System Disk

The Amstrad CPC computers mostly came with system disk(s) included.

The system disks varied in look and content, depending on the CPC-model they came with.

Contents of the various system disks

As the 3" disks in the CPC need to be flipped over in order to access the second side of it, the term "disk" refers to one side of such a physical 3" disk. "Disk 4" is therefore Side B of the 2nd system disk.

CPC464 (DDI-1)

Disk 1: CP/M 2.2 System and Utilities
Disk 2: CP/M 2.2 DR LOGO & Help
- Disk 2 also contains a game demo (RUN"ROINTIME.DEM")
- The system disk contains the utilities
  - COPYDSK
  - DSKCOPY
  - CHKDSK
  - DSKCHK
  - DSKFORM

for copying, verifying (checking) and formatting disks with one or two disk drives

CPC664

Disk 1: CP/M 2.2 System and Utilities
Disk 2: CP/M 2.2 DR LOGO & Help
- Disk 2 also contains a product demonstration in local language
- The system disk contains the utilities
  - COPYDSK
  - DSKCOPY
  - CHKDSK
  - DSKCHK
  - DSKFORM

for copying, verifying (checking) and formatting disks with one or two disk drives

CPC6128

Disk 1: CP/M Plus System and Utilities
Disk 2: CP/M Plus Utilities
Disk 3: DR LOGO & Help (CP/M Plus)
Disk 4: CP/M 2.2 with DR LOGO & Help
- Disk 4 also contains a product demonstration in local language (For Germany: Two variants of the product demonstration exist, one for Schneider (-1988) and one for Amstrad (1988-)
- The system disks contain the utilities
  - DISCKIT3 (CP/M Plus)
  - DISCKIT2 (CP/M 2.2)

for copying, verifying and formatting disks with one or two disk drives

An archive with disk images of English, French, German (Schneider) and German (Amstrad) CPC6128 system disks can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/cpc/utils/cpc/cpmplus.zip