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Charlie's AppleSeeds
9081 Hadley Pl
San Diego, CA 92126
Phone: 619-566-0387
NA few months ago I read an article in either InCider or A+ wherein the author M
Kdiscussed the memory expansion boards available and the expansion software N
Lfor AppleWorks. I stated that these products made for a bigger AppleWorks, P
Nbut if you expected them to speed up AppleWorks, forget it. He said that all 7
you really got was a bigger bucket to carry files in.
HWhat the author failed to mention was that, at least in the case of RAM P
Nexpansion from Applied Engineering and Checkmate Technology, you get software N
Lutilities, besides the expansion software, that allows you to partition the K
IRAM memory so that you can load AppleWorks and other ProDOS applications N
Lprograms into RAM and still have a large AppleWorks desktop. The advantage P
Nis that the applications programs such as AppleWorks operate much faster from
the RAM disk.
KWith Checkmate Technology's product, you simply copy certain programs in a L
Jcertain order, then copy the AppleWorks or other ProDOS programs to disks M
Kused for setup, then boot this special disk and copy everything into RAM. 9
More precise instructions will follow in another issue.
JWith Applied Engineering, the setup process is more complicated and their P
Nmanual is not as clear as this lay person needed. At any rate, I finally got M
Kthe RAM driver setup and working, and after all the hours of trouble I had F
Ddoing this, I figured some other people would like to have a set of "
procedures to follow so read on!
First thing to make life easier, write a STARTUP program in basic such as:
10 CHR$ (4);"-PRODRIVE" or: 10 CHR$ (4);"-PRODRIVE"D
20 CHR$ (4);"BYE" 20 CHR$ (4);"-UTIL.SYSTEM"
MWhen you boot the disk you will be creating, the BASIC.SYSTEM file will find J
Hthis startup program and run PRODRIVE and then send you to your program M
Kselector, assuming that: 1. you have a version of ProDOS that supports the K
IBYE command; and 2. that you have MacroWorks or AutoWorks which have the L
JBirds Better Bye in the ProDOS system file or some other program selector O
Msystem file. PRODRIVE is Applied Engineering's RAM disk program. Save this N
Lstartup program to a fresh disk. The alternate startup program establishes I
Gthe RAM disk and runs the COPYII+ program, instead of sending you to a
program selector.
M 1. Copy ProDOS & BASIC.SYSTEM to your STARTUP disk and UTIL.SYSTEM, if
you own COPYII+.
L 2. Copy PRODRIVE, and if you don't have COPYII+, AUTOCOPY AND GET.LEN I
Gfrom your AppleWorks Expansion software disk that you got from Applied $
Engineering, to your startup disk.
N 3. Copy all of the AppleWorks programs from the AppleWorks Startup disk
to your new Startup disk.
N 4. Copy all of the Appleworks programs from the AppleWorks Program disk O
Mto the backside of your Startup disk if you are using a double sided disk or
another disk, if not.
M 5. Run the AppleWorks expansion software and modify your AppleWorks to N
Lrecognize the RAM expansion board. If you are using AutoWorks, set options
during expansion as follows:
Auto load - Yes
Print Buffer - No
Time Option - Yes
H 6. After expansion is completed, run the Prodrive options from the I
Expansion software and change PRODRIVE's slot/drive to Slot 7, Drive 1.
L 7. From the same menu, run Applied Engineerings Partition program and N
Lestablish the size of your RAM Drive. I recommend that you have 1mb on the O
Mmemory board and that you partition 512k in each partition. This allows you K
Ito expand AppleWorks and add on such other programs as PinPoint with its O
MSpeller. You can also put other programs, such as MultiScribe, SuperCalc 3a O
Mor the PinPoint Document Checker in the RAM disk, provided that you make the
RAM drive big enough.
K To run the Partition Program, select quit to Basic from the AE menu. J
HFrom the Basic cursor, type -PARTITION and when prompted, select "A" to L
Jmodify AppleWorks. When asked for the ProDOS pathname of your AppleWorks O
Mprogram, be sure and type: /disk name/PRODRIVE on the first prompt and /disk O
Mname/APLWORKS.SYSTEM at the second prompt. If you do not use the "/" as the P
Nleading character of your path name, the Partition program will not work, but K
Ithe error message is too vague to catch what it is telling you. In this I
Gprocedure, /disk name equals the name of the volume that contains your P
NAppleWorks programs. Be sure and remember that both sides of your AppleWorks P
Ndisk must have the same volume name. To speed things here, I use AW1.3 which N
Lshortens the ProDOS path that I must remember and tells me which version of
AppleWorks I am using.
K 8. When you have completed these seven steps, test your disk to make ?
sure that everything you want the disks to do work correctly.
L 9. If you are using AutoWorks, run this program next. If you are not M
Kusing AutoWorks, stop everything and run out and buy it. When you get the P
Nmenu screen, first, select the bank to load AutoWorks into from item 2 on the P
Nmenu. If you are not using PinPoint, select bank 3, the first blank block on P
Nthis screen. If you are going to use PinPoint, select a middle bank, such as K
Ibank 5. Do not use bank 10. Go ahead and update the AppleWorks startup
program APLWORKS.SYSTEM.
N 10. If you followed step 9, then, using a copy program such as COPYII+, N
Lcopy the Macros file from AutoWorks to your new startup disk, and rename it
TURNKEY.
L 11. Test your setup disk. If successful, bring your TURNKEY onto the I
GAppleWorks desktop and change the "key name" of the catalog macro from J
H"Closed Apple - C" to some other key name, as it will not work with the 1
closed apple C under AE's AppleWorks expansion.
J 12. If you plan to use PinPoint and the PinPoint Speller, configure L
Jthese programs, following your manuals instructions. When asked where to ?
find the accessories, select ProDOS pathname and type in /RAM
K 13. Modify your APLWORKS.SYSTEM program. Be sure to save sufficient G
Eroom on the new startup disk for PinPoints modification. When done, 4
APLWORKS.SYSTEM will take approximately 73 blocks.
L 14. TEST your startup disk. Shut of your computer, then turn it back P
Non with the Startup side of your startup disk in drive one. If you are using N
LUTIL.SYSTEM, run this program from the program selector and copy both sides L
Jof your new disk into Slot 7, Drive 1 (your RAM drive). If you are using O
MPinPoint, copy the accessories into the RAM and if you use PinPoint Speller, L
Jcopy the Dictionary and Aux.Dict.S and Speller.PP to RAM. Quite the copy N
Lprogram and select APLWORKS.SYSTEM from the program selector menu and go to
work.