chuq@sun.uucp (Chuq Von Rospach) (06/25/86)
A few days ago I asked for info on updating my Paradise to HFS. Thanks to
all that responded (especially Dave Burnard).
I thought the net might be interested in how things turned out. I downloaded
all the Apple stuff from CompuServe, and proceeded to replace all of the
System files on a copy of the paradise boot floppy with the new stuff. This
also required killing off some of the standard files on the floppy such as
Backup to make room. All you NEED on the boot floppy is the system folder,
the Start Paradise application and the Paradise Manager Application (see
note below). Include the Hard Disk 20 software and you're up on HFS.
After that, I booted the floppy and ran Start Paradise, and it loaded up
the disk perfectly. (Amazing. No problems!) I had stored all the files
on floppy, so I rebuilt the disk. Previously, I had about 15 partitions
and very little free space. Under HFS, I have three partitions (**System,
*Backup and Floppy) with one partition holding all of my work files. I
suddenly have lots of space again because I don't have to build overflow
buffers into each partition. Everything, and I mean everything, went
flawless. The new Apple system and finder went in cleanly, the Paradise
stuff worked cleanly. amazing.
Once everything was in, I rebuilt my Font's, DA's and such (rather than try
to update a System with Installer, I prefer to simply put my stuff back in.
That way, I know exactly where things have changed). Everything works fine,
as far as I can tell, down to the Jclock INIT resource. One note: even
though you don't use the boot floppy very often, make sure you have the
Paradise Mounter DA installed on it. I forgot this, and if you don't go
through the autoboot procedure you can't get to the HD without it.
Some things have broken under HFS. My version of CopyIIMac doesn't work
(I'll fix that today), but that was expected. Because of this, though,
I'm back to using Key disks for Word and File until I can reinstall them
without the damned idiotic stupid irritating dumb dumb dumb assinine copy
protection (<- editorial comment. Microsoft, you listening?). I STILL can't
believe I'm forced to pay $25 to a third party to be able to make reasonable
use of my software. argh. Anyway, despite that, both word and file seem to
work fine once you get them started. MacTerminal 2.0 works fine under HFS.
The only glitch. The Backup program shipped with Paradise release 2.0
software won't work under HFS. Don't expect it to. No big deal, I expect
HFS backup will work out just fine. I have a manual backup of everything,
so I'm not sweating it.
Performance. Roughly similar, although it is hard to tell. I was running
the HD with 128K of Ram cache. I'm currently running with 0 until I'm sure
things are stable. Things seem slightly slower, which may or may not have
to do with the cache. Booting is slower because it needs to load HFS into
RAM -- this goes away with the ROM upgrade.
Kudos: Apple
The new release is great! Everything worked like a charm, which is
amazing. Nothing I did to that system (fonts, DA's, INITs, wierd
operating procedures, whatever) broke. All the applications now
have a version number on the screen (glad someone at Apple invented
version numbers) so I can finally tell without being a hacker what
I'm running. Some items (such as the Imagewriter) have had items
renamed for clarity. Small icons are a Godsend. yipee! A super
kudo for making the software available on Compuserve and the like so
I can get it at MY convenience when I need it, rather than having to
wait for a dealer who is trying to get me to spend money instead of
handing out freebies.
Kudos: Paradise:
Everything fell in place without a glitch. Paradise was REAL smart
in using a startup application rather than a set of hidden INIT
resources or something for booting. It makes my life MUCH easier
not having to beat the thing into shape.
Bitches:
o Paradise: for shipping an MFS only Backup without warning people
of it (that I could find).
o Central Point Software: for charging $18.00 to upgrade a piece of
software I can buy down the street for about $25 and take home
today. Which do you think I'm going to do? (*grumble*)
o Microsoft: For making the software from Central Point Software
(Aka CopyIIMac) neccessary. Will people ever learn how much Copy
Protection pisses off their REAL customers without slowing down the
rest?
o Apple: For being too restrictive on the licensing. It is a good
first step, and definitely a step forward, but just a baby step.
Let's hope they get lots of good vibes from this and liberalize
things.
chuq
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-- The Anarchist Cookbooktdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Newton) (06/27/86)
> Some things have broken under HFS. My version of CopyIIMac doesn't work > (I'll fix that today), but that was expected. Because of this, though, > I'm back to using Key disks for Word and File until I can reinstall them > without the damned idiotic stupid irritating dumb dumb dumb assinine copy > protection. There are ways around this. Do you remember that set of "patch files" for some backup program that were posted to net.sources.mac a few months ago? While it would obviously be more convenient to have the backup program do the work, you can change the type of a patch file to 'TEXT', and using a disk editor and the documentation on the command types that was included, apply the patches by hand to obtain an unprotected version of the program being modified that can be copied to a 400 or 800K floppy, hard disk, etc. One program for which patches were supplied is Microsoft WORD. Of course, Microsoft's "License Agreement" says that one is not to modify their software, but I don't think that it has any possible legal standing, since one never sees it until after the sale. (Offering to undo the sale if you don't like the terms hardly makes the "license" legal in my humble opinion; if it's your disk, you can damn well break the seal if you feel like it without agreeing to anything). They still have copyright on the software, of course, which should adequately protect them against thieves. The "License Agreement" that Dreams of the Phoenix uses is similarly bogus, but at least they seem to act reasonably in other respects (their software isn't copy protected, and I recently got a card in the mail announcing the HFS version of Q&D Utils V1; the upgrade fee is $2 (or $5 if one wants the new manual as well as the new software)). Long live unprotected software! Bankruptcy to all who promote copy protection! -- Thomas Newton