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COPYRIGHTS WARNING Orange Micro Inc. reserves all rights in all software, including the utilities disk of the RamPak 4GS, and in the Operators Manual. Any infringement of those copyrights will be prosecuted to the fullest extent allowed by the law. (German) URHEBERRECHTLICHER HINWEIS Orange Micro Inc. behalt sich alle Rechte hinsichtlich der Software vor, einschlie Blich der Dienstprogramm- Diskette des RamPak4GS, sowie der im Bedienungshandbuch beschriebenen Software. Jegliche Verletzungen
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RamPak 4GS OPERATOR’S MANUAL TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 2 What’s in the Box 2 Two Levels of RamPak Operation 2 INSTALLATION OF THE RAMPAK INTO THE APPLE IIGS 3 Installation Test 5 INSTALLING RAM CHIPS IN THE RAMPAK 4GS 5 RAMPAK MEMORY MANAGEMENT UTILITIES OVERVIEW 8 INSTALLATION OF THE MEMORY MANAGEMENT UTILITIES 8 Installation on a ProDOS 16 System Disk 9 Installation on a ProDOS 8 System Disk 10 STARTUP PROCEDURES USING SYSTEM DISKS WITH RAMPAK UTILITIES INSTALLED 10 How to use Pull-Do
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INTRODUCTION Congratulations! You have purchased one of the most powerful memory sub-systems ever developed for a microcomputer. With a full half-megabyte of memory standard, you will immediately expand your Apple IIGS to three-quarters of a megabyte -- more fully addressable memory than ever before available on an Apple II. By adding additional chips, you can expand your RamPak 4GS to 4 megabytes, for computing power previously beyond imagination. The RamPak 4GS is designed to wor
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automatically when the RamPak 4GS is properly installed in your Apple. Your computer knows to look for available memory every time you turn it on, so the RamPak's expansion benefits are immediately realized. Memory management is up to you. It is accomplished through use of the RamPak system utilities, which may be implemented at any time once the RamPak 4GS is installed. This manual is structured along these guidelines, beginning with the procedure to install and expand the RamPak c
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3. Touch the power supply of the Apple IIGS before handling the RamPak 4GS. Static charges may damage your RAM or other delicate electronic parts. 4. If you have purchased additional RAM for the Ram Pak, this must be installed before the RamPak is installed in your Apple. Turn ahead to ‘Installing RAM Chips in the RamPak 4GS on page 5, follow the instructions, and return to step 5 below. 5. Locate the memory expansion slot. You will notice that the IIGS contains a row of seven expansion
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By following this procedure you will have properly installed the RamPak 4GS, and any software designed to use higher RAM levels will now automatically take advantage of your powerful new system. Installation Test To be sure the RamPak 4GS is functioning properly, run the following short test: 1. With all drives empty, turn on the Apple IIGS. Press CTRL-RESET after the start-up cycle to generate a cursor. 2. When the cursor appears press CTRL- -ESC (pressing all three keys together and rel
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development which require large amounts of memory to load and run. For these situations, the RamPak 4GS provides expansion capability to 4Mb. Your RamPak 4GS has been specifically designed for use with 256K x 4 DRAM chips. This allows you to expand at a rate of 2 chips (or 256K) at a time, as opposed to the 8 chip minimum expansion required by other available products. When purchasing your expansion chips, specify: 256K x 4, one megabit DRAMS, 150 nanosecond (or faster), or purcha
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ending with sockets 3 & 4, all of which are located in row A. You may then continue to BANK 1, row B, where the first chips will be installed in sockets 1 and 2. This right- to-left, top-to-bottom format is consistent throughout the expansion of the RamPak 4GS. Expanding in this way is necessary to allow RAM expansion without resetting switches or jumpers on the board or the computer. Once you have identified the locations in which your new chips will be installed, note the notches (or d
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RAMPAK MEMORY MANAGEMENT UTILITIES OVERVIEW Included with the RamPak 4GS is a disk labeled Memory Management Utilities. This powerful software package will enable you to substantially increase your systems speed and performance through the use of disk caching and Dynamic or Manual Cache Allocation. The RamPak Memory Management Utilities also provide RAM Diagnostics and Memory Status reporting, helping to detect problems before they lead to data loss or damage. If you wish, the RamPak u
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VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY: The RamPak Utilities work with ProDOS 16 or ProDOS 8, but they will not remain resident when your Apple IIGS switches between ProDOS 16 and ProDOS 8. Separate RamPak utilities for both ProDOS 16 and ProDOS 8 are provided on the Utilities disk. The ProDOS 8 version of the RamPak Utilities is named “Cache.System” and the ProDOS 16 version of the utilities is named “Cache.” You must install the appropriate Rampak utility file on each startup dis
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Installing the Utilities on a ProDOS 8 System Disk: To install the RamPak Utilities on any ProDOS 8 System Disk, use the Apple IIGS Desktop or your own copy utility to copy the file “Cache.System’ from the RamPak Utilities disk as the first ‘system” file on your ProDOS 8 system disk. The “Cache. System” file must be the first “system’ file on your ProDOS 8 system disk. STARTUP PROCEDURES USING SYSTEM DISKS WITH RAMPAK UTILITIES INSTALLED To use your RamPak Utilities after you have ins
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menu, but the disk containing the RamPak Utilities file must be in the drive in order to change settings. How to Use Pull-down Menus When you first enter the menu screen, you will see a bar across the top of the screen with several titles. These are your menu titles. Under each of these is a menu, which contains one or more selections. Some selections will open a dialog box, which will provide additional selections or allow the entry of data. 1. OPENING A MENU Use the mouse to point at the
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The Apple Menu The Apple menu contains only two selections: About This Disk’ and ‘Troubleshooting.’ Both of these are informational screens, requiring no other user interaction than clicking on the Close box when viewing is complete. Where applicable, use the scroll bars to advance to the next screen. About this Disk Displays information on the RamPak Memory Management Utilities, including revision number and copyright date. Troubleshooting Displays information on possible problems
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The Concept of Statistics,” on page 16 of this Operator’s Manual. Undo All Changes Removes all settings made since last “DONE-- INSTALL CHANGES. Returns you to the Desk Accessory menu. Done--Install Changes Exits from the RamPak utilities and returns to ProDOS, while installing all of your memory settings in your IIGS RAM. Your RamPak Memory Management Utilities disk MUST be in the drive to install. This Menu will open a Dialog Box entitled ‘Save Changes to Disk” which will allow you to
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Extended Memory Test Selects a complete RAM test, including READ- WRITE test, test for proper RAM refresh, and a check for addressing errors. Bad chips are indicated by socket and row location (i.e. U4,D). In addition, all memory errors are reported by memory location. Bad chips generally require replacement. Remove the problem chip using a small screwdriver or other appropriate tool to pry the chip up, little by little, each end a little at a time. Refer to INSTALLING RAM CHIPS IN
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spooling or other memory functions. Other times, no effort is even put forth to understand caching, since the idea of altering the way your system handles memory really doesn’t sound too “safe” anyway. Once understood and used effectively, disk caching will become a very powerful system enhancement for virtually any user. Your RamPak 4GS utility may be the most powerful, easy to use caching tool ever written for a microcomputer. A cache is actually a disk drive enhancement. A cache is
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The Concept of Statistics The RamPak 4GS Statistics Utility offers the user the ability to view the efficiency of the current cache set-up at any time. It will allow the user to view such items as the number of reads, reads to cached blocks (also called a HIT), the percentage of reads to hits (the cache efficiency), the number of buffers allocated to any drive, and how many writes to disk have occurred. And by using the RESET STATISTICS COUNTER TO ZERO feature under the SETTINGS menu
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the ON/OFF selection ,indicating whether or not a cache will be active on the specified drive. Again, pointing and clicking with the mouse will make the selection. After ON is selected, a cursor will appear in the DISK MAXIMUM CACHE SIZE box at the bottom of the cache section of the screen . Use the keyboard to enter the desired size of the cache. Click on the ON box a second time if you need to change the cache size to a different number. (“Blocks” are the recognized
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application. Dynamic Cache Allocation is recommended for most caching purposes. All that you manually need to allocate is the amount of RAM you wish to set aside for total system caching. A dialog box will appear asking for the number of blocks you wish to set aside as a total buffer pool size. One block equals 512 bytes of RAM. For example, 128 blocks equals 64K bytes of RAM. This memory will be unavailable to programs or other utilities. The default setting is 256 blocks, equaling
