Re: Problems with Asimov!

["Rodney Hester" <rod3@mindspring.com>]

"Cheezy" <mo.cheez@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message
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> Today, I successfully installed the latest version of Asimov (2.0) on my
> Apple IIGS - to be more precise, on my G3's shared drive - and was able to
> make a floppy from a .2MG file. I then launched Asimov again, because I
> wanted to make another bunch of floppies out of some .sdk files... and it
> returned me an error message saying "Invalid pathname syntax. Code: $0040"
> I erased the whole Asimov folder, especially after I'd noticed a weird
file
> (odd and repeated figures and letters as a name...)  had appeared in its
> folder. Same thing, same alert, and same file appearing when I quit
Asimov.
> Could someone please tell me what went wrong ? Is there any cache or prefs
> file that might be stored and corrupted somewhere in the OS ?
> I'm running GS/OS v. 5.0.4 on a ROM 01 GS with 1mb of Ram. I store my GS
> apps and files on my G3's hard drive, using appleshare.
> Everything had worked quite fine, so far...

I've found that Asimov 2.0 is really, really not happy about running from
HFS volumes, only ProDOS.  I've seen the same problem myself.  If it's at
all possible to store just Asimov on a local ProDOS partition, you should do
so - if not, put it on a floppy and run it from there.

Rodney