The RAMLink is one of several

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expansion products that was made by Creative Micro Designs (CMD) for

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's C64/

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s. The RAMLink was intended as a third-party alternative, successor and optionally companion to Commodore's own 17xx-series REU RAM expansion cartridges. Unlike the REU, the RAMLink is externally powered and designed from the ground-up to act as a

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Features

* Allows up to 16 MB of expansion RAM. The expansion memory can be provided by a combination of 30-pin

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RAM on an internal card, a Commodore 17xx-series REU (or a clone) plugged into the RAM Port, or a

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. * Provides its own copy of JiffyDOS, allowing accelerated operation with any other Jiffy

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-equipped disk device, as well as shorthand commands ( DOS Wedge) to conveniently access any other connected storage devices. * Full set of partitioning tools and DOS commands. *

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and 1581 disk-layout emulation modes * One partition type provides Direct-access REU-like capability * Secondary power socket and on-board charging circuit to accept a 6-

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"sealed" lead acid backup battery. * Battery-backed real time clock for time and date stamping of files, if the internal RAM card is present. * Includes drivers to allow GEOS to use its memory as either a replacement for

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, or as a regular 'disk' drive. * Custom parallel connection for the

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line of hard drives. * Pass-through expansion port for standard cartridges (e.g.

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, Super Snapshot) * On-device buttons to swap device numbers with other drives, switches to disable 17xx-series REUs or change their handling.

References

* Creative Micro Designs (1990). ''CMD RAMLink User's Manual, third edition.'' (supplied with the hardware)

External links

* Technical info, Games & Utilities Home computer peripherals Memory expansion CMD RAMLink {{microcompu-stub