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

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Alex Lee" <alelee@mac.com> wrote in message news:489a3128$0$2270$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> On 2008-08-07 08:45:44 +1000, Alex Lee <alelee@mac.com> said:
> 
> > On 2008-08-07 07:46:34 +1000, "Jeff Blakeney" 
> > <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-7rd-this> said:
> > 
> >>   To: Alex Lee
> >> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:31:49 +1000, Alex Lee wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Ug, that's not a good sign re: being able to open the Zip files but not 
> >>> extract anything from then.
> >>> 
> >>> Would you be able to download any 2image archive to see if that unzips 
> >>> correctly?
> >>> 
> >>> I've zipped all the archives using StuffIt Standard v9.01 on MacOS X 
> >>> 10.4.11 and they should be stripped of any Mac specific icons or 
> >>> resources. When I downloaded the ROM01 image, it unzipped correctly. 
> >>> What program are you using the unzip archives?
> >> 
> >> 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.
> 
> I just had a quick download of the Cinemaware Demo and it downloaded 
> and unzipped fine. Worked fine with Bernie ][ to the Rescue running in 
> Classic on MacOS X 10.4.11. Whatever you're using, note which operating 
> system, browser and which program you use to unzip. Try as many 
> different combinations of these as you can.


Ok, I recently learned that 7-ZIP has an internal command called, 
"Open Inside", and when I use this on the compressed internal file, 
it opens up the 2mg and I can then extract it. Both Cinemaware 
and Sierra Games Demos unzipped and extracted fine, and ran 
just as well. The Sierra Demo requires being placed on a separate 
disk and run from within GS/OS. Because of it being a SYS16 
file it can't run under the ProDOS that is presently on the image. 

Bill Garber from GS-Electronics
http://www.garberstreet.com