Re: Lisa Test Program

From: Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:30:40 -0700 (PDT)

You need the Macintosh version - you have to create the resource forks on the Mac.

I found my little sticky-note with the magic type/creator codes - dImg and dCpy

-Ian

• On Thu, 3/24/11, Terry Stewart <terry_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> From: Terry Stewart <terry_at_email.domain.hidden>
> Subject: Re: Lisa Test Program
> To: lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden
> Date: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 7:19 PM
> Thanks for those comments everyone,
>
> Just a clarification on ResEdit.  I've found the
> program on the Web.  There seems to be a Windows and a
> Mac version though?  Which one are you reffering to
> Ian?  Should I re-fork the image once I've got it to
> the Mac Classic II, or on my Windows PC before I transport
> it there?
>
> Cheers
>
> Terry
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mr Ian Primus" <ian_primus_at_email.domain.hidden>
> To: <lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden>
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 1:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Lisa Test Program
>
>
> --- On Thu, 3/24/11, tezza <terry_at_email.domain.hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> If you have a disk image where the resource fork has been
> whacked, you can use ResEdit to fix it. Simply use ResEdit,
> and open a good DiskCopy image, then view the file type
> information (from one of the dropdown menus in ResEdit).
> Write down the creator type and file type codes (from
> memory, dCpy and something else). Close that file and open
> your forkless file. ResEdit will prompt you, saying it's
> creating a resource fork for this file. Say OK. Then, view
> the file type info, and type the creator type codes into the
> box. Save the file, and then DiskCopy will see it.
>
> On the subject of LisaTest, I haven't fully figured
> everything about it out. For example, I have no idea what
> the purpose of Disk 2 is. Disk 1 boots, but disk 2 does not,
> and it won't mount under the office system. I've never had
> the test program ask for disk 2. Perhaps because I've never
> had it test a profile?
>
> I don't know how to get it to help you identify failed RAM
> chips, as the Lisa won't boot if you have a bad memory board
> - or rather, I've never tried. I have two memory boards that
> are so clobbered that even if you put it in slot 2, they
> cause the two-beep error and a scrambled screen. I have one
> that just fails the memory test, but I don't think I've
> tried to get the machine to boot past that point.
>
> -Ian
>
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