Re: Presence of a IIc memory card

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

penman@no-spam-cotse.com wrote:
> Don't forget the freeware program Slotscan.  It'll show you the
> specifics of any Apple II computer, including the type and amount
> of memory, the type of cards in the computer if applicable (if they
> have ROMs that is--a quickie card doesn't register) and gives you
> the option of printing out the results for your records.  I know it's
> on Trenco, and I believe I saw it on Ground too.  It's a nice little
> utility.

I doubt this would help. The later //c's (Rom 3 and ROM 4) that have
the expansion connector would report the presence of the ram card
anyway even if it wasn't there, and the ROM 3 model (I think...) has
a firmware bug which will cause it to report the memory card as populated
even if it isn't. This won't happen on the last //c (ROM 4) or the IIc
plus.

If the machine has a Z-RAM or equivalent installed you won't be able
to detect this in this way since it's a slotless device. They mimic the
behavior of the //e Auxiliary ram cards like the RamWorks, and as such,
are only detectable by software that knows how to do it, for instance,
AppleWorks 3.0 and above.

A quick way would be the use of AE's ram test application, which would
detect a Z-RAM card. Not sure about the slinky card though. 

Either way you can't go wrong with AppleWorks 3.0+

Cheers,

Matt


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