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From: mccann@puff.UUCP
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Subject: Appli-Card/StarCard help needed
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 09:21:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 09:21:09 1985
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     I recently purchased the Wordstar/StarCard package for my //e.  My
only complaint is that the documentation did not include any specific
technical information about the StarCard (aka PCPI Appli-Card).  I'm hoping
that some of you good folk out there can help me by answering one or more
of the following questions (as my two letters to PCPI have gone unanswered):

	1. How can I access the Apple's main memory (specifically the
ROM routines) from the StarCard?  Does PCPI sell a technical reference
manual for the card that gives such useful tidbits?  If so, where do I
write to order it?  I am particularly interested in using Turbo Pascal
to access the memory; any pointers in that direction would also be
appreciated.

	2. How can I make use of the 64K on the StarCard as a RAMdisk
for use under ProDOS?  The CP/M utilities disk provided the program that
allowed the memory to be used as a RAMdisk under DOS 3.3, but did not
include a program to produce the same result under ProDOS.  I know that
ProDOS allows for the installation of new device drivers, but without
knowledge of how to access the StarCard's RAM, I can't get very far.

	3. Is there a way I can use the Apple's main memory as a RAMdisk
under CP/M?  Currently, after the CP/M disk finishes booting, I have a
82K printer buffer (which is nice, but I really don't need that large a
buffer).  Surely there must be a way of using some of that memory for a
RAMdisk.

     For those of you who are wondering, I am very happy with the card.
Watching Turbo 3.0 compile on that 6MHz Z-80 the first time is quite a thrill.

     Thanks in advance for your help.

						Lester McCann