Looking for specific RamDisk program

[Cubey]

The boot disks the guy gave me with the Mac Plus I used to have contained some shareware RamDisk program where it would boot the floppy, copy the OS (6.x) to the RamDisk, and then eject the floppy and leave you with a speedy system and the use of the floppy drive.. and you didn't need a hard drive. The only thing I remember about it was that it had a big message on the screen when booting talking about it and saying it was shareware and it had a giraffe (or maybe a ram? lol) icon for the RamDisk on the desktop.

Does anyone know the exact name of this shareware program?

 

[Cubey]

My memory finally kicked in and I suddenly remembered what it was...

RamDisk+

 

[slomacuser]

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/71more.html

RamDisks

RamDisk+ .. 3.03 .. 3.23 .. 3.2.4 .. 3.2.4a .. (Control Panel) .. (Requires any Mac)

RamDisk+ will recognize up to 256 Megabytes of memory even when the Finder only recognizes 8 Megs.

Optionally switches System control to the RAM disk and ejects the startup floppy.

 

[Scott Baret]

RamDisk+ by Roger D. Bates...yes, the startup icon is a floppy disk with a picture of a ram.

At my first school we used to use this program on all the floppy-driven Macs. Instead of installing hard drives or replacing Pluses with newer machines the school simply upgraded the RAM on these units and had RamDisk+ load System 6 into memory. It would then eject the startup disk so we could use programs from floppies without having to worry about disk swaps or the use of external floppy drives.

The school did this through late 1994, when the Pluses were replaced with LC475s and the floppy-only LCIIs were upgraded to LCIIIs. Even with 2MB (the typical amount of RAM in most of our machines) these computers could run a stripped-down System 6 (the startup disks usually only had a few DAs/fonts and no INITs/cdevs other than Responder) from RAM and still have enough left to run programs as sophisticated as Kid Pix. There would occasionally be a Type 25 (out of memory) error when printing but the system worked fine otherwise.

I recommend at least 2.5MB for running this program if you plan to use this system so you can run more programs or add more conveniences like fonts (especially if you're running a floppy-driven word processor such as Works 2.0 or MacWrite II).