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From: huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Problems for a new IIGS user
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Date: 11 Nov 89 01:42:06 GMT
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In article <1134@godot.radonc.unc.edu> rosenman@godot.UUCP (Julian Rosenman) writes:


>1) If you boot up GS/OS and click on BASIC.SYSTEM you then go into
>the AppleSoft environment. How do you get back to the OS without
>rebooting the system? 

Executing the "PRODOS" system file should get you back into GS/OS.
Type "-PRODOS" from within Basic.


>2) Why can't GS/OS read DOS 3.3 files and just display them like
>ProDos files? Is there a utility that does this, or do I have to
>convert them all to ProDos 16 to view them on the desk top?

I guess GS/OS can't do it because DOS 3.3 is "outdated" and not supported.
I don't know if there's a GS/OS utility that will display DOS 3.3
files, but there are several programs that let you convert 3.3 files
to ProDOS, like Copy II Plus.  I'm sure Prosel does this too.


>3) What programming language is recommended for the IIGS? AppleSoft is
>clearly inadequate as it does not support the sound chip, super hires
>screen, tool box, extended memory etc. Do any of the commercial
>BASIC's support these things? Which would you recommend?

There are a lot of new BASICs for the IIgs.  Micol Advanced BASIC is
actually a compiler, but it supports the IIgs.  I haven't ever used
it; I'm looking at a write-up of it in the May 1989 Nibble magazine.

Assembly language is pretty widely used, but Pascal is becoming
popular too.  All of the newer programming packages (TML Pascal, APW 
assembler and C, and ORCA assembler and C) support the IIgs.  There
isn't really a recommended language; use whatever you're most 
comfortable with.


Hope this helps...



Howard C. Huang
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