swhitney@hprnd.HP.COM (Steve Whitney) (09/12/89)
I have TOS 1.4 in my 1 meg 520ST, and I recently purchased "MAvis Beacon Teaches Typing" because I'm a hunt-and-peck typist. Anyway, it just won't run... It creates an "initialized data disk," but when I try to run MAVIS.PRG, it starts, draws half of the title screen, prints "compression messed up" a few times (4?), and then croaks with a dialog that says "Fatal error 9006: Decode Init: error reading DTable." What I'd like to know is, has anyone on the net successfully run Mavis on Rainbow TOS (1.4)? I ran it in low rez without _any_ TSR or desk accessories... Thanks, Steve
swhitney@hprnd.HP.COM (Steve Whitney) (09/16/89)
Well, it turns out that Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing _doesn't_ work on TOS 1.4. I have no idea why this is, but it doesn't work, and the Software Toolworks tech person I talked to gave me two options: They'll replace it or refund my money... But I just bought it. Anyone who bought it awhile ago may be out of luck. They didn't seem to be interested in fixing the problem. Oh, well.... Sigh. --Steve "destined to hunt and peck forever" Whitney