Re: GS help plea

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rpirong@aztec.asu.edu (RICHARD PIRONG) wrote: 
>I'm an old Apple ][+, //e and Franklin user from way back. Now, I have
>a //gs. (03) and expect to be here with odd-ball questions fairly often.
>Here is my first.  The "About this Apple" pulldown says there is 1152k
>total memory. (Normal for a rom03, right?)  When I plug in an App.Eng.
>GS-RamPlus card...it tells me that I now have 7296k.   Hmmm, This does
>not compute.

The GS is right.  You have 6MB on the card and 1MB on the
motherboard, giving you 7MB total.  Nice system.

> 
>I have been told that the reason is because I am trying to use the
>rom01 version in my rom03 and need a different PAL chip. Since A.E. is
>out of business, is there a source?

You have the ROM 3 version already, otherwise the memory board
won't work.

> 
>Todays second is software. I do not know how to tell GSshrinkit or
>similar programs how to find the files to be unpacked. I get a blank
>white page with a message asking where is the file and the wristwatch
>curser that waits forever.
>I get the same result when I double click on a SEA file. A white page
>with a message "Extract the enclosed files("GSHK"etc) where?"
> 
>A keystroke by keystroke walkthru would be appreciated. I'm really
>confused.

Richard, you do you have a Syquest, Zip Insider, or AMR 3.5" floppy
drive connected to the GS?  These three causes the system to hang
in "getfile" dialog boxes.  The solution is to keep a disk/cartrige
in the offending drive and then you should be able to run your
system just fine.

> 
>  PIRONG@DELPHI.COM     aka    rpirong@aztec.asu.edu  (Richard Pirong)
>-- 

-Scott G.