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RAMCard is installed. This means that the BASIC on the Apple
Firmware Card will no longer be available. When you lose the
BASIC on the Firmware Card, you also lose access to any programs
you may have that are written in that BASIC.
2. If you are using CP/M (and SoftCard), then you must use the
CPM56 utility to take advantage of RAMCard’s extra memory. The
CPM56 utility is found only on the 16-sector CP/M master in the
SoftCard package.
Refer to the Microsoft SoftCard Manual, Using Apple CP/M with
the Apple Language Card,” page 1-13, for instructions for using the
CPM56 utility.
Most of the other software that takes advantage of RAMCard, such
as Apple FORTRAN, is supplied on 16-sector disks only. To run this
software, you will need a 16-sector disk system. One exception is
VisiCalc, which does not require a 16-sector disk system to take
advantage of the extra RAMCard memory.
If you are using a 13-sector system, and you want to use some of the
software that comes only on 16-sector disks, you must update to a
16-sector system.
Solution
The solution to these problems is to update your system to Apple DOS
3.3. Then, you will have both BASICs on diskette, you can load the
“other” BASIC into RAMCard, and you will again have access to the
programs you wrote in the BASIC on your Firmware Card. Updating
to Apple DOS 3.3 also allows you to boot 13-sector diskettes, and
allows you to use 16-sector CP/M (and hence CPM56).
Compatible Software
RAMCard is compatible with all the software that can be used with
the Apple Language Card. In fact, RAMCard operates identically to
the Language Card, with one exception: RAMCard does not have
Autostart ROM. See more on Autostart ROM below.
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