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Re: Appleworks

In article <5qjd7g$hei$1@news.injersey.com>,
Karl  Horster <khorster@injersey.com> wrote:

[re making an AW5 disk from a GS to a IIc+]

>The //c+ I get to the Appleworks title screen and it locks just
>before it would as for the date....any clues?

   This is only a guess, but I'd suspect that it's probably looking
for its driver files to talk to expansion ram. Because Apple went with
the half-baked solution of bankswitched memory for the //e's AUX slot,
'slinky' access for slots 1-7, GS's flat memory, and a few other cards
hard their own standard, AW had to have various driver files for
addressing the various memory types. [Apple had a very nice expansion
ram scheme for the III, but that's one of the things they stupidly
threw away to make the //e as close to the ][+ as possible] Check
the AW5 manual for a listing of what files to put on IIc+ disk.

   Also, AW5's a RAM hog; I think it may be wanting 256K ram. AW3's
about the last one that ran decently well on a 128K machine.

Nathan Mates
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