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ATTENTION! Commodore 128D Owners...
✓ Switch the built-in 1571 drive from device 8 to 9, or from 8 through 11 from front panel.
Reset the drive from front panel.
V Reset the computer from front panal, f' Power-op computer from front panel.
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RAMLink and RLU. Normal/Direct allows you to acccss the RHU as a separate unit from the RAMLink (Direct). The REU can he part of your total RAM in the RAMLink (Normal). This allows you to ehoosc how you want to configure your system. You Could easily set up the RAMLink RAM for GEOS while the REU is reserved for your Fleet System 4 spel [checker.
GEOS and any program can he made to autobOOt upon power up. There is an area in RAMLink that allows you to specify certain perimeters that let you auloboot a program from any drive. I28 owners can have one for 128 mode and one for 64 mode. It can be up and running from RAMLink almost instantly!
With the cartridge pass-thru port and a normal cartridge port, you may also find some of the rules of cartridge combinations have changed - some good, some not so good. What I'm talking about here is when you use a cartridge port expansion unit (a thing that plugs into your cartridge port and allows you to plug in more than one cartridge), you find thai certain cartridges will not work together and some have to he in a certain slot combination to work. I had my HEARSAY 1000, Simons' BASIC, Super Expander, and an REU hooked up for the last year, I wanted to use the Final Cartridge III in conjunction with my system and thought I'd give up either the Simons' BASIC or Super
Expander. Well, everything worked line except I couldn't use the REU, At one time, I wanted to use my REU with an extension cable so it could lay flat on my workbench. That didn't work, either. I also hoped to use die FCIII with the extender on my C128, but it didn't work. Since the RAMLink has its own power source, I gave it a try. I wound up with a 1 Meg RAMLink with 512K GEORAM in the Pass-Thru.
Coming out the expansion slot is the extension cable thai plugs into an Aprospand cartridge expansion card. The card has my HEARSAY 1000, FC1I1 and REU. Unfortunately, I can't use the third slot since things got a little cramped; the monitor and disk drive cables need to go through the center of everything! But it works! The setup will not boot unless the FCIII is turned on, which is fine, except when I turn off JiffyDOS. The Q turns off the FCIII, except the fast load! KILL (a FCIII command) crashes the system, unless implemented from the desktop, in which case it works perfectly fine. I was amazed at how compatible the two arc. Sometimes the system turns on in 128 mode and sometimes it turns on in 64 mode within the FCIII. When 1 want to use 128
mode and the latter occurs, I simply exit the FCIII with KILL, reset the computer, and I'm in 128 mode.
This device has many similarities to the HD device. MCOPY and FCOPY arc used to copy files and disks to partitions. A snapshot cartridge is recommended for copy protected programs.
The RAMLink is also an alternate doorway to the HD. With the RAMLink, you have parallel acccss to die HD for breathtaking disk access.
The bottom line is compatibility. JiffyDOS, C64/CI28, the HD. RAMLink and all your normal equipment will simply sing with the speed these devices can give.
The RAMCard (for adding up to 16 Meg of internal RAM), Real Time Clock, and haliery backup arc optional -I recommend them all.
This device is rated at;
* REALLV BAD
Both the HD and RAMLink arc available from Creative Micro Designs, Inc., P.O.Box 646, E. Longmeadow, MA, 01028. Phone: 1-800-638-3263
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