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Re: 'What is the Apple IIGS' MAJOR UPDATE!



In article <489a2998$0$2270$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
 Alex Lee <alelee@mac.com> wrote:

> On 2008-08-07 07:46:34 +1000, "Jeff Blakeney" 
> <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-7rd-this> said:
>[...] 
> > I just downloaded the Cinemaware and Sierra demo 2IMG disk images and
> > the either Windows XP's unzip or WinRAR (I'm not sure which did the job
> > but it was probably WinRAR) had problems.  I was told the Sierra zip
> > file was corrupt and it couldn't be unzipped and the Cinemaware zip
> > uncompressed without errors but the disk image wouldn't boot and booting
> > a hard drive image with that image in slot 5, drive 1, I got the dialog
> > saying it didn't recognize the file system and asking if I wanted to
> > initialize it.  One other thing to mention, the file I got from
> > unzipping the Cinemaware zip file didn't have a file extension so I
> > assumed it was a 2IMG file and added the ".2MG" myself.
> > 
> > I'd never even heard of these two demo disks so I'm really curious as to
> > what they are like.
> 
> Hmmm...I probably won't be able to look at the .zip archive issue until 
> the weekend. Apologies to all. If you're interested in a program, do 
> try to download it and report back to this thread with what happened.

Both Cinemaware Demo & Sierra Games Demo download, unzip and list with 
AppleCommander. Cinemaware is a slide show; Sierra fails trying to load 
a missing Tool025:

<http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/demo-games>

$ ac -l *.2mg
CinemawareDemo.2mg /IIGS.SLIDE.SHOW/
  SLIDES.SYS16 S16 004 06/16/1988 06/16/1988 1,536  
  SLIDES DIR 003 11/04/1988 05/05/1988 1,536  
    NOW.SMP TXT 036 05/10/1988 05/10/1988 17,920  
    TITLE.SMP TXT 046 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,040  
    NORMLONG.SMP TXT 053 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 26,240  
    TRUMPS.SMP TXT 048 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,680  
    GALLERY.SMP TXT 052 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 25,728  
    PLOTTERS.SMP TXT 043 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 21,376  
    NORMCAST.SMP TXT 054 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 27,136  
    CORON.SMP TXT 057 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 28,416  
    KTITLE.SMP TXT 050 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,832  
    BIGCITYCAR.SMP TXT 033 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 16,000  
    TONYCLOS.SMP TXT 025 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 11,904  
    PALACE.SMP TXT 039 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 19,200  
    BRONSON.SMP TXT 036 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 17,536  
    CSF2.SMP TXT 038 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 18,560  
    SDITITLE.SMP TXT 042 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,864  
    RUSSLAUNCH.SMP TXT 030 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 14,720  
    SLOAN.SMP TXT 024 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 11,392  
    MONBOB.X.SMP TXT 027 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 13,056  
    MISSILES.SMP TXT 042 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,992  
    STITLE.SMP TXT 044 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 21,632  
    CRYSTAL.SMP TXT 033 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 16,384  
    SYLPHANI.SMP TXT 049 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,576  
    MAP.SMP TXT 049 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,192  
    TRAVELLER.SMP TXT 029 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 14,208  
    RRTITLE.SMP TXT 046 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,040  
    GONDOLA.SMP TXT 048 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,808  
    ZEPPELIN.SMP TXT 041 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,352  
    MOONBASE.SMP TXT 047 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,168  
    W.H.END.SMP TXT 047 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,168  
  PRODOS SYS 039 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 19,200  
  SYSTEM DIR 001 11/04/1988 05/09/1988 512  
    P16 P16 075 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 37,830  
    SYSTEM.SETUP DIR 001 11/04/1988 05/09/1988 512  
      TOOL.SETUP STR 068 07/15/1987 07/15/1987 33,956  
    TOOLS DIR 001 06/14/1988 05/09/1988 512  
    CW S16 069 06/16/1988 06/16/1988 34,816  
    FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/17/1988 08/17/1988 106  
  FINDER.ROOT FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 9  
  FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 137  
  CINEMAWARE.DEMO $F3 001 11/05/1988 11/05/1988 0  
ProDOS format; 61,440 bytes free; 757,760 bytes used.

SierraGamesDemo.2mg /SIERRAGAMESDEMO/
  DEMO.SYS16 S16 281 12/23/0107 12/23/0107 141,884  
  FINDER.ROOT FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 9  
  DATA DIR 001 11/24/1971 08/25/1972 512  
    LOGDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 666  
    PICDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 702  
    VIEWDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 681  
    SNDDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 669  
    WORDS.TOK TXT 001 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 102  
    OBJECT TXT 001 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 8  
    SIERRASTANDARD TXT 129 01/24/2004 07/19/2004 65,536  
    AGIFONT TXT 006 06/30/1987 06/29/1987 2,126  
    VOL.1 TXT 594 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 301,810  
    VOL.0 TXT 074 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 36,913  
  FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/06/2008 03/01/2007 92  
  PRODOS SYS 039 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 19,200  

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