Re: Hopefully last dumb newbie question.

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dwatkins@swlink.net (Dan Watkins) wrote:

>2. The game disk itself is bootable. If I boot up with the game disk, however,

>    the Apple II GS "greet screen" (the initial screen that tells you it's 
>    a GS,  what ROM it is, etc.) remains on the screen in garbled form 
>    even after I start the game, interfering with my ability to read the 
>    game text (I hope I made that clear).

The problem is simple and easy to fix.  When you boot up the GS,
is the screen in 80 column mode (is the greet screen filled with
"narrow" characters)?

The software you are trying to run, designed for the 64k II+, is about
10 years older than the GS.  It does not know about 80 column mode.
The GS starts up in 80 column mode and gets stuck in that mode
when you run the game.  That's why each alternating vertical line
is filled with the remnants of the greet screen.

Press Open Apple-Control-Escape to enter the text based control
panel (or boot the System disk and find the control panel NDA
under the Apple menu) and select the Monitor control panel.  Set
the display to 40 columns. Now the GS will start up in 40 columns
and the old software will no longer be confused.