Re: Lisa Test Program from Terry Stewart on 2011-03-24 (lisalist1)

From: Terry Stewart <terry_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:01:25 +1300

In my searching I found a ResEdit as a Window application here.

http://www.resedit.net/

It may be a completely different program with the same name?

terry

Original Message ----- From: Adam Rosen To: lisalist_at_email.domain.hidden Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Lisa Test Program

When was ResEdit available as a PC application, and why?

On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Mr Ian Primus wrote:

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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