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The OS supports many of the hardware available for the CPC, including real-time clocks, the Vortex disc drives, several mice & trackballs and the Dobbertin HD20 hard disc. Also the [[SYMBiFACE II|SYMBiFACE II]] (RTC and PS/2 mouse, RAM, ROM, IDE low level) is supported in system .8 beta. One of the ambitions of FutureOS is to support all hardware available, like 3.5" B-drives, Vortex F1-D-drives, HDDs, real-time clocks, serial interfaces etc.  Hardware expansions usually need drivers that can be flexibly added to an OS. Contrary to this approach, a goal of FutureOS is to provide a centrally-oriented monolithic architecture where all drivers are implemented in a hardcoded way. This is possible since the CPC has clearly defined hardware expansions compared to a PC.

'''8 bit printer ports<br>'''

'''Drives<br>'''

'''Expansion cards<br>'''

'''Floppy discs,&nbsp;formats:<br>'''

'''Hard-disc<br>'''

*IDE hard discs (173 KB/s with [[IDE8255|IDE8255]], 162 KB/s with [[CPC-IDE|CPC-IDE]] or [[SYMBiFACE II|SymbifaceSYMBiFACE II]]) - IDE ROM needed

'''Joysticks<br>'''

'''Light-Pens<br>'''

'''Memory expansions<br>'''

*[[Dk'tronics memory expansion|Dk'tronics]] 64 KB, 256 -512 KB and 512 KB *compatibles ([[Dobbertin Memory Expansion|Dobbertin]] 64 KB - 512 KB *, [[Inicron RAM-BoxSYMBiFACE II|InicronSYMBiFACE II]] 256 KB and 512 KB )

*[[SYMBiFACE II:PS/2 mouse|PS/2 mouse]] of Symbiface2SYMBiFACE II&nbsp;

FutureOS is designed as an OS with fast routines and support for nearly all CPC expansions. It has specialised file handling and memory management capabilities that support programs up to 4 MB. The idea is that development of games, graphic tools, word processors, sound (especially MP3), management of big amounts of data, and programming languages are possible in this environment. At this point, the user can listen to MP3 files, work with graphic, use C programs, watch movies &amp; demos and play games. <br>