Subj : Re: Apple //e w0rld
To   : paulie420
From : Spectre
Date : Tue Jun 20 2023 16:02:00

 pa> Yea, I'm gonna have another POKE around.. I'll be certain to PEEK in all
 pa> the boxes, but I don't think theres a RamFactor card; its an expansion
 pa> slot card, right, not some daughter board or anything?

The usual slot for a RamFactor was 5, but like a lot of cards, it'll go in
any slot. If there's no serial cards, 1 or 2 are also available.

 pa> awesome back then - but man, people really trusted software to that?! I

It'd be O/S and applications you put on the RamFactor, not data as such.
Would give you a much faster boot time.  Although because of the way it
works, some of the SCSI cards were actually faster.

 pa>  Sp> While playing around with it initially, I'd be inclined to pull the
 pa>  Sp> accelerator.  See what works, and once your happy with that and

 pa> thought about the accelerator, but I usually have it switched OFF when I'm
 pa> loading a game - however, maybe a DIP switch isn't set right; if you

Even with acceleration disabled, you may still well be using the accelerator
card for processing so the problems will persist.  One of the reasons I'd be
inclined to remove it for now.

Most of the goodies you've got a really more targeted at a business end of
things.  Appleworks, ProTerm, I forget what else now off hand will all run
accelerated happily, and don't use any video modes.

Once you start looking at games you'll run into more issues. It kind of
becomes choose the best selection of cards for your purpose.

Spec


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