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

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On Oct 3, 10:24 pm, appleworks51@yahoo.com wrote:
> 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

I had so much stuff installed on my version of AW3 as well that I did
not know what came with the original disks.  So I got out my original
AW3 and it found the extra memory no problem with RamWorks III also.
The appleworks expander disks I have also give these extra options.

- increased DB Records
- increased WP lines
- save a file across multiple disk drives
- optional print buffer
- optional clock display

Once installed, to get to this control panel you have to hold down
option-apple during startup of Appleworks.

On the note of copying AppleWorks to a RAM disk,  I have 4 Ramfactor
cards on different computers that I would like to get the Ramkeeper
power pack for them.  Does anyone have a Ramkeeper for sale or at
least can give me the voltages for the pinouts?