I am not sure why deleting a page break in AppleWorks for the #IIgs can reliably reproduce this error message.
But, I can say that I do love that I am presented with a second option.
("OTHER button" sadly does nothing. It would be even more entertaining if it did something.)
The IIgs has been shut down, and upon coming back up again everything is still running the way it should be. Lends credence to my idea that it was the voltage running low on the backup battery.
For all four of you out there running an Apple #IIgs:
- It looks like the computer starts acting wonky when the backup battery voltage drops to around 2.9V.
- For my makeshift battery made up of two alkaline AA cells, that took approximately 2 years.
Argh. My Apple #IIgs just decided to give me a scare. I switched it on and it wouldn't boot from any disk (BlueSCSI or FloppyEmu), going directly to the boot menu.
The boot settings were all as I'd left them (time and date, boot slot etc.), but I opened it up to check the ROM battery anyway.
My IIgs came to me with the old lithium cell cut out, and I've replaced that with a pair of AA alkaline cells. Don't worry, they sit on the floor of the case, can't ever leak onto anything.
I can attest that Time Pilot for the Apple #IIgs is great.
I am very reluctant to mess with working software, so it was only after half a year that I updated surl-server and associated applications for my Apple #IIgs.
@colin_mcmillen, did all your work with the Quicktake cameras and image rendering carry over to the Mastodon for Apple II client? I would swear that the posted photographs look much better, with more accurate color approximation and dithering.
(Warning: this is going to be dumb)
The Apple #IIgs is like the Nintendo #WiiU
- massively upgraded CPU, graphics, and sound over its predecessor
- expanded and improved online capability
- maintained full backwards compatibility with previous generation software and accessories
- abandoned too early by its manufacturer, which decided to support a different product line
- still being patiently hacked and developed for by a small but devoted fan base
Source: I own and use both.
I’m surprised the Apple IIgs community hasn’t created a “Samuel Clemens” logic board design to allow people to make an “Apple IIgs+” like the “Mark Twain” prototypes using existing IIgs (and other) parts.
I picked up an Apple II SCSI Card off of eBay, sold "untested." It was cheap, and the photos made it look to be in good shape.
It has exactly one electrolytic capacitor, and it didn't look to be leaking but I was still wary. After desoldering it, it tested fine, but I already had a replacement in hand.
I tried it in my Apple #IIgs, with my external #BlueSCSIv2. There were no fireworks, but it didn't want to boot off of the drive image: "UNABLE TO LOAD PRODOS". I'll poke at it again soon.
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