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Latest revision as of 03:55, 21 April 2010

Frontpage

Information

Title: SOFT 158A: DDI-1 Firmware - The Complete CPC 464 Disc Operating System ROM Specification
Authors: Paul Overell, Locomotive Software
Publisher: Amsoft
Year: 1984
Pages:
ISBN:

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Contents

Appendix XIII (to Soft 158)

Chapter 1 - Overview.
1.1     CP/M 2.2.
1.2     AMSDOS.
1.3     Utilities

Chapter 2 - CP/M 2.2 ant the BIOS.
2.1     Structure of CP/M.
2.2     Store Map.
2.3     Cold Boot.
2.4     Warm Boot.
2.5     Resident System Extensions.
2.6     Using MOVCPM.COM.
2.7     IOBYTE.
2.8     BIOS User Interaction.
2.9     Initial Command Buffer.
2.10    BIOS Messages.
2.11    Disc Organization.
2.12    Boot Sector.
2.13    Configuration Sector.
2.14    BIOS Jumpblocks.
2.15    Extended Disc Parameter Blocks.
2.16    The Restart Instructions and Locations.
2.17    Using the Alternate Register Set and ENTER FIRMWARE.

Chapter 3 - AMSDOS.
3.1     Features.
3.2     Filenames.
3.3     File Headers.
3.4     Changing Discs.
3.5     Intercepted Cassette Routines.
3.6     External Commands.
3.7     AMSDOS Messages.
3.8     BIOS Facilities Available to AMSDOS.
3.9     Store Requirements.

Chapter 4 - Utilities
4.1     AMSDOS.COM
4.2     CLOAD.COM
4.3     CSAVE.COM
4.4     CHKDISC.COM
4.5     DISCCHK.COM
4.6     COPYDISC.COM
4.7     DISCCOPY.COM
4.8     FILECOPY.COM
4.9     FORMAT.COM
4.10    SETUP.COM
4.11    BOOTGEN.COM and SYSGEN.COM

Chapter 5 - Hardware.
5.1     Disc Interface.
5.2     Serial Interface.

See also