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Spartados X Manual Hello ATARI 8-Bit Community, We are proud to present the enhanced and remarkably upgraded SpartaDOS X version 4.41 The most advanced Disk Operating System for ATARI 8-Bit Computers Going into history: SpartaDOS X on cartridge was released end of 1988. This powerful DOS was said to be enhanced and developed. Changes in the computer world in the early 1990s made it to an abandoned product. Last known version from those days is SpartaDOS X 4.22 from FTe As of 2008 there are a lot of new features available: Supporting now Turbo Freezer 2005 cartridge, AtraX SDX 128 and Atarimax Maxflash cartridge it can be run from this hardware masterpieces. The banked memory management has been updated and is now able to handle all known memory extensions properly. A new file system has been written to support more storage devices and 512 bytes per sector. 15 drives can now be used with SpartaDOS X. The Y2K-bug is fixed. Proper support for the XEP80 video card on PAL computers is implemented. Many new utilities have been incorporated into the cartridge. And there is much more you will explore reading the manual and using SpartaDOS X 4.41. See http://trub.atari8.info/. for more technical details. This manual comprises all features up to version 4.41. More developments and updated manuals are expected for the future. Please take this manual for courtesy: keep ATARI 8 bit computers alive; and enjoy! July 2008 CREDITS - based on works done by: Prof!, MMMG, DLT Ltd. - new code and design: DLT Ltd. - hardware: Pasiu/SSG, Jad, Zenon/Dial, DLT Ltd. - hosting: krap.pl - devtools: DLT Ltd., Tebe/Madteam, others - manual: Mikey, dely, DLT Ltd, GoodByteXL - other support: ABBUC, Epi/TRS, Krap, Mikey, Pin/TRS SpartaDOS X Version 4.41 The Most Powerful 8-Bit Disk Operating System Original by ICD Enhanced Version by DLT Ltd. Revised 2nd Edition – October 2008 Note - throughout this manual: SpartaDOS, SpartaDOS Construction Set, SpartaDOS X, SpartaDOS Tool Kit, F1ashBack!, Multi I/O, MIO, P: R: Connection, Printer Connection, U1traSpeed, US Doubler, ACTION!, MAC/65, BASIC XL, BASIC XE, OS/A+, and DOS XL are trademarks of FTe. The ATARI users community considers these products to be abandonware. ---------- Atari 130 XE, 800XL, 400/800, 810, 850, 1050, XE Game System, XEGS, AtariWriter, and AtariWriter Plus are trademarks of Atari Corp. Abandonware. ---------- ATR8000 is a trademark of Software Publishers, Inc. Status unknown ---------- Percom is a trademark of Percom Data Corp. Out of business. ---------- Axlon RAMPOWER is a trademark of Axlon, Inc. Abandonware. Axlon still existed as a royalty-collecting company in 1999 – Current status unknown. ---------- MSDOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. ---------- UNIX is a trademark of AT&T. ---------- ARC is a trademark of System Enhancement Associates. ---------- Original version published by ICD, Inc. 1988. Last commercial version by FTe 1995. -------------------------------------------------- New Enhanced Version by DLT Ltd. 2008. SpartaDOS X is rated as an abandoned product for more than 10 years. Enhanced and kept alive by the ATARI 8-bit community around the world. Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 An Introduction to SpartaDOS What is DOS? .............................................................................................................. 2-1 SpartaDOS ................................................................................................................... 2-1 The Command Processor ............................................................................................. 2-1 Getting Started ............................................................................................................. 2-1 Formatting a Disk ........................................................................................................ 2-2 Disk Directory ............................................................................................................. 2-3 Creating Test Files ....................................................................................................... 2-3 Setting the Time and Date ........................................................................................... 2-5 Parameters ................................................................................................................... 2-6 Copying Files ............................................................................................................... 2-6 Erasing Files ................................................................................................................ 2-6 Wildcards ..................................................................................................................... 2-7 Directories ................................................................................................................... 2-8 The Current Directory ................................................................................................ 2-10 Running Programs ..................................................................................................... 2-11 BASIC, CAR, and X .................................................................................................. 2-11 Building Batch Files .................................................................................................. 2-12 Practice ...................................................................................................................... 2-13 DOS 2 Equivalents .................................................................................................... 2-13 3 SpartaDOS X Overview Filenames ..................................................................................................................... 3-1 Filename Extensions .................................................................................................... 3-1 Wildcard Characters .................................................................................................... 3-2 Directories ................................................................................................................... 3-3 Pathnames..................................................................................................................... 3-3 Command Length......................................................................................................... 3-4 Device Identifiers ......................................................................................................... 3-5 Default Drive and Directory ........................................................................................ 3-7 Volume Names ............................................................................................................ 3-8 Disk Format Compatibility .......................................................................................... 3-8 Using External Cartridges with SpartaDOS X ............................................................. 3-9 i SpartaDOS X Reference Manual 4 The Command Processor - Commands APPEND Command .................................................................................................... 4-3 ARC (Archive Files) Command .................................................................................. 4-4 ATR (Attributes) Command ........................................................................................ 4-8 BASIC Command ...................................................................................................... 4-10 BLOAD Command .................................................................................................... 4-13 BOOT Command ....................................................................................................... 4-14 CAR Command ......................................................................................................... 4-16 CHDIR (Change Directory) Command ..................................................................... 4-18 CHKDSK Command ................................................................................................. 4-19 CHTD (Change Time/Date Stamp) Command .......................................................... 4-21 CHVOL (Change Volume Name) Command ............................................................ 4-22 CLS (Clear Screen) Command .................................................................................. 4-23 COLD Command ....................................................................................................... 4-24 COMMAND (The Command Processor) .................................................................. 4-25 COMP Command ...................................................................................................... 4-26 COPY Command ....................................................................................................... 4-27 DATE Command ....................................................................................................... 4-30 DELTREE Command ................................................................................................ 4-31 DF Command ............................................................................................................. 4-32 DIR (Directory) Command & DIRS (Short Directory) Command ............................ 4-33 DPOKE Command .................................................................................................... 4-36 DUMP (Display File in HEX Format) Command ....................................................
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