AMSTRAD CPC464 manuals

Amstrad CPC464 Technical Information (103 pages)

Brand: Amstrad | Category: PC/workstation barebones | Size: 0.96 MB |

English

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DISC DRIVE & INTERFACE

2

Contents

4

AMSTRAD DDI-1

7

FOUNDATION COURSE

7

IMPORTANT

10

Foundations 2: About Discs

11

When Your Disc Is In

13

Indicator Lamp

14

Eject Button

14

Foundations 3:

15

Loading Software/Games

15

MEMORY USAGE WARNING

16

Foundations 4:

17

Introducing AMSDOS and CP/M

17

Storing Data Onto Disc

19

... Back to AMSDOS

21

Loading From Disc

22

Copying Using DISCCOPY

24

Copying Using COPYDISC

25

Checking Discs

26

Aborting

26

INSTALLATION

27

OPERATION

27

CHAPTER 1

29

Making Working Discs

29

1.3 A BASIC only disc

30

1.5 Turnkey CP/M Discs

31

CHAPTER 2

35

AMSDOS Primer

35

2.2 Disc Directory

36

2.3.2 AMSDOS headers

37

2.3.3 Filenames on two drives

37

2.3.3 Wild cards

38

2.6 Copying Files

44

Chapter 3 CP/M Primer

49

3.3 Configuration Sector

50

3.4 Console control codes

50

3.5 Logging in a disc

50

3.6 Direct Console Commands

51

3.7 Transient commands

52

3.7.2 File and disc copying

53

3.7.3 System Management

54

3.7.3.2 SETUP

55

3.7.4 Disc Generation

56

3.7.5 Advanced programming

57

CHAPTER 4

59

Introduction to LOGO

59

4.2 Dr. LOGO

60

4.3 Getting Started

60

4.4 FIRST STEPS

60

4.5 DR. LOGO PROCEDURES

61

4.9 Operating hints

63

4.10.2 ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

66

4.10.3 LOGICAL OPERATIONS:

67

4.10.4 VARIABLES:

69

4.10.5 PROCEDURES:

69

4.10.6 EDITING:

70

4.10.7 TEXT SCREEN:

70

4.10.8 GRAPHIC SCREEN:

71

4.10.9 TURTLE GRAPHICS:

73

4.10.10 WORKSPACE MANAGEMENT:

75

4.10.19 SYSTEM PROPERTIES

82

CHAPTER 5

83

Firmware

83

5.2 Changing Discs

84

5.3 Store requirements

84

5.4 Error Messages

85

5.4.1 AMSDOS messages

85

5.4.2 BIOS messages

85

5.5 Disc Organisation

87

5.8 Return Parameters

88

APPENDIX 1

91

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

91

APPENDIX 2

97

4. LIMITED WARRANTY

98

5. LIMITATIONS OF REMEDIES

99

6. REGISTRATION CARD

99

7. GENERAL

99

APPENDIX 3

101

Amstrad CPC464 User Manual (5 pages)

Brand: Amstrad | Category: PC/workstation barebones | Size: 0.27 MB |

English

Table of contents

PERSONAL

1

COMPUTER

1

IMPORTANT

3

CONTENTS

4

Amstrad CPC464 User Manual (16 pages)

Brand: Amstrad | Category: PC/workstation barebones | Size: 0.02 MB |

English

Table of contents

20 AMSDOS External Commands

1

Page 20.2

2

DISC.IN

7

DISC.OUT

8

Page 20.12

12

TAPE.IN

13

TAPE.OUT

14

Page 20.16

16

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