Sinclair ZX Spectrum 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 ................................................. 45 The TapeIO Package ................................................................................................. 45 EXTENDED CHANNELS .................................................................................................. 49 Commands and functions