Re: Memory Card???

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Matt Willman <Willman.Matt@WEHATESPAMcnf.com> wrote:

>Just upgraded my original ROM 0 machine last night to a ROM 1 ( one chip
>upgrade !? )...and also added a fully populated
>SirusRam card (8 meg)...everything seems to work fine, as the GS
>recognizes all 8 megs on the board, and the fact that I upgraded
>the ROM; however I'm having problems with some of my software.

Good; you have 1/2 of the hardware needed to make the GS a
usable system.  The second half is a hard disk drive.

>For example, the orig system disk that came with the GS, which includes
>Finder 1.1 crashes after it tries to boot the desktop.  Some other
>bootable diskette's do the same thing, mostly the ones that try to boot
>an earlier version of GS/OS...which I'm assuming Finder 1.1 is part of?

That's not Finder 1.1, it is Apple II Desktop 1.1, a fake Finder
that Apple shipped with the GS in 1986 because the REAL
Finder was not yet written.  It is really a IIe program...setting
the RAM disk or ROM disk in the control panel to some sizes
will crash this old program.

It usually crashes while quitting one way or another if you
have any number of newer hardware installed.

Get the REAL GS/OS and the REAL Finder will avoid all this.

>Prodos 8 & 16 diskette's seem to boot fine.  Is there a problem with the
>early GS software and the ROM 1, or the memory card?

More like a problem with newer hardware and the OLD fake
Finder...

>Anyone have anything similar happen to them?  Any insights would be
>appreciated...No other cards are in the GS at the present, just the
>memory card itself.

I recommend getting System 6.0.1, the latest system software
for the GS.  If you buy the Focus hard drive, an IDE hard drive
on a card from Alltech Electronics http://www.allelec.com/
(starts at about $50 U.S. dollars), Alltech has System 6.0.1
preinstalled with many freewares and sharewares.  A good buy
and it will solve all your problems.

You need System 6.0.1 to run any new GS software, so it is
worth it!