Re: AE Ramworks III

["David\\Julie Wilson" <cybrslider@home.com>]

Steve,

    So, I need a ramdriver to use it. And other ProDos software will use the
card as an ordinary 64K/80 column card. It will do this without the
ramdriver?

    I loaded up AppleWorks and it said I had 55K free memory. Does
AppleWorks use the auxiliary memory?

    Thanks!

David



"ground.ecn AppleII Librarian" <apple2pd@garp3.icaen.uiowa.edu> wrote in
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> In article <ZwxO6.2632$e6.16086@news1.rdc1.tx.home.com>,
> David\\Julie Wilson <cybrslider@home.com> wrote:
>
> >    I'm having trouble setting up a ramdisk with an AE Ramworks III card.
It
> >has 1 meg of memory. I looked in the system utilities manual to see what
it
> >said. It said to test the card you could boot without a disk, hit
> >control-esc, type call -151 press enter, type c40ag press enter (where 4
is
> >the slot number). Then it is supposed to say how long the test will take
and
> >start showing rows of dots indicating it is performing the test. When I
type
> >c40ag, I get nothing. When I type c30ag, I get lots of beeps and the
cursor
> >moving down the screen. I can't format it from ProDos. I've tried slots 3
> >and 4 and drives 1 and 2. It tells me no drive is present. The 80 column
> >portion works fine. From what I understand, ProDos needs the 80 column
card
> >to work anyway. And, I can activate it from basic with PR#3. What gives?
> >Thanks for the help!
>
> David, the instructions you have are for a AE Ramfactor card, not the
> Ramworks card.  The Aux memory is accessed vedry differently on the two
> types of cards. The Ramfactor has a ROM that can be accessed using the
> monitor.  The Ramworks has no ROM.
>
> As other have pointed out you need a ramdriver ( eg. Prodrive) to use the
> Ramworks as a ramdrive.  Selected software can utilize the full memory of
> the Ramworks.  Almost all other ProDos software will use the Ramworks as a
> 64k aux memory card.
>
>   --Steve
>
> --
>
>  --Steve  (apple2pd@ground.ecn.uiowa.edu)
>
>