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

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-4bx-this>]

  To: Jeff Blakeney
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:46:34 -0400, Jeff Blakeney wrote:

> 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 was poking around in my Apple II archive directory on my PC today and
noticed that the Cinemaware_Demo.zip and the Cinemaware_Demo file that I
added a .2mg extension too were the same size (430 KB).  I then changed
the extension of the .2mg file to .zip and unzipped that and got a file
named "Cinemaware Demo.2mg" which was 801 KB and worked fine.

It looks like that particular disk image was zipped twice.

> I'd never even heard of these two demo disks so I'm really curious as to
> what they are like.

I haven't been back to retry the Sierra demo but I did look at the
Cinemaware demo.  Those guys sure could do some nice things with IIgs
graphics.  Too bad some of their other games were never done for the
IIgs.