Divide Plus User Manual
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DivIDE Plus Hard Disk Expansion Interface For the Sinclair ZX Spectrum © Jarek Adamski & Jurek Dudek for RWAP Software USER MANUAL Manual Update 7.1 (January 2011) © RWAP Software www.rwapsoftware.co.uk DivIDE Plus User Manual Table of CONTENTS NOTICE ................................................................................................................................ 6 IMPORTANT NOTE FOR SPECTRUM +2A, +2B AND +3 USERS .......................... 6 COMPATIBLE ADD-ONS ................................................................................................. 7 AVAILABLE FIRMWARE ................................................................................................ 7 INSTALLATION OF DIVIDE PLUS .......................................................................................... 9 Setting Up ...................................................................................................................... 10 USING A DISK DRIVE ................................................................................................... 10 Compatible Disk Drives ................................................................................................ 10 Jumper Settings ............................................................................................................. 10 Use in 128K Mode ......................................................................................................... 11 Installing Firmware ...................................................................................................... 11 Loading the Disk Operating System .............................................................................. 12 GETTING SOFTWARE ONTO COMPACT FLASH OR A HARD DISK ..................... 12 Running Problem Games .............................................................................................. 12 FATWARE FIRMWARE ................................................................................................. 13 INSTALLATION ................................................................................................................... 14 Installing for the first time ............................................................................................ 14 Using FATWare............................................................................................................. 14 RESIDOS FIRMWARE .................................................................................................... 15 INSTALLATION ................................................................................................................... 16 Installing for the first time ............................................................................................ 16 Upgrading to a new version of ResiDOS ...................................................................... 16 Installing Packages ....................................................................................................... 16 SETTING UP YOUR HARD DISK OR COMPACTFLASH ............................................................ 18 IDEDOS or FAT? .......................................................................................................... 18 Setting up a FAT drive .................................................................................................. 18 Setting up an IDEDOS drive ......................................................................................... 19 SWITCHING DISKS OR COMPACTFLASH CARDS ................................................................... 20 ENTERING RESIDOS COMMANDS ...................................................................................... 21 Entering functions ......................................................................................................... 21 PARTITION MANAGEMENT ................................................................................................. 22 Creating, deleting and listing partitions ....................................................................... 22 Automatic drive mappings ............................................................................................. 23 Mapping drives to partitions ......................................................................................... 23 DRIVES, DIRECTORIES, PATHS AND USER AREAS................................................................. 25 Setting the default drive, user area or path ................................................................... 25 Creating and deleting directories ................................................................................. 26 Showing the current location ........................................................................................ 26 USING FILES IN RESIDOS ................................................................................................... 27 Filenames ...................................................................................................................... 27 Wildcards ...................................................................................................................... 27 Page 2 of 140 DivIDE Plus User Manual LOADing and SAVEing files ......................................................................................... 28 Changing BASIC auto-run status .................................................................................. 28 Cataloguing files ........................................................................................................... 29 Deleting files ................................................................................................................. 29 Copying files.................................................................................................................. 29 Renaming files ............................................................................................................... 30 Changing file attributes ................................................................................................ 30 128K RAMDISK EMULATION ............................................................................................. 30 Setting up the emulated RAMdisk ................................................................................. 30 Using the emulated RAMdisk ........................................................................................ 31 CUSTOMISING RESIDOS .................................................................................................... 32 Custom colours.............................................................................................................. 32 Autorun files .................................................................................................................. 33 Processor speed ............................................................................................................ 33 USING OPTIONAL PACKAGES, ALTERNATIVE BASICS AND INTERFACE 2 ROMS IN RESIDOS ........................................................................................................................... 34 Installing ROMs ............................................................................................................ 34 Installing ROMs from a file........................................................................................... 35 Installing ROMs already loaded into memory .............................................................. 35 Managing alternative ROMs ......................................................................................... 36 Using alternative ROMs ................................................................................................ 36 SPECTRUM MODES WITH RESIDOS ................................................................................... 38 128K Mode .................................................................................................................... 38 48K mode ...................................................................................................................... 38 Disabling ResiDOS ....................................................................................................... 39 BREAK AND ERROR-TRAPPING ......................................................................................... 40 BREAK-trapping ........................................................................................................... 40 Error-trapping............................................................................................................... 40 Warning! ....................................................................................................................... 41 PACKAGES ......................................................................................................................... 42 THE RESIDOS TASK MANAGER ........................................................................................ 42 Overview ....................................................................................................................... 42 Managing Tasks ............................................................................................................ 43 Other options ................................................................................................................. 43 THE FATFS PACKAGE ........................................................................................................ 44 TAPEIO PACKAGE – LOAD / SAVE .TAP AND .TZX FILES ...................................................