Re: Apple IIe GUI

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Donald C. Lee (coach41@pacbell.net) wrote:
: Hi Thomas,
<snip>
:     An additional headache for IIe owners was that you had to install a
: tiny little interrupt card for the program to work properly.  It also
: didn't help that I didn't have a MOUSE!  :D  That's my fault there but in
: general, GEOS didn't work out all too well.  Appleworks is much better for
: applications and ProDos for file handling.  
<snip>

--> My understanding, is that the only reason the `interrupt card'
    needed to be installed on IIe's to allow GEOS to work properly,
    was only if one did _NOT_ have a mouse (and therefore mouse card)
    installed.  There was no need for this `fix', if one had a mouse.

    My GEOS works fine on my HD, as long as I boot from a floppy with
    the GEOS boot-code.  I run into protests from GEOS, when I launch
    a tool/utility that was `keyed' to a different name, but it still
    runs OK (afaicr). Keeping un-keyed backups may eliminate that
    particular problem, but I've never taken the time to test this.

    I also understand that GEOS would allow only `x' number of HD
    installs and once this limit was reached, then no more could be
    done.  I didn't know this, when I was first tinkering with GEOS
    and consequently only have one more HD install left before it
    refuses to let me do any more - which makes me hesitant to do
    any more tinkering . . . 

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