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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