Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!microsoft!brianw From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: ProFile Message-ID: <7836@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 01:42:09 GMT References: <3035@ur-cc.UUCP> <4150@wpi.wpi.edu> Reply-To: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 34 In article <4150@wpi.wpi.edu> greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender) writes: >I know that with an internal ramdisk card Appleworks 2.0 mentions a >Profile card. I believe there is a card specifically designed >to run a profile hard drive on an Apple II series computer, and that >the card is actually made by Apple. I'm pretty sure that you're right, because the first time I saw a ProFile it was hooked up to a //e in an Apple dealership. I remember thinking that it was annoying because while I was browsing through the monitor the ProFile would start up AppleWorks if I hit a few carriage returns on empty lines. If I had only known at the time what a hard disk could do! >On a side note, when a person has an apple-standard memory card >in slot 5 (mine has 256K) how does one access the memory from >assembler? I just ordered an unpopulated Apple-compatible memory card through Computer Direct for $99.95. I had to call the manufacturer, SMT, for tech help, and he suggested using ProDOS volume calls. I think that's what Apple intended, and it should be more compatible with other cards. If you really want speed (I'm not sure how much difference it would make) you could disassemble the ROM drivers - or just check out the Apple II Memory Expansion Card Reference Manual, which is listed as a beta manual in the APDA catalog for $20. The description mentions "technical enthusiasts who want their application programs to take advantage of the expanded memory features of the card", but I don't know if this is a guarantee of specific documentation of soft switch address/functions or not. Brian Willoughby UUCP: ...!{tikal, sun, uunet, elwood}!microsoft!brianw InterNet: microsoft!brianw@uunet.UU.NET or: microsoft!brianw@Sun.COM Bitnet brianw@microsoft.UUCP