Re: Looking for Help on the IIgs!

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jeremy@seaknet.alaska.edu (Jeremy Andrews) wrote:
>Greetings...
>
>It's been some time since I've used an Apple II, the computer that I
>grew up on.  (I've been using Amiga's and Mac's for the last few years)
>Recently I was at some friends place who have a IIgs for their family
>computer, and they were having a number of problems that I offered to
>help with.  It's great getting onto a IIgs again.
>
>Some problems I've been unable to solve myself:
>
>The system is equipped with an audio animater, but the software won't
>allow any recording to take place.  It say's "press the spacebar to
>record", but when pressed it flashes "recording" for half a second,
>then automatically stopped as though I pressed the space bar twice.
>
>Another quirk that i suspect is related is when going into the CDA
>with ctrl-apple-esc and then into control panels, pressing return on any of
>the selections responds as though I pressed return three times...  (e.g.,
>it brings me into the panel, brings me back out, and then brings me back
>in again, all rather quickly.)

Jeremy, your friend's Apple IIgs keyboard is experiencing the
symptoms of "sticky keys."  If this is the problem, you'll need
to disassemble it and clean everything (lubricate the keyswitches
and use soap and water on the keycaps and case).

To find out if this is really the problem, take your Macintosh
ADB keyboard and bring it over to your friend's IIgs.  Swap your
keyboard for his and see if the Mac keyboard does not exhibit
the sticky keys symptoms.  If your keyboard works, then your
friend's is dirty and needs cleaning.


>Something else I was trying to figure out was how to adjust the margins in
>AppleWorks GS 1.1.  I printed onto their HP Deskwriter 600 just fine,
>but it wasn't centered all that well on the page.  I didn't find anywhere
>in the software that allowed me to adjust this, what did I miss?

Like most graphics word processors, AppleWorks GS 1.1 adjust
margins by moving little tabs on the ruler.  As I understand
it, you can also fool around with settings in the "Page Setup"
of the File menu to communicate with the printer.


>And speaking of the HP DW 600, does anyone know if there is a driver
>that offers support for color yet?

Yes, the Harmonie printer drivers from Vitesse support this.
The info is on Nate's FAQ site.


>My final question is of less importance to me...  We've been trying to
>install games onto their hard drive, and as I recall from my past
>experience some games refuse to install due to their obnoxiously
>quirky copy protection.  They do have a copy of Copy II+ 9.0, but there
>isn't an automatic coppy setting for Dungeon Master (HD).  Is there
>somewhere via http or ftp that I could download such a script?

Try http://ground.isca.uiowa.edu/ and look for an install for
the program.  Note that downloading on your Mac and bringing
it over to the IIgs works wonderfully.  Just make sure that
the IIgs has System 6.0.1 and the HFS FST installed and that
you download from Netscape onto a regular Macintosh _800K_
disk (unless the IIgs has a high density drive, it'll need to
be 800K to be IIgs readable).  The Mac-to-Apple2 problems
listed in the FAQ only refer to 8-bit Apple IIs, since the IIgs
handles resource forks just fine.

-Scott G.