Re: AppleWorks 3 + RamFactor + RamWorks 3 = what?

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Boot the AppleWorks 3 startup disk (backup copy). Get to the Main
Menu, then select 5. Other Activities. Then select 6. Select Standard
Settings.

Then select 1. Change Preloading. Setting preloading to a high setting
instead of "None" will load AppleWorks into memory AND give you a very
large desktop on the AUX Ram card.

I honestly don't remember if AppleWorks 3 needed a Ram Driver to
initialize the AUX Ram disk, or if AppleWorks 3 and SEG.AM took care
of that itself. If it does need a Ram driver, the ones on ProSel 8 are
preferred over the Applied Engingeering ProDrive.

That said, never mind what I just said. There is a better way to run
AppleWorks on a //e or //c with an AUX memory card. I wrote about it
at great length in my articles and newsletters. It is called
"Installing AppleWorks 3.0 on a Ramdisk using ProSel 8 and
Partition"  (c) 1991 (and earlier and later) by Beverly Cadieux, with
acknowledgement and thanks to John Intondi and Rick Oshlo.

Once the boot disk is set up and booted from a 3.5" disk drive, the
Prosel Ram Driver sets up the ramdisk in the size you want - you set
this with AE's Partition. Then ProSel, AppleWorks 3, 4, 5, or whatever
you have, including all TimeOuts, patches, and other accessories, are
copied into /Ram. It takes a few minutes to load, then you land at the
ProSel menu. From ProSel's menu, you select AppleWorks, and it all
runs lightning fast because you are working from /Ram (just like a
hard drive but much, much faster; in fact you do not even need a hard
drive with this setup).  Nothing overruns each other because you have
set a partitioned Ram disk.

When you make changes to the Ramdisk contents, you must back it up so
that the changes are available in future cold/warm startups.

 After you tinker with it for a while (months.... years...),
eventually you will establish a super-fast setup which I use on my AUX
and Slinky //c's to this day. I also use the setup on one of my IIGS's
which has only 1024k memory (on the IIGS, the Control panel setting
sets the ram disk so no Ram Driver is necessary.).

If you would like a copy of my article, please  e-mail me, with your
U.S. postal mailing address.  It is long and complicated, but well
worth the effort once it is done.  Please use my e-mail address "A2MG
at AOL.com" to e-mail me, because I'll probably miss anything sent to
the e-mail address at Yahoo.

You'll also need ProSel 8 (which I have), and the Applied Engineering
software containing the Partition program (which I have) - OR - a
later version of SPELLCOPY by Randy Brandt (which I have), which
contains the AE Partition program with AE's permission.

Gary Utter (I believe it was he) wrote an article years ago about
putting both an AUX and a Slinky into a //c.  If that article is still
around, I would start searching the A2-Central newsletters (the
ORIGINAL A2-Central, originally called Open-Apple).

Beverly Cadieux
TEXAS II an International Newsletter for users of AppleWorks(R) 5.1