Re: IIGS Mouse control panel

[Slick <PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com>]

Randy Shackelford wrote:
> 
> Slick (PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com) wrote:
> : There is a down side to the ROM 3. Some programs that break Apple's
> : rules will not run on a ROM 3. Nobody has mentioned this in the thread.
> : I know at least one of the FTA's programs doesn't work on the ROM 3. I
> : don't remember which one, but one of them crashed a ROM 3 whenever I
> : tried to use it, yet it worked fine on my ROM 1.
> 
> I'd check to see if slot 4 is set to the mouse port instead of your card if
> software doesn't work on the ROM 3. Unless some programs use off the wall
> calls to the firmware instead of doing it the right way, they should work
> exactly the same on a ROM 3.
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I don't feel like digging through my Apple II publications archive, but
Big Red Computer Club had some programs that they said wouldn't work on
a ROM 3. It was in their newsletter Scarlet.

As for the ROM 3, it was a ROM 3 with no cards in it at all, so slot 4
WAS set to mouse port instead of your card.
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