Re: Memory Card???

[Slick <PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com>]

David Empson wrote:
> 
> Slick <PAYSlick_RCBD@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I thought that TOOL.SETUP was for tool patches common to all ROM
> > versions and the TSx was for tool patches were for a specific ROM
> > version.
> 
> In recent enough System Software (3.1 and later, I think).  Once you go
> back far enough, TOOL.SETUP is a monolithic file that contains all
> patches, with appropriate ones applied to the system according to the
> detected ROM version.  There are no TSn files.
> 
> When they added the TS1 and TS2 files, TOOL.SETUP became a simple loader
> for the other files.  I'm pretty sure it didn't include any patches
> itself at this time.  In a later system version, common patches for ROM
> 1 and 3 were moved into TOOL.SETUP so that disk space could be saved (by
> avoiding duplication in TS2 and TS3).
> 
> (I could confirm all this by reading through the release notes for
> Systems 4 through 6, but I want to go to bed.)
> 
> > In my experience, the disk will boot up fine on either a ROM 1 or a ROM 3
> > machine if TS1 (under System 4.0) is omitted.
> 
> As I said in my earlier posting, TS1 is the patch file for ROM 00, not
> ROM 01.  TS2 is the patch file for ROM 01.  TS1 is completely ignored by
> System 4.0 or later - you can't even boot GS/OS (System 4.0 or later) on
> a ROM 00, so the TS1 file would never be used.
> 
> The only way you could end up with a TS1 file on a System 4.0 boot disk
> is if you put it there yourself (or your source disk had it there due to
> being a mixture of system versions).  Official System 4.0 only has
> TOOL.SETUP and TS2.
> 
> --
> David Empson
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz
> Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand
O.K. Here is the story of how I got my disk. I am not the only person in
my geographic location that has shared this story. The disk "Your Tour
of the Apple IIGS" booted up fine. However, when I put in the disk
marked "System Disk" I got the message "Unable to Load ProDOS". The same
thing happened with the disk "System Tools". I brought the disks back
(with my parents, I was in 4th grade) to the store where it came from.
The people at the store looked at the disks and found they were blank.
They made me two new copies. Apparently, the system they had up and
running (I don't remember what it looked like, that was nine years ago)
had the file TS1 on it.

I am not the only person in the suburbs of Chicago (Arlington Heights)
to have gotten blank System 4.0 disks with their IIGS. After I read the
manuels for the IIGS, I was suddenly a called computer-wiz. Later, I was
called to a friend of my parents to see if I could help them get to the
Finder. The person had been using only AppleWorks (on the origional
disk) and some games. He also had blank system disks. I determined this
with AppleWorks.
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