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Re: Counting Memory on II+ / IIe



In <Xns93456AF8B375nospamever@216.166.71.230> Intelligoth  wrote:
> Are there any utilities that allow you to display the installed amount 
> of RAM on an Apple II+ or IIe? I'm wanting something similar to a PC 
> BIOS Startup screen that counts and checks the RAM on boot-up.   I 
> know that I will have to incorporate it into the HELLO file for RAM to 
> be displayed on boot.
>
> Reason I ask is that I have a couple of Memory cards for my Apples but 
> don't know how much physical  RAM is installed on them.
>
> Also, I have Z80 cards for both my Apples, but what are these used for?  
> I never had Z80 expansions  installed back in the 80's when I cut my 
> teeth on these systems, but I've managed to find a box of spare  cards 
> from a local liquidator and included were 2 Z80s.
>
> Cheers
> -Ed
> 

There's a nifty utility called SlotScan which will tell you how much 
memory your computer has and what cards are present. It recognises at 
least some of the extended memory schemes and will even run on a 16KB 
Apple II.

<http://www.gno.org/pub/apple2/appledos33/system/>

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - FutureCop:LAPD - iMac Game Wizard
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
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