daveharv@pro-novapple.UUCP (System Administrator) (09/13/88)
>Saw a mention that there is a version 3.2 of the GS System Disk. Does >anyone know what the changes from 3.1 are? is it even legit? >TMPLee@Dockmaster.ARPA The new version 3.2 of the Apple IIGS system disk is a legit issue and can be obtained from a number of sources such as your local Apple Dealer, APDA and many Apple User Groups. As to what's different about this version over the 3.1 version, the August 1988 issue of Open-Apple had this to say about the new version: "Whether you have a IIgs or an older Apple, you'll want at least some of the files on this disk. There are new versions of ProDOS 8 (1.6), ProDOS 16 (1.6), Basic.system (1.2), Finder (1.1), and System Utilities (3.1). The new version of ProDOS 16 isn't THE new (16-bit) version of ProDOS 16 that we've been waiting for. However, it does have modifications that allow it to boot over an AppleTalk network and to boot faster from any device.... "According to documents sent to developers, the changes to the Basic.system fixed a bug that concerned the number of entries in a directory and a bug related to pressing control-S to stop a catalog display. No mention is made of the fix to the well-documented CHAIN bug. "...many of the files in the TOOLS subdirectory have had bug fixes and several new tools are being released... include the ACE (Audio Compression and Expansion) tool." There's two new midi drivers and a driver for the Imagewriter LQ. The FINDER was changed so that it won't crash if memory gets compacted. I understand you can download the disk for places like Compuserve. That's a easy way to spend lots of money, however. It takes about 200 minutes to download the files. proline: pro-novapple!daveharv uucp: {cbosgd, sdcsvax, nosc}!crash!pro-novapple!daveharv arpa: crash!pro-novapple!daveharv@nosc.mil Internet: daveharv@pro-novapple.cts.com Northern Virginia Apple Users Group >pro-novapple< 703-671-0416/300-2400 baud
SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) (09/13/88)
>The new version 3.2 of the Apple IIGS system disk is a legit issue and can be >obtained from a number of sources such as your local Apple Dealer, APDA and >many Apple User Groups. A couple of months ago our club (H.U.G.E. in E. Hartford, CT) filled out all the paperwork to get a license to redistribute new versions of ProDOS to out members. I asked about ProDOS 1.5 (or 1.6) at the meeting last Friday and was told we had heard zilch from Apple on the subject. If User Groups are getting ProDOS 1.6 (or even 1.5), how are they doing so? Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) "We have met the enemy and they are us!" Pogo (Walt Kelly)
lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) (09/16/88)
WARNING!! If you do get the new System Disk 3.2, be sure to begin using it in the correct way! A new release of a system disk from Apple should NEVER just be file copied over an existing system disk unless you are intimately knowlegable with the various files ON THE OLD AND NEW DISKS. For example, some of the 'experts' that I know tried to use a file copy program to just copy over all the new files over top of the old ones on an existing disk. Well, what happened was a) brand new files that never existed before were left behind. While this was great for non-Appletalk use - there are a LOT of A.T. files on that disk! - it messed up a lot of the rom fixes, and b) a few old files that are not to be present were left! This caused a lot of so called 'incompatibilies' of software to show up - appleworks crashs, etc. Once folks took their original copy of the system disk, copied it, deleted from the copy those pieces no longer wanted, added those DAs, Start Ups, etc that they did want, they found few programs that crashed (only those that tried to compensate for bugs that are now fixed - and there are a LOT of fixes in SD 3.2). P.S. On CIS, during a 9-10pm time period (normally quite heavy system use) on a local CIS node phone line, with no line noise, at 2400 baud and using Vidtex Quick B protocol, it took me 53 minutes to download a BNY version of the new system disk which had aoubt 25% compression. This was a 624,454 .bqy file (expands to 1532 blocks fully loaded with all the Appletalk, etc. files). I havent created a pared down version of the disk yet. Using the full disk I see minimal decrease in the boot time. But after I trim down a lot of the drivers etc I expect to see more benefits. -- Larry W. Virden 75046,606 (CIS) 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817 osu-cis!n8emr!lwv (UUCP) osu-cis!n8emr!lwv@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (INTERNET) We haven't inherited the world from our parents, but borrowed it from our children.