Re: PrintShop IIgs problems

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

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.]

>I also discovered, using my ROM 1 Apple IIgs that Printshop GS will not work
>with an AppleTalk ImageWriter.  I have to keep my non-AppleTalk ImageWriter
>around to use it.

   See above. If it's not explicitly listed as being compatible to
PSGS, then it's almost certainly not. Don't count on using any extra
GS/OS printer drivers (Harmonie, Independence, Stylewriter,
Laserwriter, etc) with PSGS, as it has no clue how to deal with them.

   It's too bad Broderbund never released a GS/OS version of the
program once Apple started selling machines capable of using all the
extra features they billed it as having.

Nathan Mates
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