alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) (04/10/89)
I have had a chance to checkout macworks+ 1.08 now for about a month. It is getting there and is very useable. It takes up too much of the Lisa's (Mac XL) memory to make any sensible use of multifinder which leads me on to the next part of the posting. Are there any Lisa boards that will accept mac+ 256k SIMMS. I'd like a 4Mbyte Lisa and have the SIMMS but no where to plug them (no rude suggestions please)? Anyway back to the report. Macworks+ 1.08 now uses 6.02 standard system files. It comes distributed on 800k floppies (Sun Remarketing say it will not fit on 400k and so cannot be used unless you have an 800k internal) Fooey to that!! Using a ramdisk (temporary) and a lot of disk swaps and a cut-down (no das/minimum fonts) system 6.02 I've installed 1.08 using a 400k internal and 10Mbyte Hard disk. Once installed the ramdisk and cut-down system are not necessary. Serial line A still behaves badly - when input arrives at high throughput rate on a 2400 baud line, it often starts autorepeating a single char outbound. The char it chooses to repeat seems random. This mode may be stopped by typing a single character. At startup, the keyboard seems to behave as if the option key is being pressed - a single press of this key at boot time, resets the keyboard. It's almost there guys - when are the fixes due? keep up the good work. --alen the lisa slayer (it's a long story) ...ucsd!ncr-sd!asdev2 alen