs, it just makes KEGs quit
>> without a word after you see the 'Prodos' screen.
>
> KEGSOSX 0.65 dies booting. I'm not seeing a problem on Sweet16 2.0b1 or
> KEGSMAC 0.91. The game continually refers to the manual, but apparently
> I just bought tools in a crater and am now aloft! :-)
The one thing you need to know about Star Saga 1 and 2 is that you
absolutely NEED to have the boxed game to play. It includes a game
board and a massively thick manual. Both games are very rare and highly
respected and desired by RPG fans - Star Saga 2 for the IIGS went on
eBay last year for about $130 U.S.
You won't find any graphics in the game software as all the graphics
were kept on the game board, which was lushly illustrated and included
many pieces.