Re: PrintShop IIgs problems

[ggonter@together.net (Geof Gonter)]

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.