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X-DDOS is a disc and hard disc operating system from the german company Dobbertin Industrie Electronic. It provides 0.7 MB floppy disc formats for B drives and allows to access the [[Dobbertin Harddisc]] HD20. X-DDOS is delivered as a 16 KB EPROM with a lot of software and a manual.
 
X-DDOS is a disc and hard disc operating system from the german company Dobbertin Industrie Electronic. It provides 0.7 MB floppy disc formats for B drives and allows to access the [[Dobbertin Harddisc]] HD20. X-DDOS is delivered as a 16 KB EPROM with a lot of software and a manual.
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X-DDOS can be used as a rom 7 replacement.
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RSX commands:
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(same as AMSDOS)
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|A, |B, |CPM, |DISC, |DISC.IN, |DISC.OUT, |TAPE, |TAPE.IN, |TAPE.OUT, |DRIVE, |USER, |ERA, |REN
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(same as VDOS)
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|CAS, |CAS.IN, |CAS.OUT
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|ATTRIBUT
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|FORMAT
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|SYSCOPY
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|TYPE
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|X
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|XDRIVE
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|GDUMP
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|HELP
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|ROMOFF
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|AMSDOS
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|FAST
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|SLOW
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|DIR128
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|DIR64
  
 
== Floppy Discs ==
 
== Floppy Discs ==
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X-DDOS supports CP/M and CP/M Plus on 0.7 MB B-drives.
 
X-DDOS supports CP/M and CP/M Plus on 0.7 MB B-drives.
 
The RSX command !HELP displays the command summary of X-DDOS. The commands of AmsDOS are integrated as a subset.
 
  
 
== Hard Disc HD 20 ==
 
== Hard Disc HD 20 ==

Revision as of 14:14, 22 January 2018

X-DDOS is a disc and hard disc operating system from the german company Dobbertin Industrie Electronic. It provides 0.7 MB floppy disc formats for B drives and allows to access the Dobbertin Harddisc HD20. X-DDOS is delivered as a 16 KB EPROM with a lot of software and a manual.

X-DDOS can be used as a rom 7 replacement.

RSX commands: (same as AMSDOS) |A, |B, |CPM, |DISC, |DISC.IN, |DISC.OUT, |TAPE, |TAPE.IN, |TAPE.OUT, |DRIVE, |USER, |ERA, |REN

(same as VDOS) |CAS, |CAS.IN, |CAS.OUT

|ATTRIBUT |FORMAT |SYSCOPY |TYPE |X |XDRIVE |GDUMP |HELP |ROMOFF |AMSDOS |FAST |SLOW |DIR128 |DIR64

Floppy Discs

X-DDOS supports B drives on all CPCs with 80 tracks and 2 sides. It's compatible to the 704 KB Vortex format of the Vortex drives. Additionally it provides the Dobbertin Data- and System format (about 0.7 MB).

X-DDOS supports CP/M and CP/M Plus on 0.7 MB B-drives.

Hard Disc HD 20

Further XD-DOS 2.0 and 2.10 support the HD-20 hard disc drive. The hard disc HD20 consists of four partitions with 5120 KB each. X-DDOS allows the access to this 5 MB partitions by using the drive letters D, E, F and G. The integration of X-DDOS allows to load some games and demos from hard disc. Also CP/M and CP/M Plus can be booted from hard disc.

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