Re: IIgs questions...

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 labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:

>My 2nd IIgs drops into the monitor halfway through booting anything if the
>memory card is installed. It's the 'Apple IIgs Memory Expansion' from
>Apple. I know this is vague, but I'm just curious if it might be the card,
>or the chips, or a misconfigured jumper (can't remember how it was jumped
>originally)
>
>I tried all new RAM chips from a IIe memory expansion (they seem to be the
>same type, 41256-15, however, perhaps they are not...) and it still
>failed.

Try operating the self-test.  Option-Command-Control-Reset.

>Anyone have a good source for the pieces so that I can install a battery
>holder on the board and use a removable lithium battery in it (like the
>mac)? The Radio Shack guy looked at me like I was a devil, then went and
>got his manager, who told me I should just buy a new battery and solder it
>right on there.

The Raido Shack guy is an idiot.  Radio Shack DOES stock the holder.
I don't know the number, but you should ask another Radio Shack.
Show them the battery and ask them for a holder for it.  Don't mention
anything about the IIGS, as that is likely to confuse them.  If all else
fails, I'm pretty sure http://www.digikey.com/ DigiKey has these holders.

>Were there any IIgs viruses? I couldn't remember any, but the other day I
>discovered after running several programs in a row, that something had
>been kind enough to install diversicache in memory for me...I didn't
>really mind because it seemed to speed up booting some games, although it
>would make some sierra games fail with a Tool error 0021 (I think) when it
>went to check for the second disk...but then the thought occurred to me,
>hey, I wonder if these wonderful games I just downloaded from the internet
>with their oh-so-elite 'we hacked this game so visit our BBS' screens and
>the kindness to install CDAs for me, I couldn't help but suffer a moment's
>apprehension at the thought of a virus happily scooting about my disks.

Yes, there were some IIGS viruses.  Maybe your disks got infected.
The viruses are rare.  Some even saved themselves into battery
RAM.  You should be able to find some anti-virus software on the
ground ftp server.