Re: Presence of a IIc memory card

[Matt Jenkins <mdj@bilby.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:

> I have BeagleWrite 3.3 and tried it with a IIc with a 512k card
> and ended up with a similiar limit. So I tried a IIgs with 8mb RAM
> and the same deal. It occurred to me that possibly I missed
> something so I tried a IIe with both a 1mb RamWorks and a 1mb
> RamFactor and no luck there either. I'm guessing that the program
> has a 128k limit and you're stuck with it. Unless of course there's a
> later version I'm not aware of.

The only use a ram card will be for BeagleWrite is to load the software
into to speed it up (helps dramatically with the spell checker). I
ditched MultiScribe (as it was known back then) and went with AppleWorks
+ Timeout Super Fonts as my primary word processor. I'd recommend this
to anyone who likes to use IIe's/IIc's, it's a great setup when you've got
plenty of RAM or a decent secondary storage device.

If you've got your heart set on a graphical user interface, you might try
hunting down one of the other wordpro's that had a Mac like interface. One
that springs to mind is IIwrite, which may or may not have expanded memory
support. Another option would be to use one of the DTP programs like
Publish It! but to be honest, unless you have a 1mb machine with an
accelerator on board, I wouldn't bother with that.

I'm sure there are other GUI programs around, it's just that BeagleWrite
was probably the best known one.

Cheers,

Matt


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