[[Image:Future OS-Logo.gif|thumb|FutureOS-Logo]][[Image:Future-os.jpg|400px|thumb|400px|FutureOS main screen]]
== Introduction ==
== GUI ==
The Desktop of FutureOS is divided in two sections. First an icon-section, where you can choose your functions. Second there is a section below, where you can browse through directories of discs and hard-disc partitions.
== File system ==
FutureOS is compatible with the CPCs native data-, file- and format structures (f. e. File-header, Disc-formats). It is not compatible with native [[AMSDOS]] or [[CP/M]] programs. FutureOS and compatible applications can be downloaded at: [http://www.FutureOS.de www.FutureOS.de].
Filenames can use all 256 different characters and user numbers from 0 to 254 (except for &E5, which marks a deleted file). Different to Amsdos, a file that is erased under FutureOS will not be shifted to user &E5, but it will be physically removed from the directory. Files can be viewed on-screen (scroll up and down) or printed. You can also view the file-header. When typing a text-file it is possible to set the number of columns and lines of the window the text is displayed in. File-headers are displayed as AmsDOS file or the icon-like file-header of a FutureOS program. An AmsDOS file-header has 128 bytes of which some bytes are unused. FutureOS makes use of those unused bytes so that files have a length definition of 24bit and can have a physical RAM select. Therefore a file can be defined to be loaded everywhere in the external RAM. Also a FutureOS file-header can contain a graphical icon, a textual icon or a short description of the file.
== Hardware ==
* Dobbertin EPROM card
* Inicron ROM-RAM-BOX
* * RAM7's RAMCARRAMCARD*
* Super Power ROM
* Symbiface Pseudo ROM
== Utilities ==
Tools like copy, format, verify or refresh a disc exist. You can copy files from different discs and partitions to other discs and partitions at once.
== Developing for FutureOS ==
You can developp very freely, even the RST vectors are free usable. Also the second register set of the Z80 is freely usable.
== Web links ==
* [http://www.FutureOS.de FutureOS homepage]
* [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FutureOS/ FutureOS Downloads & amp; Mailing list]
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