Unidentified disc

[g.wright@tcs.wap.org (Geraldine Wright)]

on 24 Apr 1996 bird@MCS.COM (J. L. Walters) wrote:
 >> A new person recently took over our Apple Club's disk library.
 >> Looking through the disks he found one that appears to have
 >> something to do with PrintShop...
 
 >> Disk name: PSL.NEWPS5
 
 >> The files in the GRAPHICS folder have the following characteristics:
 
 >> Name     Size         Kind
 >> -----    -----      ---------
 >> PIC.M1     2K        User #5
 >> PIC.M2     2K
 >> etc.
 >> PIC.W7     2K        User #5
 
 >> We would appreciate any help you can give in identifying this disk.
 
I would be willing to bet that this is a disc of New Print Shop graphics. All
discs with libraries of New Print Shop graphics, fonts and borders have a
volume name that starts with the 4 characters "PSL.". Also, New Print Shop
library discs keep the graphics, fonts and borders in separate
subdirectories, just as this disc seems to do. The disc is probably not old
Print Shop graphics, since it has a subdirectory, and so is a ProDOS disc,
not a DOS 3.3 one (old Print Shop is a DOS 3.3 program). It is not Print Shop
GS graphics, either, since Print Shop GS graphics have a file type of $F8,
instead of $F5. Given the size of the graphics files, my guess is that these
are graphics that have been converted from the old Print Shop format to the
New Print Shop format using the conversion utility on the New Print Shop
program disc. The way to check this is to have a look at the files' aux type.
The converted old Print Shop graphics, which I call lo-res mono graphics,
have an aux type of $3007.
 
As for identification of the source of the disc, my sizable collection of New
Print Shop graphics doesn't have any discs exactly like that, although the
naming conventions on the files is the same as some discs I bought from
Quality Computers and which were originally sold by Beagle Brothers.
 
 
Gerry (the Applesoft-aholic)
g.wright@tcs.wap.org