Re: Problems with Asimov!

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

I found a copy of Asimov 2.0 and downloaded it
using IE and it was not corrupted.  It is a flaky bit
of software.  It does generate disk using the 2mg
format for 800k disk.  It doesn't handle the screen
very well for some reason and it expects to find a
blank 5.25 floppy in the floppy drive when it boots
up.  It always gives me an error even when I am
wanting to make 800k disk.  It keeps looking for
a 5.25 inch disk.

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Just hacking away...
"Rubywand" <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> william strutts writes ...
> >
> > Where did you find Asimov 2.0?  I tried to download it
> > from one FTP site and the file was corrupted. I have found
> > that Netscape is the cause of most of my corruption problem
> > and I have to use Internet Explorer to download files from
> > FTP servers.  That has fixed a lot of my problems.  I don't
> > know the reason Netscape corrupts shk archives.
> >
>  ....
>
>      Usually, .shk archives download okay from ftp sites. (If your browser
does
> not know that .shk is a binary type, you may need to Shift-click on the
file
> name and select "Save Link As" to avoid having it download to your screen
as
> Text.)
>
>      The problem with downloading .shk (.sdk, .dsk, ...) files from http
sites
> under Netscape seems to be that the host site does not recognize the
filetype
> suffixes as binary types and, so, lets the browser deal with the files as
> unknown types.
>
>      Evidently, Netscape defaults to treating them as Text, at least when
it
> comes to writing them to disk. So, line ender chars ($0D and $0A) get
'fixed'--
> e.g. 0D becomes 0D 0A.
>
>      If you use the Uncook utility fairly soon after such a download, it
will
> usually succeed in restoring the file. For Uncook info and a download
link,
> click on "Download Help" at
http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/index.html .
>
>      Asimov2 is now available in a .zip file in the GSWV archive Utilities
> folder at http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/Sel/index.html .
>
>
>
> Rubywand