Re: How to determine GS/OS version

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

CC Rider <alaskacc@yahoo.com> wrote:

> One of my hard drives boots to a ProSel screen.  I am trying to find
> out what version of GS/OS is in the background.  The initial IIGS
> splash screen does not have any version on it, unlike the 6.01 that I
> see on some boot-ups.  Is there a place to check in the finder or via
> a block editor that would reveal the version?

It is probably System 4.0, since 5.0 and later advertised their version
number during boot, if I remember right.

Press the space bar right at the beginning of startup. GS/OS will start
up in text mode, displaying its version number at the top of the screen.

I don't have my detailed list of version numbers handy, but from memory,
the major version number of GS/OS is 2 behind the major system version
(i.e. System 4 has GS/OS 2, System 5 has GS/OS 3, System 6 has GS/OS 4).


-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz