Re: Appleworks 5 on IIc+

[email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com (Simon Williams)]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:

> Bill wrote:
> 
> >Simon Williams <email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com> wrote in message
> >news:1gmrreq.qh4qkflav28N%email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com...
> >> A while back I tried running AW5 on my IIc+ without success... someone
> >> here pointed out that it requires 256K of memory just to load the
> >> program...
> >> I've since installed a 1 Meg card in the IIc+, but Appleworks still
> >> refuses to run (gets to the first screen, which is all gibberish and
> >> freezes)... anyone have any ideas?
> >> BTW, I'm using the 'publicly available' version of AW5 which comes with
> >> all the Timeout stuff already installed... could any of that be the
> >> problem? The same disks work flawlessly on the IIgs.
> >> Also, I've tested the RAM card and there doesn't seem to be any problems
> >> in that area...
> >
> >Simon,
> >
> >The largest base ram Apple II has 128K. The smallest IIgs has 256K.
> >Simple deduction. Now, as for the ram cards for the IIc, they work
> >like the Slinky card. As a drive, or a ramdisk, but not as base ram.
> 
> But when the IIgs is running an 8-bit program, like Appleworks, it
> has only 128KB of "standard" (meaning main and AUX bank) memory,
> too.
> 
> The problem is that Appleworks has multiple memory managers for
> different implementations of extra memory.  You want the RAMWorks-
> type of extension for your IIc+, while the images you have apparently
> are configured with the IIgs memory manager.

That seems logical... I'll check into it.

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