Re: Ramworks III questions?

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Trevor J. Mahan <tjmahanNOSPAM@earthlink.net> wrote:
: I need some help with a ramworks II and III cards I acquired at a flea
: market.  No disks, but did have a manual.  I stripped the chips of the II
: and filled out the III fully.  I plug it in to my enhanced to IIe and fire
: it up.  No problems.  But I want to find out how much memory I actually
: have.  The only disk I have is a Prodos User's disk for IIe and 64k II+.  It
: has ProDos 1.0 based utilities and lists slots plus available memory.  It
: reads 128k and 80 column expansion card under slot 3.  I should have 1MB or
: 1024K with the card filled out so, I pop it out--maybe card is bad--fill
: Ramworks II card with chips and it says the same.  I pop in the original 80
: column card and it reads the same.  Help!!!  What am I doing wrong?  The
: manual mentions diskettes that came with the Ramworks cards which will do
: diagnostics but I don't have them.  Can someone make me backup copies?

This is happening because the aux slot bank switching style memory expansion
never had support from Apple. Hence you have to patch some software or use
extra software to get a RAM disk with it. Later software e.g. Appleworks 3.0
and up and ProTERM 3.0/3.1 support the memory as is. The memory test software
which should have came with the card would be handy too.

BTW ProDOS 1.0 and utilities is like massively out of date these days.
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