Re: Ramworks III and making Appleworks recognize it

[Tom Zuchowski <cd003508@interramp.com>]

gkomatsu@Hawaii.Edu (Galen Tatsuo Komatsu) wrote:
>	this afternoon I picked up an old //e (for dirt) mostly because
>when I popped the lid, there was an AE Ramworks III smiling up at me
>(along with a Micromodem//e, Mouse interface, and some other goodies)
>Anyways, first, what is the RWIII capable of, other than 80-column
>capability and lotsa sheep^H^H^H^H^Hmemory under the hood.  What is the
>maximum capacity of the card (currently 16 of the 32 sockets are filled)
>
>	Second, how can Appleworks regocnize the extra memory, I assume
>it's able to somehow (I'm running Appleworks 2.0)  I tried to just boot
>it up, but was only greeted with "56K Available".

The RamWorks III can take up to 1MB of RAM and supports up to an 
additional 2MB of RAM on a piggyback card that mounts to that row of pins.

AE sold a patch disk to get Appleworks to recognize the RAM.

I STRONGLY suggest that you upgrade to Appleworks 3.0, which not 
only recognizes the RWIII card, but has about 7 million major improvements 
over 2.0.

TomZ