Re: ROM 03 compatible Dungeon Master?

[a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

"Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Thanks!  I've now found the ROM 3 compatible version - and patch - on the GS
>Gaming Memory Fairway.
>
>The "original" crack fails to load GS.OS.START (from an older GS/OS release)
>on a ROM 3 machine, but works OK on a ROM 1.

    Was as the error message: "Error Loading GS.OS File. Error=$002E"?

    I used to encounter that when Diversi-Cache 1.0 was in memory (you
can see it installed in the CDA menu) and I tried to boot any version
of GS/OS afterwards. The problem was the original Diversi-Cache was
incompatible with the ROM 3 and some older games and demos would
unfortunately install it without your knowledge (it was embedded in
the ProDOS boot file I recall).

    Diversi-Cache 2.0 fixed this, though where possible you'll have to
replace any 1.0 versions and avoid booting any disks which have it
hidden and embedded (GSA's California Demo comes to mind). Hm,
I seem to remember it ironically _slowing down_ disk access on 
ROM 3 for ProDOS-8 and 16 based programs, and of course, just
killing the GS/OS boot process. Running the IIgs self-test will
remove the older version from memory...

Mitchell Spector
a_specto@alcor.concordia.ca