Re: Apple II GUI

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes...
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>It is possible that "MouseDesk 2.0" was not supplied with US IIgs's.
>The disk is actually Apple IIgs System 1.0, but is labelled "MouseDesk
>2.0".  It is missing some pretty major pieces of the toolbox, if I
>remember right, so there were many programs which would not work with it.

  This is true, I recall attempting to use MouseDesk to launch several
Apple IIgs specific (ProDOS 16) programs when my IIgs arrived. I had
little or no luck, so about two weeks later I purchased a copy of
System 3.2 from the local usergroup. I was rather annoyed, System 1.0
had no useful function, other than perhaps graphically viewing the
contents of a disk. The Double-Hi-Res Pascal based "Your Apple Tour of 
the Apple IIgs" disk was no less impressive. ;)

>It was the only system disk provided for the IIgs in New Zealand from
>September 1986 to late in 1988 (when System 4.0 was released).  We
>didn't get ROM upgrades from 00 to 01 until early 1988.

   The very same applied to Canada. In fact the reason I had to purchase
System 3.2 from a usergroup (who downloaded it from the United States)
was the local Apple dealer claimed not to have it yet. I don't remember
the situation with ROM upgrades, but at least my system came shipped
with the ROM 01 chip (Jan 88). Unfortunately it didn't include a free
256K Memory Expansion Card, which I had to purchase separately. If it
had been purchased in the US, I'm sure this would have been included.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca