Re: AWGS 1.1 (was: Re: general ? on 2gs)

[apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu (ISCA AppleII Librarian)]

I don't wnat to dispute what either Mitchell or supetimer have said.  I'll
just say that my experience with AWGS is more like supertimer's.  I do
not claim that AWGS is NOT buggy, but for me it has been nicely stable.

I have used it with various systems:

  1) Rom1 GS, ZipGS 8/64, 4Meg RAMGS, Apple HS SCSI (DMA OFF), Appletalk
ON, Laserwriter NT & Appletalk Imagewriter II

  2) Rom3 GS, ZipGS 8/64, 4Meg QRAM,  Apple HS SCSI (DMA ON), serial
Imagewriter II

  3) Rom1 GS, stock, 4Meg ? ram, Apple Rev C SCSI, serial Imagewriter II

  4) Rom3 GS, stock, 2Meg ? ram, Apple HS SCSI (DMA ON), serial
Imagewriter II

All systems have 20Meg or larger SCSI harddrives.  All are using system 6.0.1.
All systems have 2 Apple 3.5 drives and 1 Apple 5.25 drives.  (Uhh, system 1
uses a Superdrive controller, 1 superdrive, 1 800k drive)

Systems 3 and 4 are for my kids and they both use AWGS WP for their school
papers.  They do edit and spell check their documents.  They do save their
work every hour or so :-)  AWGS is very stable for them.  Maybe each has
had only 1 lockup in the 3 or 4 years.  (Daughter is 18 and off to college
next week.  Son is starting freshman year of high school next week.)

I have used AWGS occasionally for writing papers at work on systems 1 and
2.  I never have had a AWGS problem.  (I must admit I use classic Appleworks
for the majority of my writing so my experience is a little more limited with
AWGS).

I believe I have all systems configured to NOT preload modules.

[Note:  And YES, I DO own 4 copies of AWGS!]


Anyway, AWGS WP does work and is stable enough on my systems to be a viable
word processing program.  My son and daughter have used the SS and some other
modules a lttle bit without big problems but I have very limited
experience with the other modules.

My systems all use Pointless, a couple use the Phantasm screen blanker and
the others use a freeware/shareware(?) blanker  (no graphics, just blank
screen).  Otherwise, pretty standard sys 6.0.1 with some standard patches.

I consider myself a lucky.  I have read from several users that AWGS is
horrible on their systems.  My experience is AWGS is much more stable than
BeagleWriteGS ever was, although they are pretty similar.

My Appleworks.GS file (from finder info) is
  Size:  852,031 bytes, 793K on disk

  Created:  Mon, Oct 23, 1989, 2:24 PM

  Modified: Mon, Oct 23m 1989, 2:24 PM

I don't have any idea why I am having better than average luck with AWGS.

  --Steve

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 --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)