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AppleWorks Document
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1987-09-15
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Charlie's AppleSeeds
9081 Hadley Pl
San Diego, CA 92126
Phone: 619-566-0387
Apr 8, 1987
N[THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS AN UPDATE TO MY ARTICLE CHECKMATE.EVAL ON TAWUG P
NDISK 45 AND CAN BE INSERTED, WITH SOME DUPLICATION, AT APPROXIMATELY LINE 106
AS ORIGINALLY FORMATTED.]
NRather than configure an AppleWorks startup disk so that you must always open O
Mthe RAMdisk, you can copy a BASIC.SYSTEM file (I use the one on my AutoWorks M
Kdisk) and the most current version of ProDOS (also from my AutoWorks disk) Q
Othat you can find, one that provides the "BYE" command, to your startup disk. 3
Then write a one line STARTUP program as follows:
10 PRINT CHR$(4);"BYE"
SAVE STARTUP
FWhen you have these three files on a fresh disk, copy MRAM.SYSTEM and P
NLOADMRAM.SYSTEM to the disk, then copy all of the AppleWorks startup programs O
Mto that disk. Copy all of the main AppleWorks programs to the other side or L
Jto a second disk, if using single sided disks. When this disk boots, you O
Mwill get the Program Selector, if you have one that is in a modified ProDOS, O
Mor the ProDOS path structure if not. I recommend a program selector of some N
Lsort. The "Bird's Better Bye" referred to in MacroWorks or the same ProDOS P
Nfile on AutoWorks (written by Alan Bird) is worth most of the price of either P
Nprogram. If you have some other program selector, you may have to modify the
STARTUP program such as:
10 PRINT CHR$(4);"-PROGRAM.SELECTOR"
SAVE STARTUP
LIn this program, use the name of your program selector program. The "-" is B
@the ProDOS smart command for RUN, i.e., -PROGRAM.SELECTOR = RUN I
GPROGRAM.SELECTOR. Also, you can save some time if your use the ? mark K
Iinstead of PRINT. In Basic, the computer accepts ? in lieu of PRINT and (
automatically converts the ? to PRINT.
IIf you have a program selector installed, this procedure, takes about 90 N
Lseconds from the time you boot the disk until you arrive at the menu option J
H"Start AppleWorks." This is faster than booting the standard Checkmate O
Mexpanded AppleWorks, which takes over two minutes to load if you load all of O
MAppleWorks. Other than saving over 30 seconds, when you first startup, with M
Kall of AppleWorks in the RAMdisk, AppleWorks applications work faster, and N
Lyou do not have to load the AppleWorks overlays because they are already in 0
the RAMdisk and work faster than ordinarily.
EYou could also load your data files into the RAMdisk at startup, and M
KLOADMRAM.SYSTEM is a very fast disk to RAMdisk copy utility, and then add, J
Hchange, swap files from the RAMdisk to the AppleWorks desktop extremely L
Jquickly. BE SURE TO CHANGE THE DRIVE LOCATION AND SAVE YOUR UPDATED DATA O
FILES BACK TO FLOPPY DISK FROM TIME TO TIME AND BEFORE QUITTING FOR THE DAY. N
LIf you have AutoWorks, you do all of these things with macros. By the way, N
Lwith Checkmate's memory expansion, expanded AppleWorks really becomes super N
Lfast with AutoWorks added. Once AppleWorks is loaded, I use disk drive one M
Kas a data disk, as the Apple never looks there for AppleWorks, even when I
quite AppleWorks for the day.
IIf you do not have a program selector yet and do not have or do not want O
MAutoworks or MacroWorks, I recommend one called SQUIRT. I first learned of ~K
Ithis program when I got my /AUTORAM SYSTEM program from Checkmate. Both M
KSQUIRT and /AUTORAM SYSTEM (a ProDOS file Transfer Utility disk) are super F
Dprograms when using large memory boards. To order SQUIRT (disk and
documentation) send $8.50 to:
Synesis Systems
P.O. Box 1308
Gilbert, AZ 85234
G/AUTORAM SYSTEM from Checkmate Technology costs $19.95 plus, probably, N
Lshipping and handling. Call 1-800-325-7347 for precise details. This disk M
Kprovides all of the RAMdisk software plus a fantastic program used to copy P
Nwhat you have in your RAMdisk onto disks. With this feature and a very large J
HRAMdisk, you can load all of AppleWorks, Sideways or a Speller, such as K
IPinpoints Document Checker into a 512k partition and when done, back the M
KRAMdisk onto floppy disks, four in my case, and the next time you use this J
Hconfiguration, simply "restore" your RAMdisk with the programs on these F
D"special" disks. Startup takes far about three to four minutes. I H
understand that PROSEL operates similarly, but have not tested it yet.