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Re: 'What is the Apple IIGS' MAJOR UPDATE!

On 2008-08-07 10:06:14 +1000, "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> said:


In article <489a2998$0$2270$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>,
 Alex Lee <alelee@mac.com> wrote:
On 2008-08-07 07:46:34 +1000, "Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-7rd-this> said: 
[...]

I just downloaded the Cinemaware and Sierra demo 2IMG disk images and
the either Windows XP's unzip or WinRAR (I'm not sure which did the job
but it was probably WinRAR) had problems.  I was told the Sierra zip
file was corrupt and it couldn't be unzipped and the Cinemaware zip
uncompressed without errors but the disk image wouldn't boot and booting
a hard drive image with that image in slot 5, drive 1, I got the dialog
saying it didn't recognize the file system and asking if I wanted to
initialize it.  One other thing to mention, the file I got from
unzipping the Cinemaware zip file didn't have a file extension so I
assumed it was a 2IMG file and added the ".2MG" myself.

I'd never even heard of these two demo disks so I'm really curious as to
what they are like.
Hmmm...I probably won't be able to look at the .zip archive issue until the weekend. Apologies to all. If you're interested in a program, do try to download it and report back to this thread with what happened.
Both Cinemaware Demo & Sierra Games Demo download, unzip and list with AppleCommander. Cinemaware is a slide show; Sierra fails trying to load a missing Tool025: 

<http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/demo-games>

$ ac -l *.2mg
CinemawareDemo.2mg /IIGS.SLIDE.SHOW/
SLIDES.SYS16 S16 004 06/16/1988 06/16/1988 1,536 SLIDES DIR 003 11/04/1988 05/05/1988 1,536 NOW.SMP TXT 036 05/10/1988 05/10/1988 17,920 TITLE.SMP TXT 046 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,040 NORMLONG.SMP TXT 053 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 26,240 TRUMPS.SMP TXT 048 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,680 GALLERY.SMP TXT 052 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 25,728 PLOTTERS.SMP TXT 043 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 21,376 NORMCAST.SMP TXT 054 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 27,136 CORON.SMP TXT 057 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 28,416 KTITLE.SMP TXT 050 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,832 BIGCITYCAR.SMP TXT 033 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 16,000 TONYCLOS.SMP TXT 025 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 11,904 PALACE.SMP TXT 039 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 19,200 BRONSON.SMP TXT 036 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 17,536 CSF2.SMP TXT 038 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 18,560 SDITITLE.SMP TXT 042 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,864 RUSSLAUNCH.SMP TXT 030 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 14,720 SLOAN.SMP TXT 024 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 11,392 MONBOB.X.SMP TXT 027 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 13,056 MISSILES.SMP TXT 042 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,992 STITLE.SMP TXT 044 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 21,632 CRYSTAL.SMP TXT 033 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 16,384 SYLPHANI.SMP TXT 049 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,576 MAP.SMP TXT 049 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 24,192 TRAVELLER.SMP TXT 029 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 14,208 RRTITLE.SMP TXT 046 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,040 GONDOLA.SMP TXT 048 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,808 ZEPPELIN.SMP TXT 041 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 20,352 MOONBASE.SMP TXT 047 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,168 W.H.END.SMP TXT 047 05/05/1988 05/05/1988 23,168 PRODOS SYS 039 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 19,200 SYSTEM DIR 001 11/04/1988 05/09/1988 512 P16 P16 075 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 37,830 SYSTEM.SETUP DIR 001 11/04/1988 05/09/1988 512 TOOL.SETUP STR 068 07/15/1987 07/15/1987 33,956 TOOLS DIR 001 06/14/1988 05/09/1988 512 CW S16 069 06/16/1988 06/16/1988 34,816 FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/17/1988 08/17/1988 106 FINDER.ROOT FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 9 FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 137 CINEMAWARE.DEMO $F3 001 11/05/1988 11/05/1988 0 ProDOS format; 61,440 bytes free; 757,760 bytes used. 

SierraGamesDemo.2mg /SIERRAGAMESDEMO/
DEMO.SYS16 S16 281 12/23/0107 12/23/0107 141,884 FINDER.ROOT FND 001 08/06/2008 08/06/2008 9 DATA DIR 001 11/24/1971 08/25/1972 512 LOGDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 666 PICDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 702 VIEWDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 681 SNDDIR TXT 003 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 669 WORDS.TOK TXT 001 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 102 OBJECT TXT 001 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 8 SIERRASTANDARD TXT 129 01/24/2004 07/19/2004 65,536 AGIFONT TXT 006 06/30/1987 06/29/1987 2,126 VOL.1 TXT 594 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 301,810 VOL.0 TXT 074 11/24/1971 11/24/1971 36,913 FINDER.DATA FND 001 08/06/2008 03/01/2007 92 PRODOS SYS 039 07/14/1987 07/14/1987 19,200
I've checked my copy of the Sierra Demo - there's no system folder on it. If you're trying to run it from another system and it reports Tool25 is missing, you'll need to copy that tool from a system folder that includes it to your commonly used system.
The System 6 hard drive image I've set up includes Tool25. It's been setup to include all the most common tools, and fonts so that games that support System 6 run as smoothly possible. 
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- Alex
http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/