Therefore, the CPC's own OS (in combination with AmsDOS) and [[CP/M]] were the only two known OSes for the series, but the question remained: since most CPCs have 128K (most C64 only have 64K), a screen-resolution of 320x200 with 4 colours (C64 only has 2 colours for each 8x8 area in 320x200) and some more advantages, why not have something similar? So the SymbOS-Project was born. SymbOS stands for "SYmbiosis Multitasking Based Operating System". SymbOS is a demonstration of what has been achieved on the CPC: real preemptive multitasking, dynamic memory-management for up to 576K and a totaly MS-Windows-like GUI are the three most important features.
SymbOS started being developed by [[Prodatron ]] in November 2000 ''(more details on the development needed)''
== Features ==
**Total size of the Z80 source code ~ 64.000 lines
== Applications ==
* Applications
** [[SymCommander]] (file and disc management)
** [[SymPlay]] (video player)
** [[SymSee]] (picture viewer)
** [[SymAmp]] (jukebox music player)
* Tools and games
** [[SymSnap]] (emulator snapshot loader)
** [[DiskDeDumper]] (image to disc transfer)
** [[Speech]] (voice synthesizer)
** [[Pocket Calculator]] (calculator)
** [[SYMBiFACE II rom manager]] (rom management for the [[SYMBiFACE II]])
** [[CPC TREX starter]] (rom and disc image configuration for the [[CPC TREX]])
** [[MineSweeper]] (game)
* System programs
** [[Control Panel]] (system configuration)
** [[Task Manager]] (system monitor)
** [[SymShell]] (command line interface)
== Web links ==
Note: This is an edited version of the original * [http://www.symbos.de SYMBOS siteSymbOS homepage]* [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS spanish Wikipedia article]