Re: Appleworks 5 on IIc+

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Bill wrote:

>Simon Williams <email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com> wrote in message
>news:1gmrreq.qh4qkflav28N%email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com...
>> A while back I tried running AW5 on my IIc+ without success... someone
>> here pointed out that it requires 256K of memory just to load the
>> program...
>> I've since installed a 1 Meg card in the IIc+, but Appleworks still
>> refuses to run (gets to the first screen, which is all gibberish and
>> freezes)... anyone have any ideas?
>> BTW, I'm using the 'publicly available' version of AW5 which comes with
>> all the Timeout stuff already installed... could any of that be the
>> problem? The same disks work flawlessly on the IIgs.
>> Also, I've tested the RAM card and there doesn't seem to be any problems
>> in that area...
>
>Simon,
>
>The largest base ram Apple II has 128K. The smallest IIgs has 256K.
>Simple deduction. Now, as for the ram cards for the IIc, they work
>like the Slinky card. As a drive, or a ramdisk, but not as base ram.

But when the IIgs is running an 8-bit program, like Appleworks, it
has only 128KB of "standard" (meaning main and AUX bank) memory,
too.

The problem is that Appleworks has multiple memory managers for
different implementations of extra memory.  You want the RAMWorks-
type of extension for your IIc+, while the images you have apparently
are configured with the IIgs memory manager.

-michael

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