Re: Re: Apple IIgs Sales Demo

[mills@MAX.EE.LSU.EDU (John Mills)]

>>       OK, I've reuploaded the Apple IIgs Sales Demo to ccosun.caltech.
>>edu.  This time it SHOULD be perfect. :)  The demo is in 2 files:
>>
>>       SalesDemoDisk1.Shk and SalesDemoDisk2.Shk
>>
>
>        Can someone confirm whether or not this _new_ copy on ccosun is
>fully functional? I tested it on my ROM 3 and (as I expected) it crashed.
>I then brought it over to my ROM 01 IIgs, and this time it got as far
>as playing the jazz-music and showing the animated "rings" moving through
>the saxaphone outline. Once this little intro was done (static pictures of
>some a jazz-band with color-cycling in background) it starts loading the
>rest of the demo and then crashes into Monitor and sounding the system-beep.
>(Actually, all you see is a blank screen and hear the "beep", but it has
>crashed into a Monitor prompt and various garabage underneath all
>that...).
>
>        So, either something in my ROM 01 is conflicting with the demo,
>my copy somehow became corrupted in the process of downloading and/or
>unpacking (doubt that), or the copy on ccosun is bad again. If anyone got it
>to run beyond the sax-player intro (ROM 01 ONLY), please let me know...
>
>     ___ \   ___  / ___  ___/ |         / | David Ong Tat-Wee
 
I got the one on ccosun and am having problems with it also :( It's a ProDOS 8
program and doesn't know anything about GS/OS, however it DOES know a lot
about the GS :) When it starts up, it tries to grab lots of specific memory
(ie. all of bank $11, etc...) and when it fails to get that memory (like with
GS/OS booted), it crashes. This is on a ROM01 with ZIPGS off.
 
The easiest thing to do is boot from the floppy or directly into P8 (with
6.0.1's '8'-key).
 
My problem is that after fixing it up to run from a HD booted directly into P8,
it gets as far as doing the 'Introducing the Apple IIGS...', then it flashes
'File not found. Press a key to continue' continuously. I have to reboot after
that. Note: it does this even if I boot from the floppy. Obviously, it seems
that some files are missing in the archive. How about just GSHK-ing both disks
as disk archives?
 
-- John M.


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