Re: Apple //GS Sales Demo.

[markm@kaiwan.com (Mark Miller)]

In article <17JUL199421432013@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spector@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
>In article fmlin@netcom.com (Frank M. Lin) writes...
>>
>>>least 1.25mb of RAM and two 800k floppy drives. It's supposed to run with a
>>>single floppy drive if you configure it so, but I've not been successful at
>>>getting to run on such a setup -- and I have two ROM 01s! I suspect you need
>>>1.5 to 2megs of RAM to run it properly from one floppy drive on a ROM 01 (both
>>>my machines are only 1.25mb).

I know of a patch for single 3.5" drive owners who would like to run the Sales
Demo but don't really feel like digging it out unless there is a big demand
for it.  ;-)

>	Neither of my ROM 01 systems are hardrive equipped, so I can only
>run the demo with two 800k floppy drives. Using the single drive option causes
>the jazz-music to become distorted at the intro, and then it completely crashes
>when it tries to the load next demo segment (spinning GS with female voice
>over). My ROM 3 has two 800k floppy drives and will (very soon!) have a hardrive
>connected, but the demo isn't compatible with the newer ROM version.. :/

Hmm.  I wasn't aware of that.  That shouldn't happen unless Apple is not
following their Human Interface Guideline, no?  :)

>>>	FYI, the 1986 Apple IIgs Sales Demo isn't the only one Apple Computer
>>>produced. I know of at least two or three others that were on display in
>>>stores (at least in Canada) back in 1987 and 1988. I just happen to have one of
>>>these in my collection from Apple France called "Maitrisel Vorte Souris!"
>>>(translation: "Mastering your Mouse"). Again nothing very exciting, though it
>>>does have some impressive 256 color cycling and animation at the intro. The
>>>other IIgs dealer demos' I've seen are of static picture displays (ie - familly
>>>using a GS, digitized photos, etc). 
>> 
>>Don't think I've seen that... Gimme :)
>
>	Done! :) I've made it available on the ccosun.caltech.edu FTP site.
>Look for it in pub/apple2/uploads, filename "M.V.Souris.shk". It seems 
>System 6.0.1/HD friendly and runs on both ROM versions. 

Thanks!

>	If any out there has the other Apple IIgs dealer demos, please make
>them available to us (they do exist).

There are also at least two versions of the "Tour of the Apple IIGS" program.
Once is a greyscale version and the latter is a color version (and slightly
different from the former).  I only have the greyscale version, although a
friend of mine has both.

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