Syncronys Softcorp, the software company that withdrew its bestselling SoftRAM Random Access Memory doubling package for Windows and Windows 95 after complaints it didn’t work, is trying again, this time on the Macintosh platform. RAM Charger made its debut at MacWorld Expo in Boston yesterday, and began shipping immediately after the show. Syncronys claims that RAM Charger will allow users to run more and larger programs, and in the process, add stability to the MacOS operating system. It works by adding dynamic RAM management to the MacOS. RAM Charger has also been released in Japan, where it is already a best-seller, according to company CEO Rainer Poertner. It costs $39.95, and demo versions are available free from the company web site, at http://www.syncronys.com. RAM maximizing tools are easier to produce for the Mac than for Windows 95, which includes its own complex memory management software already built in. Syncronys needs a success – since withdrawing SoftRAM at the end of last year its revenues have all but dried up. Last month, the company agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented and/or failed to substantiate the performance of SoftRAM for both Windows and Windows 95 platforms, 600,000 copies of which were sold between August and December of last year. O’Reilly & Associates editor Andrew Schulman has compiled a database of documentation on the whole SoftRAM story, which can be found at ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/windows/win95.update/softram.html
