On Sep 18, 9:38 pm, "ict@ccess"<gids...@sasktel.net> wrote:
KP wrote:
A few questions about RAM cards:
1) The Oxen Industries (now remarketed by MC Pricebusters) "Super
Expander E" is marketed as a clone of the AE RAMWorks card. However,
I am concerned that the Super Expander E would not be recognized by
non-AppleWorks programs (the card comes with software for patching AW,
but not for patching other software). Is the Super Expander E
unrecognized by other software that would normally recognize an AE
RAMWorks card? e.g., CP/AM, some of the Beagle Bros. programs that
utilize expanded RAM, etc.?
2) Can you use both a RAMFactor and an Aux card at once in a //e?
Would the total available RAM reflect both cards, or just one card?
3) Can you use both a RAMFactor and a Mem-slot card at once in a
IIgs? Would the total available RAM reflect both cards, or just one
card?
4) If you used an 8-Meg Mem-slot card and a 1-Meg RAMFactor
simultaneously in a IIgs, then would the total available RAM be 9 Meg
(or nearly 10 Meg in a ROM 03)?
Thanks!
You can have more than one memory card plugged in but only one can be
used for expansion RAM in appleworks and the other as a RAM drive or
you can have two RAM drives.
A Ramfactor card can never be used as expansion RAM for programs, only
as a data storage media.
Rob
Not totally true. AppleWorks 3 and higher will automatically work some
voodoo to make a larger AppleWorks desktop with whatever free memory
it finds in a RamFactor (or any Slinky-style) card. For example, if
you have an empty 1 MB RamFactor, AW3 will report a Desktop size in
the 900KB range. However, if you fill up a 1MB RamFactor with about
750KB of stuff, then AW3 reports a Desktop size around 250KB or so.
All through college, I ran a //e with a 1MB RamFactor loaded up as a
ramdisk with about 750KB of stuff like ProDOS, AW3 and lots of Timeout
stuff, ProTerm, ProSel, and some development tools. I would leave it
on for weeks at a time to keep the ramdisk populated, and I still had
a large AW3 desktop even though I only had an extended 80-column card
in the AUX Slot.
Today, that //e now has a 1MB RamWorks III card in addition to the 1MB
RamFactor card. When I load up the RamFactor with its 750KB of stuff
and run AW3, AW's Desktop is now close to 1MB. Conclusion: when AW3
and later finds both an AUX-Slot memory card and a Slinky memory card,
it will use the AUX-Slot card's memory for desktop expansion.
As I recall from my time at Beagle, AW3 can only use one memory card
for memory expansion.