Re: Ramworks III questions?

[edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSapple2.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 00:38:53 -0700, "Trevor J. Mahan"
<tjmahanNOSPAM@earthlink.net> wrote:

>I need some help with a ramworks II and III cards I acquired at a flea
>market.

I've got a similar RAM card--ask me :)

>No disks, but did have a manual.

If you're at least a semi-power user, you'll want the disks.  You
probably won't care about the one that modifies AppleWorks version 1.3
or so, but you probably WILL want the diagnostics and RAMdisk "driver"

>The only disk I have is a Prodos User's disk for IIe and 64k II+.  It
>has ProDos 1.0 based utilities and lists slots plus available memory.  It
>reads 128k and 80 column expansion card under slot 3.

I'm surprised that that program functions THAT well!  It's very old.

>I should have 1MB or
>1024K with the card filled out so, I pop it out--maybe card is bad--fill
>Ramworks II card with chips and it says the same.  I pop in the original 80
>column card and it reads the same.  Help!!!  What am I doing wrong?


>The manual mentions diskettes that came with the Ramworks cards which will
>do diagnostics but I don't have them.  Can someone make me backup copies?

I'm not sure if my RamFactor disks were made for the RFIII, but I can
still email you the disks in ShrinkIt format.  I've seen the disks
that go with the Q-RAM card (similar to the RamFactor) available
somewhere in ftp://tarnover.dyndns.org/cabi/ , and those disks may
work for you.  You may also like RAMup, available on the same site.
RAMdisk "drivers" tend to be version specific--the ones that came with
my RAM card only work with ProDOS 1.1.1, so you may also be limited to
older versions of ProDOS when you want to use your RAM as a RAMdisk.  

Email me if ya need something.