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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: GS/OS compatibility issues
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Date: 3 Mar 89 22:34:43 GMT
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>Date:         Fri, 3 Mar 89 00:18:33 GMT
>From:         Seymour Joseph <elbereth.rutgers.edu!joseph@RUTGERS.EDU>
>Subject:      GS/OS Compatability issues
>
>[...] Below is a list of some of the products I have purchased since
>I bought my GS.   NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM works properly when
>launched from GS/OS. [...]

(I haven't listed all the products Seymour did--just the ones I have
something to say about.)

>    Paintworks Gold (won't launch)

PaintWorks Gold requires nearly all of the memory available under
GS/OS on a 1.25 meg system.  It _does_ run for me under System Disk
4.0, but only with the RAMdisk set to 0 and with very few desk
accessories or other utilities installed.  If PWG can't allocate the
memory it needs, it just crashes with the title screen showing, which
is stupid.

> From Spectrum Holobyte   Tetris (won't quit back to GS/OS finder.)

That's odd--it quits back to the Finder for me, but it crashes if I
try to quit back to APW from it.  The problem:  Tetris shadows the
super hires screen from bank 1.  It correctly tries to allocate
$012000 to $019FFF for this purpose, but it ignores the error code
it receives if that memory was already in use; it uses it anyway.

>AppleLink Personal Edition comes with a long list of control panel
>settings that must be made in order to run it on a GS.  These include
>changing the PRINTER settings (I asked both Apple and Quantum why I
>have to change the printer settings and neither has been able to
>supply an adequate answer).

There is no need to change the printer port settings.  Just keep
them how you want them.  The instructions are wrong.

>Seymour Joseph   (joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu)
>Coordinator ACGNJ Apple II users Group
>Micro Facilities Manager, Rutgers University