AppleWorks on II Plus

[casa@unm.edu (Jim Pittman)]

Dare I post an actual non-flaming Apple II query to this newsgroup?
It's about PlusWorks and AppleWorks running on an Apple II Plus.

In addition to several Apple IIgs systems and a IIe and a IIc+, I
have an old reliable (circa 1980) Apple II Plus. It is rather well
loaded: latest revision motherboard, AE Transwarp, Videx Ultraterm,
Videx Enhancer II (keyboard enhancer), Practical Peripherals printer
buffer card and of course an Apple 16-K card. The Enhancer II gives
this machine unique capabilities that I don't wish to give up by
moving _all_ my work to the newer Apple IIs.

I bought a 20-meg Focus drive for the IIe and found that it will
work in slot 7 of the II Plus. I have a 1-meg "flipster" card that
could go in slot 2 or 4 of the II Plus (this card, when installed
in a IIe, is recognized as 1-meg of usable memory by AppleWorks).
Long ago I bought the PlusWorks program and tried to get AppleWorks
1.3 to run on the II Plus - it didn't work out because I had no hard
drive or memory expansion for the II Plus at the time.

Having a Focus hard drive (I got another one for the IIe) and the
1-meg memory card prompted me to get a copy of AppleWorks 2.0, in
the expectation that finally I would be able to put a really useful
ProDOS application on the II Plus.

So far I haven't been able to get PlusWorks to work with AW 2.0.

Is there anybody out there who has tried to use PlusWorks-modified
AppleWorks 2.0 on a II Plus? If so, can it really be made to work?
Is it really useful? Should it recognize a flipster 1-meg card?

I don't "need" to do this, but it would be neat if I could. So far
I have found _no_ useful ProDOS applications (other than certain
versions of Copy II Plus) that will run from a hard drive on a
II Plus, leaving me stuck using two or three DOS 3.3 applications
from 5.25" drives.

Thanks for any comments.

- Jim Pittman - AppleQuerque Computer Club - casa at unm dot edu