Installation manual

RAM Disks
Choosing the preset default options creates a RAM disk that is addressed in
slot 3 as drive I with the volume name of /MRAM. Although the MultiRam
RGB card is physically in the AUX slot, the RAM disk is made to appear in
slot 3 for programming convenience. Slot 3 was chosen because it is the
video slot which rarely contains a card. If this presents a problem, the RAM
disk can be moved to another slot by choosing the second option.
The second option permits the changing of the RAM disk parameters to Suit
your system. There are four choices offered:
1. What slot the RAM disk is put into.
2. How much memory is to be given to it.
3. Save these custom settings to the floppy disk.
4. Create this custom RAM disk without saving these values to the
floppy disk.
Selection 1, lets you move the RAM disk to another slot. Slots 1 to 7 are fair
game, however slots 7 or 5 are the most likely alternate places to have the
RAM disk. Slots 7 or 5 are good choices as they are usually the last slots to
have cards installed. Remember the slot chosen must not have a card in it.
Selection 2, changes the memory allocated to the RAM disk. Additional
information is displayed on the screen showing how much memory is on the
MultiRam RGB card, how much of the memory the RAM disk holds, and
how large the AppleWorks desktop will be with this setting. The right and
left arrow keys decrease and increase the RAM disk size.
Selection 3, saves these settings to the MultiRam disk and creates the RAM
disk. This completes step one and you are ready for step two which is the
copying of programs/files to the RAM disk. The MultiRam disk will offer
the option to run Apples Filer or not. If you have a preferred copy utility
that allows for file copying, use it. Remember volume copying does not
work with a RAM disk.
Selection 4, is very similar to selection 3 except it does not save the present
RAM disk size and slot settings to the MultiRam disk. Copy the desired files
to the RAM disk and run the programs, step 3. SQUIRT is a handy
enhancement to ProDOS at this point as it will poll all logical devices that are
on line and present a menu list of the ProDOS volumes that are available.
Pressing a single key instructs SQUIRT which device to go to. SQUIRT
again presents a menu listing all of the subdirectories and system files on this
volume. Another single key stroke chooses which subdirectory or application
to go to next.
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