Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!pro-novapple.UUCP!daveharv From: daveharv@pro-novapple.UUCP (System Administrator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Apple IIGS system Disk 3.2 Message-ID: <8809130736.AA13446@crash.cts.com> Date: 13 Sep 88 01:54:29 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: pnet01!pro-mars!pro-charlotte!pro-novapple!daveharv@nosc.mil Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 >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