Re: RAM cards for IIe

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

Martin Doherty asked:

>Do you know if the Q-RAM IIe is softswitch-compatible with Apple's 1MB 
>AUX RAM card, or the RAMWorks series from Applied Engineering, or do 
>each of these card families employ their own home-grown control methods 
>that make software compatibility a PITA? (I assign a 99% probabiliity to 
>the latter, but thought I'd ask).
>
>Would anyone care to do a knowledge dump about the various AUX RAM 
>cards, how they work, how common applications can take advantage of them 
>etc.?
>
>I suppose they MUST conform to Apple's specification to some extent at 
>least, if only to support DHRG?

Correct.

And all later models, like the Q-RAM, conform to the RAMWorks extended
standard, since it established a _de facto_ bank-switching extension to
Apple's standard.

If there are any exceptions, it would be interesting to hear about them.

-michael

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