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Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #398828] Sat, 29 August 2020 18:21 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: Robert Allred

I have an erphi ERAM 1 MByte RAM Card installed in my Apple IIe and looking for the disk images. I was able to find a German manual for the card at http://www.harrowalsh.de/APPLEBOX/APPLE2/appleboxdownload.ht m down near the bottom in the RAM Expansion card section, but no disk images.

Also, has anyone ever used one of these--can it be used to expand the AppleWorks desktop? If not, I should probably stop trying to get the software for it and sell it instead.
Re: Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #398860 is a reply to message #398828] Sun, 30 August 2020 10:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Antoine Vignau is currently offline  Antoine Vignau
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> I have an erphi ERAM 1 MByte RAM Card installed in my Apple IIe and looking for the disk images. I was able to find a German manual for the card at http://www.harrowalsh.de/APPLEBOX/APPLE2/appleboxdownload.ht m down near the bottom in the RAM Expansion card section, but no disk images.
>
> Also, has anyone ever used one of these--can it be used to expand the AppleWorks desktop? If not, I should probably stop trying to get the software for it and sell it instead.

My Erphi disks seem to be for a disk controller card. I've uploaded them to http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/public/

Antoine
Re: Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #398884 is a reply to message #398828] Sun, 30 August 2020 16:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hugh Hood is currently offline  Hugh Hood
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On 8/29/2020 5:21 PM, Robert Allred wrote:
>
> Also, has anyone ever used one of these--can it be used to expand the
> AppleWorks desktop? If not, I should probably stop trying to get the
> software for it and sell it instead.
>

Robert,

I don't speak German, but I took a look at the technical pages at the
rear of the manual you linked, and it is neither an Aux-Slot (e.g.
RamWorks) clone, which is for the IIe only, nor does it seem to be a
Slinky (e.g. RamFactor) clone.

Given that those are two of the three memory card types that AppleWorks
3/4/5 recognize out of the box (the other being IIgs expansion memory),
I think it may be tough to expand the AppleWorks desktop with them.

On the other hand, if it happens to be a clone of the bank-switched
Legend Industries 1 meg card, you might want to try and get a Legend
utility disk and see if they don't have a mod program to patch
AppleWorks 3 to use it. Or, get a copy of PlusWorks to use with
AppleWorks 2 and give it a try. Here's some docs:

<http://apple2online.com/web_documents/Plusworks%20WS.pdf>

Since you have a IIe, and are interested in AppleWorks, you can get an 8
Meg card from Garrett's Workshop for only $35.00 and AppleWorks 5.1 can
use 6 meg of it for Desktop. Just a suggestion, of course.




Hugh Hood
Re: Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #398901 is a reply to message #398860] Sun, 30 August 2020 22:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Robert Allred

> My Erphi disks seem to be for a disk controller card. I've uploaded them to http://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/public/
>
> Antoine

Antoine,

Merci beaucoup d’avoir cherché!

Vous avez raison, les disques que vous avez téléchargés étaient pour la carte de contrôleur de disque erphi. Je les ai enregistrés dans mes archives de disques locaux, juste au cas où. J’apprécie l’effort que vous avez fait.

-Robert
Re: Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #398911 is a reply to message #398901] Mon, 31 August 2020 06:27 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Antoine Vignau is currently offline  Antoine Vignau
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Hi Robert,
Thank you for answering in French :-)
I wrote to Tom, a German collector who provided me with Erphi materials for the Apple II Documentation Project. I also gave him the link to here.

Cheers,
Antoine
Re: Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #398986 is a reply to message #398884] Tue, 01 September 2020 12:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Robert Allred

On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 1:17:07 PM UTC-7, Hugh Hood wrote:
<snip>
>
> On the other hand, if it happens to be a clone of the bank-switched
> Legend Industries 1 meg card, you might want to try and get a Legend
> utility disk and see if they don't have a mod program to patch
> AppleWorks 3 to use it. Or, get a copy of PlusWorks to use with
> AppleWorks 2 and give it a try. Here's some docs:
>
> <http://apple2online.com/web_documents/Plusworks%20WS.pdf>
>
> Since you have a IIe, and are interested in AppleWorks, you can get an 8
> Meg card from Garrett's Workshop for only $35.00 and AppleWorks 5.1 can
> use 6 meg of it for Desktop. Just a suggestion, of course.

Thanks. Some of the Legend tools work, other don't. Thanks for the lead. I wasn't aware of Garrett's Workshop--ordered a card!
Re: Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #399045 is a reply to message #398986] Wed, 02 September 2020 01:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Hugh Hood is currently offline  Hugh Hood
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On 9/1/2020 11:06 AM, Robert Allred wrote:

>
> Thanks. Some of the Legend tools work, other don't. Thanks for the
> lead. I wasn't aware of Garrett's Workshop--ordered a card!
>

Robert,

I imagine you'll be happy with that Garrett's Workshop card. These
modern cards are really low-power designs that should run very cool.

Just in case you do want to use that card for a giant AppleWorks
Desktop, know that out-of-the-box AppleWorks 5.1 will use 3 Meg of it,
giving you about a 2 Meg Desktop.

But, I have patched 'APLWORKS.SYSTEM' to use 6 Megs on these new cards,
giving you about a 4 Meg Desktop.

The replacement file (and some background on the mods) are here:

<http://www.apple2works.com/BigAuxCardAppleWorks51/>




Hugh Hood
Re: Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #399094 is a reply to message #399045] Wed, 02 September 2020 12:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Bobbi

I just wanted to second Hugh's recommendation. The GW RAM2E 8MB card is great. And also great value!

All the best,
Bobbi

On Wednesday, September 2, 2020 at 1:58:35 a.m. UTC-4, Hugh Hood wrote:
> On 9/1/2020 11:06 AM, Robert Allred wrote:
>
>>
>> Thanks. Some of the Legend tools work, other don't. Thanks for the
>> lead. I wasn't aware of Garrett's Workshop--ordered a card!
>>
> Robert,
>
> I imagine you'll be happy with that Garrett's Workshop card. These
> modern cards are really low-power designs that should run very cool.
>
> Just in case you do want to use that card for a giant AppleWorks
> Desktop, know that out-of-the-box AppleWorks 5.1 will use 3 Meg of it,
> giving you about a 2 Meg Desktop.
>
> But, I have patched 'APLWORKS.SYSTEM' to use 6 Megs on these new cards,
> giving you about a 4 Meg Desktop.
>
> The replacement file (and some background on the mods) are here:
>
> <http://www.apple2works.com/BigAuxCardAppleWorks51/>
>
>
>
>
> Hugh Hood
Re: Need Help Finding Disk Images [message #399120 is a reply to message #399094] Wed, 02 September 2020 16:37 Go to previous message
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Originally posted by: Robert Allred

Thanks all!! Can't wait for the card to get here.
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