Re: Truly rebooting an Apple IIGS

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> mdj wrote:
>> Linards Ticmanis wrote:
>>
>>>Lyrical Nanoha wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hold down the Command (Open Apple) key while pressing the same keys.
>>>
>>>Right, and the important thing here is that Open Apple is being held
>>>down while Reset is *released*. At least on the IIe, I don't own a IIgs.
>>
>>
>> Each of the three machine designs (IIe, IIc, IIgs) that have this
>> feature all implement it slightly differently, and are sensitive to
>> different variations.
>>
>> The official, sactioned, 'three-finger salute' is to hold down both
>> control and open apple, then press and release reset. Once you see the
>> machine rebooting, you can release the modifier keys.
>
> The only time that a //e will look at the modifier key is *after* the
> reset ends, which is after either Ctrl or Reset is released.
>
> I would expect this to be true even with keyboard buffering, since a
> reset should empty the buffer, too.

    Maybe, joystick's first button is stuck being pressed down which it is 
linked to Open Apple.  Press and hold CTRL key while pressing RESET key 
without touching Open Apple before it is rebooting because joystick's first 
button is down.  Try to disconnect joystick and it should clear Open Apple - 
CTRL - RESET to be working fine.

Bryan Parkoff