pa_rich@merrimack.edu (02/13/90)
Hi everyone, I just bought myself a spare GS for a song, but its only a ROM 1 machine, is apple offering the upgrade to version 2 still or am I stuck without GSOS on this machine? THANX in adavance Antheos Master Assassin
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (02/14/90)
In article <18524.25d7d83d@merrimack.edu> pa_rich@merrimack.edu writes: >Hi everyone, I just bought myself a spare GS for a song, but its only a ROM 1 >machine, is apple offering the upgrade to version 2 still or am I stuck without >GSOS on this machine? Where do I start. There is no "ROM 2". ROM version 01 is the most recent released for the original IIGS. There is a ROM 03 but since it involves a different motherboard there is no upgrade offered for ROM 01 owners. At the time of your ROM 01 upgrade, your machine should also have had its VGC chip replaced, if it were one of the older versions. In any case, GS/OS runs on all ROM versions, although you do need a fair amount of RAM for the 16-bit desktop environment to be really useful. (1.25 MB total minimum recommendation.) So far as I know, Apple has never impose statutes of limitation on Apple II upgrades, which usually are installed free by the Apple dealer.
dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons) (02/15/90)
In article <12132@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >[...] In any case, GS/OS runs >on all ROM versions, although you do need a fair amount of RAM for the >16-bit desktop environment to be really useful. GS/OS runs on all ROM versions *except* the original ROM 0. (You get the message "GS/OS needs ROM version 01 or greater" if you try to boot it with ROM 0.) This is reasonable because the upgrade from ROM 0 to ROM 1 is free. Also, ROM 0 would need to have a larger amount of stuff replaced with RAM versions & the engineers would have to maintain an additional version of the Tool.Setup stuff. -- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems Apple II Developer Technical Support | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.