halam@umnd-cpe-cola.d.umn.edu (haseen alam) (02/01/90)
First of all, I would like to thank John Unruh, David Baird, and
Paulo L. de Geus for their useful replies. Now all my favourite INITs
and CDEVs are working fine on my Mac IIci under system 6.0.4. But in
some cases I had to go beyond their hints to get things working. So I
would like to share the following info with you all. BTW, I have the
following set of INITs and CDEVs running all the time. System config.
is Mac IIci, 5 meg RAM, 70 meg Jasmine external HD, built in video,
system v6.0.4 and finder 6.1.4.
INIT/CDEV list:
Gatekeeper Aid v1.1.1 GateKeeper v1.1.1 Vaccine v1.0.1
init cdev v2.0 Boomerang v2.0 UnScrolly v1.0
CrashSaver Init v1.0 ColorFinder DeskPict v1.0
Desktop Manager v2.0b2 Moire cdev v3.0 On Cue v1.3
QuicKeys v1.1 Suitcase II v1.2.5 SuperClock! v3.5
DOS Mounter v0.9(demo)
Dos Mounter works fine with the above set of INITs, but it freezes my
system during bootup whenever I use a color startup screen. These
screens are 90k-250k in size. Other than that it is ok. Has anyone
else tried using Dos Mounter with starup screens?? Also it is
extremely slow. It takes about 2 minutes to put a disk on the desktop
with a lot of directories. Also it takes quite some time to open and
close folders. Has anyone used the commertial one? How fast/slow is
that compared to the demo version?
Quick Keys, On Cue, and Suitcase did not load at one point. So I used
Disk Tools II (a very helpful DA, worth its price) to look at their
info/startup setting. The ones that loaded in the system had Inited,
Bundled, and Never switch launch fields turned on. But the above three
also had their CACHED field turned on. So I had to turn them off and
everything is loading fine since. Disk Tools II lets you do some of
the things that you can do with ResEdit.
I never thought the startup screen can conflict with anything, and so I
did not move that during my "Process of elemination." I hope this info
comes in handy to some more people. Bye.
Haseen.
PS: I came accross this line in the book called "Inside the Apple
Macintosh" by Peter NORTON!! and Jim Heid (I am not sure about the
co-author). It is in page 49, 3rd paragraph.
"If you have used the IBM PC, you might think of the finder
as a very sophisticated, college-educated version of MS-DOS'
COMMAND.COM processor, which displays the DOS prompt and
interprets your typed commands."
I know I am biased about the Mac, but how can I argue with a guru.