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From: swgraham@siskowit.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Use of Apple Memory Exp. Card and Applwks
Message-ID: <11@siskowit.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 11:55:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: siskowit.11
Posted: Tue May  5 11:55:30 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 8-May-87 01:00:24 EDT
References: <3133@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>
Organization: Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
Lines: 31
Keywords: Poor Documentation
Summary: Try using a RAM disk

In article <3133@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>, ix200@sdcc6.UUCP writes:
> One of the departments I work for recently bought about 20 of
> Apple's new memory expansion cards.  I spent several fruitless
> hours trying to get Appleworks to run on the card without success.
> I called my friendly local technician who promised to get to Apple
> and find out how to use the thing.  He didn't get back to me so I
> called around and found one interesting little known fact -- you
> must have the latest version of Appleworks for the card to
> recognize the program and run.  Since the department bought the
> machinery and the programs years ago (version 1.0) it wouldn't 
> run.  Not nice.  

I haven't had any experience with Apple's memory cards, but I have 
used one of AE's cards. I find that an easy way to use this card
with AppleWorks is to configure the card as a RAM disk, and load
all of AppleWorks into /RAM. This doesn't give you an expanded desktop,
but it does speed up the program considerably because your not going
to the floppy disk all the time.

Versions 1.0 through 1.2 don't require any modifications to be loaded
on /RAM. Version 2.0 will automatically load on an Apple card, but
it needs a patch to load on a non-Apple card. The program
"Super MacroWorks" (from Beagle Brothers) contains such a patch.

Another remark is that Apple did have an upgrade program for AppleWorks.
For $50, you could upgrade from Version 1.x to 2.0. However, I beleive
that this program expired on April 30.


Sid Graham
Michigan Tech