Re: Fingerprint Card

[ab616@chebucto.ns.ca (Tony Cianfaglione)]

   What cards were they conflicting with?  I use a number of cards with
Fingerprint GSi (version 2 as version 3 is buggy with conflicts) and have
had a number of problems which I can't track down to the cards or to a
number of CDA/NDAs and CDEVs which might be conflicting. 

   I know the Shrinkit GS 1.1 that I'm using is trashing my Desktop file
everytime (I don't know if there is a newer version but, upon closing it), 
I have to un-hide my hidden files, go into Icons and dump the Desktop file
in the trash before proceeding further).  I sent Nathan Mates a copy of
the trashed Desktop file to see if he can find out where the conflict
lies.

   Signature GS is acting like a virus, corrupting other files.  Parking
the mouse in the lower right hand corner activates the screensaver and
various other files suddenly refuse to work properly.  

   Using PMPUnZip 2.0, I have reboot the GS holding the Shift key so it
will not load the CDA/NDAs, inits etc, otherwise it will crash or hang.
Pulling the Fingerprint GSi card doesn't seem to help with any other
conflicts.  I can't use my soundcards because something is conflicting
with them.  

   I frequently reboot, both with and without the TWGS (at 7, 10 
and 13.75mhz - I have 3 and all work equivalically), with and without the
GSi, with and without the Quickie and Lightning Scan scanners, with and
without the soundcards, on 4 different GS's (all ROM01) with the same
results so I know it's not the computers.  The cards or the software
have problems.  They are all legimately bought originals with manuals so
I installed them using the exact written specifications.

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John L. Graham (fl332@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:

> The FingerPrint (and its GS cousin the FingerPrint GSi) were cards that
> woould dump anything and everything from the screen to the printer. It
> could also save graphics to a disk file. We used them a lot in GS's in the
> early days, but pulled them when they started conflicting with other cards
> and we got reliable languages we could print from.
>  
> -John