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From: ganzer@nosc.NOSC.MIL (Mark T. Ganzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: APPLEWORKS on an APPLE II Plus
Message-ID: <616@nosc.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 5 Apr 88 15:16:39 GMT
References: <5490@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <5490@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, aehl@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Donald J Aehl) writes:
> Could anyone please explain what I would have to do to get APPLEWORKS to
> run on my Apple II+.  I realize that I might have to purchase an earlier
> release of Appleworks (1.3 perhaps?)  Yet, I am not certain of this.
> 
> Put simply, I would like to know what the cheapest meathod is for getting
> Appleworks to run on a II+ (for the least pmount of money.
> 

The cheapest way to go would be to buy an inexpensive 128K RAM card
($70 in the latest Jameco sales flyer) and the Plus-Works program ($40,
and also available from Jameco)
which will adapt any version of Appleworks up to 2.0 to run on a II, II+ 
or Franklin. It gives you the open-apple commands by using a user-
defined prefix key, then hitting another key
(requires 2 keystrokes instead of one). Actually, with Plus-Works,
you can run on a 64K II+, but it only gives you a 10K desktop to work with.
With the 128K card, you have a 132K desktop available. 

I went this route with my Franklin and it's worked fine. For app. $125
more, you can get an Apple RAM-card clone w/ 256K and have a bigger desktop
and have the ability to expand out to 1MB. Plus-Works will also support
this configuration, plus allow you to load Appleworks into a RAMdisk to
speed things up.
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