Has anyone on the list had experience of the Lisa Test program? I
have a couple of faulty memory cards on my third Lisa and wonder if
this program will let me identify the exact chip(s) that might have
failed?
I'd expected to be playing with it myself by now but I've had no
success in getting it from the Internet onto a Mac Disk.
I've downloaded the following files from the mothership.
LisaTest_v3.0_1of2.archive.hqx
LisaTest_v3.0_1of2.archive.sit.hqx
LisaTest_v3.0_2of2.archive.hqx
LisaTest_v3.0_2of2.archive.sit.hqx
I'm PC based so the way I've normally transfered Mac Files to a real
MAC is to use a nice little program called TransMac. Dragging almost
any other HQX file downloaded from the Mothership into TransMac works
just fine. It decodes it into it's SIT or otherwise and writes it to
a Mac formatted floppy drive on the PC (which I then read in my
Classic II, unstuff then diskcopy onto a 400k formatted disk in an
800k external drive)....all except that is for the four files above?
Weird! Whenever I try to drag it onto the Mac disk via TransMac the
program says "Wrong type of file for this translation". Which means
it doesn't recognise it as a valid HQX. No other HQX files from there
has this problem except these Lisa Test ones?
I found some other ZIPPED versions of LisaTest disk images which I can
get to the Mac no problem but Disk Copy doesn't recognise these as
valid images. I'm assuming the fork has been lost somewhere.
Anyway, I'll appreciate any comments on this conundrum. Has anyone
successfully used these images and is the Lisa Test comprehensive
enough to identify the location of faulty RAM chips?
Thanks in advance!
Terry (Tez)