Re: PrintShop IIgs problems

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article ggonter@together.net (Geof Gonter) writes...

>In article <pEcT.34$Gq2.259849@ptah.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan
>Mates) wrote:
> 
>>In article <256962526.4839152@logicbbs.org>,
>>Jim Low <Jim.Low@logicbbs.org> wrote:
>>>I recently added a ROM 3 Apple IIgs to my network of computers, and
>>>discovered that PrintShop IIgs doesn't work on it.  I end up with *
>>>on the screen when I try to launch it.  I made sure AppleTalk was
>>>off.  Any solution to this?
>>
>>   There may be a patch eventually for that, but remember that
>>PrintShop GS was one of the first GS programs done, and so had *many*
>>faults and problems. It was more of a //e version on a 3.5" disk and
>>splashier graphics than a true GS program. [Well, with Apple
>>forgetting to put enough ram in the initial GSs, you couldn't load
>>their fancy new OS, and the tools, and a program worth running, let
>>alone space-eating graphics. So they had to ditch the nice GS
>>programming environment just to get the thing out the door.]
> 
>Actually, there is a version that works well with the ROM1, but would not
>work with the ROM3 at all. Broderbund made those copyable, so one could
>load them on their hard drives. Supposedly the next version worked on the
>ROM3 wersion, without a problem. I have the first one, but the box and the
>disks just say "IIGS Version". There is no version number listed when it
>boots either.

    I noticed Print Shop GS wouldn't run on my ROM 3, but changing 
the version of ProDOS 8 that shipped on the disk fixed it (and it
still of course runs on my ROM 01 machine). I used ProDOS 8 v2.03
if I remember right, the version that shipped with System 6.0.1.

    This is with a version of Print Shop GS I purchased back in 
late 1987 (so chances are it is the original). 

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca