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<div>'''Siren Software''' was a long-established and successful vendor of CPC hardware and software.<br />
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Founded by Simon Cobb, who had previously worked for Lothlorien and then [[Ocean]] Software, the company sold Simon's own programs, those of others, and some where the rights were purchased from other companies.<br />
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The company continues to trade specializing in video editing for PCs.<br />
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[[image:Siren AA100.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Advertisement in Amstrad Action (issue 100)]]<br />
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== Hardware ==<br />
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* [[Hackit]] (known as 'Le Hacker' in France)<br />
* A ROM-board<br />
* 3.5in disc drives<br />
* Disc interface unit (like the DDI-1)<br />
* [[Sound Blaster]] (Stereo Amplifier/Speakers)<br />
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== Software ==<br />
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* [[Cherry Paint]]<br />
* [[Copytape]]<br />
* [[Discology]] (English version)<br />
* [[Discovery]]<br />
* [[Discovery Plus]]<br />
* [[Handyman]]<br />
* [[Master Disc]]<br />
* [[Nemesis]] and Nemesis Express<br />
* [[Print Master]]<br />
* [[RAMDOS]], [[ROMDOS]] (both originally from [[KDS]]) and [[ROMDOS XL]]<br />
* [[Utility Disc]]<br />
* [[Tape Utility]]<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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[http://www.sirentechnology.co.uk/ Siren Technology]<br />
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[[Category:CPC related companies]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=ROMDOS&diff=104845ROMDOS2020-02-14T10:38:10Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Category:Expansion ROM]]<br />
[[category:Disc Operating System]]<br />
ROMDOS was the most successful high-capacity disc operating system (DOS) published for the CPC. Originally developed by [http://www.tyndalearchive.com/Brewer/author.htm Dave Instone-Brewer] for [[KDS]], it was later resold by [[Siren Software]].<br />
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ROMDOS shipped on a single 16k ROM, though a RAM-resident version, RAMDOS, was also available. The ROM was essentially a modified version of the standard AMSDOS ROM, with support added for 80-track and double-sided formats. As a result, the format of the disc was detected automatically, just like standard AMSDOS - a big improvement over competing systems such as [[MS800]].<br />
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However, because most of the code was still the copyright of [[Locomotive Software]], ROMDOS performed a check on start-up that the original AMSDOS ROM was still present in slot 7. If not, it would refuse to initialise. This meant that the many machine code programs which began by initialising ROM 7 (alone) could not take advantage of the ROMDOS formats. Theoretically this would also have applied to CP/M, but KDS supplied patches that allowed ROMDOS to be used under CP/M Plus.<br />
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One quirk of ROMDOS was the enlarged directories. It was possible to save so many files on a ROMDOS disc that the 2k buffer used by the CAT command would fill up. Consequently, to see all the files on the disc, you either had to move the files into different user areas, or use |DIR (which did not sort the files so consequently needed no 2k buffer).<br />
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== ROMDOS formats ==<br />
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* D1<br />
* D2<br />
* D10<br />
* D20<br />
* D40 (not supported by RAMDOS)<br />
* D80 (not supported by RAMDOS; also used by [[S-DOS]] and [[400K/S]])<br />
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Details (from a [[comp.sys.amstrad.8bit]] posting by [[Executioner]], needs sorting out):<br />
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<pre>Straight from the source code for ParaDOS: <br />
.forms ;first sect, BSH, LSB of DSM <br />
;form enable, sects <br />
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db #91,#04,#c7,#fc,10,#c6,"80",#ff ;1. PARADOS 80 <br />
db #81,#03,#cc,#ff,#8a,#c6,"41",#ff ;2. PARADOS 41 <br />
db #a1,#04,#c7,#fa,10,#c6,"40D",#ff ;3. PARADOS 40D <br />
db #01,#04,#67,#f8,9,#c2,"1",#ff ;4. ROMDOS D1 <br />
db #21,#04,#67,#f8,9,#c2,"2",#ff ;5. ROMDOS D2 <br />
db #11,#04,#8f,#f8,10,#c2,"10",#ff ;6. ROMDOS D10 <br />
db #31,#04,#8f,#f8,10,#c2,"20",#ff ;7. ROMDOS D20 <br />
db #51,#04,#c7,#fa,10,#c2,"40",#ff ;8. ROMDOS D40 <br />
db #71,#04,#c7,#fc,10,"S-DOS",#ff ;9. S-DOS (ROMDOS D80) <br />
db #c1,#03,#b3,#ff,9,#c4,#c7,#ff ;10. DATA (SS 40) <br />
db #c1,#04,#b3,#2a,9,#c4,#c8,#ff ;11. DATA (DS 40) <br />
db #c1,#04,#b3,#4c,9,#c4,#c9,#ff ;12. DATA (SS 80) <br />
db #c1,#05,#b3,#f8,9,#c4,#ca,#ff ;13. DATA (DS 80) <br />
db #41,#03,#aa,#ff,9,#c3,#c7,#ff ;14. SYSTEM (SS 40) <br />
db #41,#04,#ae,#2a,9,#c3,#c8,#ff ;15. SYSTEM (DS 40) <br />
db #41,#04,#ae,#4c,9,#c3,#c9,#ff ;16. SYSTEM (SS 80) <br />
db #41,#05,#b0,#f8,9,#c3,#ca,#ff ;17. SYSTEM (DS 80) <br />
db #01,#03,#9b,#ff,8,#c5,#c7,#ff ;18. IBM (SS 40) <br />
db #01,#04,#9d,#2a,8,#c5,#c8,#ff ;19. IBM (DS 40) <br />
db #01,#04,#9d,#4c,8,#c5,#c9,#ff ;20. IBM (SS 80) <br />
db #01,#05,#9e,#f8,8,#c5,#ca,#ff ;21. IBM (DS 80) <br />
db #10,#03,#cc,#ff,#8a,#d0,#ff ;22. ULTRAFORM <br />
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== ROMDOS XL ==<br />
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ROMDOS XL was an enhanced version of ROMDOS, with additional features by [[Simon Cobb]] of [[Siren Software]]. Its main enhancement was a built-in file management utility, with copying, formatting and other such functions.<br />
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The file management utility suffered from severe limitations, such as a maximum 40k file size for copied files. In addition, the changes introduced some severe bugs to ROMDOS, initially including a loss of automatic format detection.<br />
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Though some of these bugs were later removed, ROMDOS XL never regained its place in the market, and [[ParaDOS]] became the most popular high-capacity DOS. Whereas in Germany the famous [[X-DDOS]] was the most popular DOS.<br />
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== Manual ==<br />
* [[File:Ramdos.pdf|Manual]] <br />
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== Adverts ==<br />
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* ACU Jan 1989 page 15.<br />
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== Download ==<br />
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* [[media:RomDOS .zip|ROM DOS ROM]]<br />
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* [[media:Rdosxl40.zip|ROM DOS XL 4.0 ROM]]<br />
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* [[media:Rdosxl48.zip|ROM DOS XL 4.88 ROM]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=User:ChaRleyTroniC&diff=29842User:ChaRleyTroniC2009-02-24T02:50:06Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>I'm ChaRleyTroniC / [[Systeme D|Systeme D]], sometimes known as Richard Fairhurst: ex-[[Amstrad Action|Amstrad Action]] freelance technical editor, [[Robot PD|Robot PD]] proprietor, [[BTL|BTL]] and [[WACCI|WACCI]] editor, and coder of loads of stuff including [[RoutePlanner|RoutePlanner]], [[PowerPage|PowerPage]], [[ChaRleyTraCker|ChaRleyTraCker]] and so on. <br />
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I have a working 664 once again (hooray) but sadly no 3.5in drive on it... yet.<br />
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Homepage and blog at http://www.systemeD.net/.</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Catloc&diff=29801Catloc2009-02-22T19:16:05Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>A Greek CPC demo coder and fanzine writer. Catloc stood for "Chris Archontides, The Legend On CPC".<br />
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== Released Demos ==<br />
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*[[Camembert Meeting Demo|Camembert Meeting Demo<br><br>]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Simon_Forrester&diff=15459Simon Forrester2007-04-19T14:41:32Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[category:CPC scene members]]<br />
[[Amstrad Action]] staff writer, previously known by the pseudonyms Squerf and Boo! The Ghost.<br />
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Simon was originally a member of [[STS]], after meeting [[Hangman]] through AA's regular Helpline feature. When the staff writer job at AA fell vacant, [[ChaRleyTroniC]] - AA technical writer and also an STS member - encouraged Simon to apply. He continued to work on AA until the final issue, 117.<br />
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After that, he worked for a number of other [[Future Publishing]] magazines and websites; a Bath-based company called FYI, and their site gamecampaign.com; and Bath-based web designers [http://www.zehuti.com/ Zehuti].<br />
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== Releases ==<br />
* [[BooTracker]]<br />
* [[Safesoft Disc Archiver]]<br />
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===Unfinished projects===<br />
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* Boo! The Ghost Construction Kit<br />
* Fractal compressor</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Bulletin_boards&diff=14024Bulletin boards2007-01-19T09:53:49Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>== Bulletin boards with significant CPC sections ==<br />
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* [[Aspects BBS]]<br />
* [[Preston ROS]]<br />
* [[Supe's Motel]]<br />
* [[WACCI BBS]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=DJL&diff=13551DJL2007-01-05T00:15:26Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>DJL (Dave J Looker) was the author of the [[Speedlock]] protection system, used on many cassette games released in the UK. Speedlock was a modified version of the [[Spectrum]]'s cassette routines with protection added.<br />
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As the protection system continued to evolve, programs such as [[Soft-Lok]] and the [[Bonzo]] suite were upgraded to break the protection.<br />
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A separate disc protection system, [[8k Speedlock]], relied on the fact that the CPC's hardware could reliably read but not write 8k sectors. To get around this, the [[Executioner]]'s utility [[Xexor]] included a 'brain file' solution to crack individual games before copying them.</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Executioner&diff=13550Executioner2007-01-04T23:57:56Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Games */</p>
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<div>'''Executioner''' is a coder from Australia. His most popular productions are [[ParaDOS]] and [[WinApe]].<br />
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==Productions==<br />
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===Emulators===<br />
* [[CPCEMU (RWCPC)|CPCEMU]] - I wrote this and called it CPCEMU before I'd heard of CPCEMU by [[Marco Vieth]]. Now commonly known as [[CPCEMU (RWCPC)|RWCPC]]<br />
* [[WinApe]]<br />
* [[JEMU]]<br />
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===Serious Software===<br />
* [[Xexor]] - Disc editor and copy utility<br />
* [[ParaDOS]] - Extended DOS, replacement for AMSDOS with built-in utilities<br />
* [[Electro Forth]] - A complete Forth implementation I developed for fun<br />
* [[ZACK]] - Unfinished game creator software. Everything got finished except the sound/FX and completed game loader/multi-load code.<br />
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===Games===<br />
* [[Electro Invaders]]<br />
* [[Kiloroid]] - 1K Asteroids for Minigame competition<br />
* [[KTris]] - 1K Tetris clone for Minigame competition<br />
* [[4KRoids]] - 4K version of Kiloroids. Unfinished, but playable.<br />
* [[Pacman]] - A Pacman clone<br />
* [[Cobra Mission]] - Sample game with [[ZACK]]<br />
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===Other===<br />
* The River Scroll demo<br />
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[[Category:CPC scene members]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Run_Length_Encoding&diff=13549Run Length Encoding2007-01-04T23:56:19Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>Run Length Encoding is a very simple form of file compression. It compresses long sequences of the same byte to an indicator code, byte value, and count. For example, 48 spaces (character code &20) might be encoded as &E9 &30 &20, assuming the indicator code was &E9.<br />
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CPC programs to use RLE techniques included:<br />
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* [[SQ23]]<br />
* [[Crunch]] by [[Crown]]<br />
* [[Newsweep]] ([[CP/M]])<br />
* [[PowerPage]] (for saved pages)<br />
* [[Stop Press]] (for clip art)<br />
* [[MicroDesign]] (for all saved graphics)<br />
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Later compression programs (such as [[Cheese]] and [[Columbia]]) used the more advanced [[LZW]] algorithm.</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=RLE&diff=13548RLE2007-01-04T23:53:03Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: Redirecting to Run Length Encoding</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Run Length Encoding]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=ComSoft&diff=13547ComSoft2007-01-04T23:52:23Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: Redirecting to Campursoft</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Campursoft]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Almost_PD&diff=13546Almost PD2007-01-04T23:50:23Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>'Almost PD' was a licence popular in the mid-1990s for British public domain software. First introduced by [[Robot PD]], it was subsequently taken up by several more authors.<br />
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An 'Almost PD' program had no restrictions placed on individual copying or use, but the author's permission was required before it could be distributed by PD libraries.<br />
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The licence is roughly similar to the modern [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/nl/ Creative Commons By-NC-ND] (attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives) with the caveat that commercial use (typically distribution by [[PD libraries]]) would be permitted provided permission was obtained from the author.</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=SD_Microsystems&diff=12333SD Microsystems2006-12-10T17:04:31Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>SD Microsystems was a serious software house based in the UK, established in 1985 and run by [[Steve Denson]]. It remained a supporter of the CPC long after most comparable businesses had ended their CPC lines. Indeed, it still lists some CPC products for sale in the 'clearance' section of its website, although all other sales have stopped. It also continues to supply consumables such as 3in discs and [[DMP-2000]] printer ribbons.<br />
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The company took over LocoScript Software in 1999, thereby laying claim to be the inheritor of the [[Locomotive Software]] tradition. It consequently owns the copyright to [[Locomotive BASIC]], [[AMSDOS]] and the CPC firmware.<br />
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== Releases ==<br />
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* [[Super Labeller]]<br />
* [[Page Publisher]]<br />
* [[400K/S]]<br />
* [[Graph Master]]<br />
* (many more)<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://www.sdmicro.co.uk/ SD Microsystems' website]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=12332Main Page2006-12-10T16:53:24Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Did you know? */</p>
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'''Star-Division''' was a software house from Lüneburg, Germany, founded in 1984 by Marco Börries. Well known for its software StarOffice, it was bought by Sun Microsystems on August 5th, 1999.<br />
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StarOffice itself developed from the StarWriter word processor, released for the CPC in 1985 and for DOS the year later. When Sun bought StarOffice, they released it as open source under the name OpenOffice, and continued to maintain their own version as StarOffice. The two are now the second most popular productivity suite for Windows, and the most popular for Linux. <br />
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== Releases for CPC ==<br />
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* [[Mouse Operating System (M.O.S.)]] (1987)<br />
* [[StarWriter]] (1985)<br />
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== External links ==<br />
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* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice History at Wikipedia.de] (German-language)<br />
* [http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/index.jsp Sun StarOffice page]<br />
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[[Category:CPC related companies]] [[Category:Stub]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Malibu_Crackers&diff=12330Malibu Crackers2006-12-10T16:39:10Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Members */</p>
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<div>'''Malibu Crackers''' is a demomaker group created in 1989 by [[P007]] and [[Naminu]]<br />
[[Naminu]] and [[Pict]] will leave the team for [[Logon System]] at the end of 1989<br />
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== Members ==<br />
* [[P007]]<br />
* [[Naminu]]<br />
* [[Pict]]<br />
* [[Mad Murdock]]<br />
* others to complete...<br />
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== Productions ==<br />
* [[Malibu Demo 1]]<br />
* [[Malibu Demo 2]]<br />
* [[Malibu Demo 3]]<br />
* [[Malibu Demo 4]]<br />
* [[Amazing Demo]]<br />
* [[Intox]]<br />
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[[Category:Scene group]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Malibu_Crackers&diff=12329Malibu Crackers2006-12-10T16:38:29Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Productions */</p>
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<div>'''Malibu Crackers''' is a demomaker group created in 1989 by [[P007]] and [[Naminu]]<br />
[[Naminu]] and [[Pict]] will leave the team for [[Logon System]] at the end of 1989<br />
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== Members ==<br />
* [[P007]]<br />
* [[Naminu]]<br />
* [[Pict]]<br />
* others to complete...<br />
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== Productions ==<br />
* [[Malibu Demo 1]]<br />
* [[Malibu Demo 2]]<br />
* [[Malibu Demo 3]]<br />
* [[Malibu Demo 4]]<br />
* [[Amazing Demo]]<br />
* [[Intox]]<br />
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[[Category:Scene group]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Fire_Engine_demo&diff=12327Fire Engine demo2006-12-09T23:37:31Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>The Fire Engine demo was a pornographic split-screen animation attributed to [[Roo-dolph]]. It used a 16-colour monochrome palette best suited to the [[Plus]] machines. However, although the digitised images in the demo were photographs of [[Roo-dolph]], the code is generally believed to be written by other members of the [[STS]] group.</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=BTL_Info&diff=12313BTL Info2006-12-08T13:47:17Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Image:BTLFANZD screen shoot 1.jpg|thumb|300px|BTL Info]]<br />
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'''BTL Info''' is a simple British demo written to promote the [[BTL]] disc fanzine, which had not yet then been released. Code was by [[The Equalizor]] with graphics and scrolltext by [[Akira]].<br />
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Release date: December 1993<br />
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[[Category:Demos]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=BTL_Info&diff=12312BTL Info2006-12-08T13:46:53Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Image:BTLFANZD screen shoot 1.jpg|thumb|300px|BTL Info]]<br />
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'''BTL Info''' is a simple British demo written to promote the [[BTL]] disc fanzine, which had not yet then been released. Code was by [[Hangman]] with graphics and scrolltext by [[Akira]].<br />
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Release date: December 1993<br />
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[[Category:Demos]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=The_Lawnmower_Man&diff=12311The Lawnmower Man2006-12-08T13:45:54Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>The Lawnmower Man (Daniel Heatley) was co-proprietor of [[Quantum Computing]]. He was frequently known as 'Daniel Heapley' after a misspelling in ''[[Amstrad Action]]''.<br />
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His driving was frequently ridiculed in [[BTL]].</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Divine_Coding&diff=12177Divine Coding2006-12-06T23:23:32Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>Divine Coding (Robin Tanner) was a CPC coder and member of [[Système D]].<br />
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== Productions ==<br />
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* [[DSK-CPC]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Palm_Coding&diff=12176Palm Coding2006-12-06T23:23:02Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>Palm Coding (Joe Moulding) was a British coder, musician and PD librarian. He ran the [[Sleepwalker PD]] library and released several excellent games. He later became a member of [[Système D]], but released only one demo before leaving the CPC.<br />
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== Productions ==<br />
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* [[Last of the Smileys]] (game)<br />
* [[Blip! Music]] (demo)<br />
* several others</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Frequency&diff=12175Frequency2006-12-06T23:21:09Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>Frequency (Simon Crump) was a UK-based musician, coder and member of [[Système D]]. His music, generally produced using [[Soundtrakker]], was little known but achieved some of the highest quality ever produced on the CPC - not least with his astonishingly faithful recreations of game tunes.<br />
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== Productions ==<br />
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* [[Audio Illusions]] demo<br />
* various others</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=The_Lawnmower_Man&diff=12174The Lawnmower Man2006-12-06T23:19:10Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>The Lawnmower Man (Daniel Heatley) was co-proprietor of [[Quantum Computing]]. He was frequently known as 'Daniel Heapley' after a misspelling in Amstrad Action.</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Daniel_Heatley&diff=12173Daniel Heatley2006-12-06T23:18:24Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: Redirecting to The Lawnmower Man</p>
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<div>#redirect [[The Lawnmower Man]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=STS&diff=12172STS2006-12-06T23:17:18Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* STS members */</p>
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<div>UK CPC group established circa 1989 by [[Rob Scott|Hangman]]. STS, for Secretsoft Technical Services, was a general CPC coding and cracking group rather than specifically a demo-group. Several of the most well-known members of the early 1990s UK Amstrad scene took part in STS. STS's slogan was "STS - it's a load of old w-nk", complete with accompanying theme tune which could occasionally be heard in issues of [[BTL]].<br />
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STS continues in the form of [[Hangman]]'s Leatherhead computer shop, [http://www.stscomputers.co.uk/ STS Computers].<br />
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== STS members ==<br />
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Among STS's members have been the following:<br />
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* [[Hangman]] (Rob Scott)<br />
* [[Ratz]] (Simon Matthews)<br />
* [[The Architect]] (Mike Wheeler)<br />
* [[Simon Forrester|Squerf]] (Simon Forrester)<br />
* [[ChaRleyTroniC]] (Richard Fairhurst)<br />
* [[Roo-dolph]] (Adam Shade)<br />
* [[Wild Thang]] (Richard Wildey)<br />
* [[The Mad Scientist]] (Chris Smith))<br />
* [[Barney Rubble]] (Paul Fairman)<br />
* [[The Equalizor]] (also a member of the [[Lords of Justice]])<br />
* [[Doctor Fegg]] (also a member of the [[Lords of Justice]])<br />
* [[Wulf]] (also a member of the [[Lords of Justice]])<br />
* [[Executioner]] (Richard Wilson)<br />
* [[Doc]] (Simon Green)<br />
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STS's 'spin-off' group of less ethical members was occasionally known as the [[Lords of Justice]].<br />
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== STS Software ==<br />
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Several commercial programs were released under the STS Software banner. These included [[Soft-Lok]], a Speedlock transfer utility.<br />
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STS also released PD programs such as Lockcopy-85 and Lockcopy-88, and a small number of demos and intros.<br />
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== Songs ==<br />
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* '''STS Theme Tune''':<br />
** STS - it's a load of old wank<br />
** Let's kick [[Derek Hyland]] in / Twat him with a rolling pin / Celebrate with a double gin / Stupid twat!<br />
* '''I Like PD''' (to the tune of 'I Like Chinese' by Monty Python):<br />
** I like PD / I like PD / It's very nearly almost free / And it only takes 20 years to get to meee...<br />
* '''Get Out of the Way''' (to the tune of the Addams Family theme):<br />
** Get out of the way (boink, boink) / Get out of the way (boink, boink) / Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way<br />
** The M4 pile-up started / When [[Daniel Heatley]] farted / To jail he was carted / When the police caught up with him<br />
** They were asphyxiated / By the gas his guff created / The superintendent stated / That he's a proper crim<br />
** He phoned up [[Simon Cobb]] / But he was on the job / The twat had stuck his nob / Into Big Bitch's quim<br />
** Get out of the way (boink, boink) / Get out of the way (boink, boink) / Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way<br />
* '''Smells Like David Carter''' (to the tune of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit')<br />
** Most lyrics lost to posterity, but excerpts included:<br />
** What is this excuse for an abortion? / It's David Carter, treat with caution / Where has his granny really gone? / We fed her to a cyclotron / Demo, demo, demo demooooo...<br />
* '''Scully in the Dirt'''<br />
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[[Category:Scene group]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=ChaRleyTroniC&diff=12171ChaRleyTroniC2006-12-06T23:13:42Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Demos */</p>
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<div>'''ChaRleyTroniC''' or '''CRTC''' (Richard Fairhurst) is a British CPC programmer and writer. He is a member of [[STS]] and [[Systeme D]], and was previously a member of [[Conspiracy]] and [[Discovery]]. Born in September 1974, he is still working as a magazine journalist.<br />
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He appeared in the [[BTL]] 4 Reservoir Dogs intro as "Mr Blue".<br />
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== Activities ==<br />
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* Owner of the [[Robot PD]] library.<br />
* Technical writer and covertape editor for [[Amstrad Action]].<br />
* Demo article writer for [[CPC Attack!]].<br />
* Editor of the [[BTL]] disczine.<br />
* Last editor of the [[WACCI]] fanzine.<br />
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== Software (commercial) ==<br />
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* [[RoutePlanner]] - journey planning<br />
* [[Pro-Ext]] - Protext printing extensions<br />
* [[S-DOS 2]] - 720k disc software<br />
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== Software (public domain) ==<br />
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* [[Columbia]] - crunching utility<br />
* [[PowerPage]] - desktop publishing<br />
* [[Sanko]] - Protext RTF export<br />
* [[ChaRleyTraCker]] - music editor (unreleased)<br />
* [[Fidelity]] - WYSIWYG Protext extensions (unreleased)<br />
* [[Charley's Comms ROM]] - comms software (unreleased)<br />
* and several zillion more<br />
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== Demos ==<br />
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* CRTC demos 1-6.5 (juvenilia: see [[CRTC Robot PD Demo]], [[CRTC Demo 5]], [[CRTC Music Demo 1]])<br />
* [[CRTC demo 7]]<br />
* [[CRTC demo 8]]<br />
* [[Inspiration]]<br />
* [[MacBugs]]<br />
* [[Palatine]] (unreleased)<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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* [[User:ChaRleyTroniC|CPCwiki user page]]<br />
* [http://www.systemeD.net Home page]<br />
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[[Category:CPC scene members]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=CRTC_Demo_5&diff=12170CRTC Demo 52006-12-06T23:12:51Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Image:CRTC-5 screen shot 1.jpg|thumb|300px|CRTC Demo 5]]<br />
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'''CRTC Demo 5''' is a British demo by [[ChaRleyTroniC]]. Enormously simple - just a MODE 1 scrolling message using the standard character set - it was nonetheless the first CRTC demo not to be written in BASIC and hence embarrassingly bad.<br />
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Release date: 16-07-1990<br />
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[[Category:Demos]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=CRTC_Music_Demo_1&diff=12169CRTC Music Demo 12006-12-06T23:11:59Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Image:CRTCMUSI screen shot 1.jpg|thumb|300px|CRTC Music Demo 1]]<br />
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'''CRTC Music Demo 1''' is a British demo by [[ChaRleyTroniC]], simply containing two tunes - 'Electro', an original composition, and a version of Mike Oldfield's 'Platinum (Airborne)'.<br />
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Release date: 26-01-1990<br />
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[[Category:Demos]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=CRTC_Robot_PD_Demo&diff=12168CRTC Robot PD Demo2006-12-06T23:09:11Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Image:CRTCROPD screen shot 1.jpg|thumb|300px|CRTC Robot PD Demo]]<br />
[[Image:CRTCROPD screen shot 2.jpg|thumb|300px|CRTC Robot PD Demo]]<br />
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'''CRTC Robot PD Demo''', also known as CRTC demo 4, is a demo by [[ChaRleyTroniC]].<br />
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As an early, mostly BASIC demo, with only a limited amount of Z80 code, the effects are very poor. It did, however, inspire [[Dino]] to produce an (equally unimpressive) retaliatory demo for some of the comments directed to [[Scull PD]] in the demo texts.<br />
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Release date: ?<br />
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[[Category:Demos]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=The_Mad_Scientist&diff=12167The Mad Scientist2006-12-06T23:07:20Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>The Mad Scientist (Chris Smith) was a UK coder, and member of [[STS]] and [[WACCI]].<br />
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He founded and ran the [[WACCI BBS]], a bulletin board using [[ROS]] software. He also contributed to demos such as the [[STS Music Demo]].</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Da_Silva&diff=11974Da Silva2006-12-05T15:09:11Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: Redirecting to DSC</p>
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<div>#redirect [[DSC]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=ECS&diff=11973ECS2006-12-05T15:07:18Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>ECS was a German demo coder with extreme far-right (Nazi) views.<br />
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These views were highly unpopular elsewhere and led to forthright criticism in other people's productions, such as the [[ECS Story 2]] demo and a demo by [[ESC]] - who was worried that the similarity of pseudonyms might lead to confusion.<br />
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[[Category:Stub]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=ECS_Story_2&diff=11971ECS Story 22006-12-05T15:05:40Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Image:ECS-STO2 screen shot 1.jpg|thumb|300px|ECS Story 2]]<br />
[[Image:ECS-STO2 screen shot 2.jpg|thumb|300px|ECS Story 2]]<br />
[[Image:ECS-STO2 screen shot 3.jpg|thumb|300px|ECS Story 2]]<br />
[[Image:ECS-STO2 screen shot 4.jpg|thumb|300px|ECS Story 2]]<br />
[[Image:ECS-STO2 screen shot 5.jpg|thumb|300px|ECS Story 2]]<br />
[[Image:ECS-STO2 screen shot 6.jpg|thumb|300px|ECS Story 2]]<br />
[[Image:ECS-STO2 screen shot 7.jpg|thumb|300px|ECS Story 2]]<br />
[[Image:ECS-STO2 screen shot 8.jpg|thumb|300px|ECS Story 2]]<br />
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'''ECS Story 2''' is a demo by [[BBS]] and [[TFC]] directed against fellow CPC coder [[ECS]].<br />
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Release date: 08-01-1990<br />
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[[Category:Demos]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=DSC&diff=11970DSC2006-12-05T15:03:47Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Dsc.jpg|thumb|DSC in 2000]]<br />
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'''DSC''' (Christoph Morgenroth) - Da Silva Computing - was a swapper and organiser of the german CPC scene. He was the founder of [[BENG!]] and organised the Euro Meeting 3 in 1993 in Wuppertal, Germany.<br />
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== Groups ==<br />
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* [[PDW]]<br />
* [[BENG!]]<br />
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[[Category:CPC scene members]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Roland&diff=11605Roland2006-12-01T14:31:18Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>Roland was Amstrad's idea of a recurring character in very early Amsoft games. Other computer games of the mid-1980s frequently employed such a device, such as the Miner Willy character in [[Manic Miner]] and [[Jet Set Willy]].<br />
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Roland was both an anagram of [[Arnold]], the codename for the CPC, and the first name of CPC designer [[Roland Perry]].<br />
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Appearances in (Very Incomplete List):<br />
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* [[Roland Ahoy]]<br />
* [[Roland Goes Digging]]<br />
* [[Roland in Space]]<br />
* [[Roland in the Caves]]<br />
* [[Roland in Time]]<br />
* [[Roland on the Ropes]]<br />
* [[Roland Takes a Running Jump]] (type-in from [[Computing with the Amstrad]]?)</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=User_talk:86.13.172.22&diff=11356User talk:86.13.172.222006-11-26T23:32:15Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>Hello Philip :) --[[User:ChaRleyTroniC|ChaRleyTroniC]] 00:32, 27 November 2006 (CET)</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=MAXAM&diff=10255MAXAM2006-11-06T17:22:56Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>Maxam is a popular assembler for the CPC, made by the British company [[Arnor]]. It was available in three versions.<br />
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== Maxam ==<br />
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Maxam was the original version, available on tape, disc or ROM.<br />
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Assembly language programs could be entered either using the built-in editor, or 'inline' in a BASIC program (in a similar fashion to that permitted by the BBC Micro), and then assembled by Maxam.<br />
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The program also contained a disassembler plus a number of simple memory management and debugging tools, such as a hex editor and graphical memory overview. These were available by typing |MAXAM or |M, and (unusually) could be run in either MODE 1 or MODE 2.<br />
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* [http://www.kjthacker.f2s.com/docs/maxam.pdf Maxam documentation] (PDF)<br />
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== Maxam 1.5 ==<br />
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Maxam 1.5 (available on ROM only) omitted the editor from the original Maxam. Instead, users were expected to write their program in Arnor's highly capable word-processor, [[Protext]], which included a special PROGram mode for such tasks. A simple ASM command from Protext would assemble the current program.<br />
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The assembler part of Maxam 1.5 was similar to the original Maxam, but some significant improvements were made, principally in the area of breakpoints and debugging.<br />
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Maxam's clear syntax, reliable operation, and instant access via ROM made it the standard assembler for the UK market. In particular, the excellence of the Protext editor combined with the reliability of Maxam made the Protext/Maxam 1.5 combination the single most commonly used assembler in the CPC's latter years.<br />
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But although significantly faster than most of its English-language competitors, it was much slower than [[DAMS]], the leader in the French market. Today, the Maxam syntax lives on in [[WinAPE]]'s built-in assembler/disassembler.<br />
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* [http://www.kjthacker.f2s.com/docs/maxam15.pdf Maxam 1.5 documentation] (PDF)<br />
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== Maxam II ==<br />
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[[Maxam 2|Maxam II]] was a CP/M Plus version with a greatly expanded feature set. Though it never became as popular as Maxam 1.5 for the CPC, it was popular with [[PCW]] users.<br />
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[[Category:Programming software]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Programming_software&diff=10248Programming software2006-11-04T22:54:31Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Hacking */</p>
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<div>== Assemblers ==<br />
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* [[ADAM]] ([[Audiogenic Software Ltd.]])<br />
* [[Dams]] (MicroApplication)<br />
* [[Gena]]<br />
* [[KIO-Fox-Assembler]] ([[Günter Woigk]])<br />
* [[Maxam]] ([[Arnor]])<br />
* [[Pasmo]] ([[Julian Albo]])<br />
* [[Turbo Ass|Turbo Ass (TASS)]] ([[Exodus]])<br />
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== Hacking ==<br />
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* [[AntiMultiface]]<br />
* [[ERE Hacking Tools]] ([[GPA]])<br />
* [[Firebird loader toolkit]] ([[GPA]])<br />
* [[FutureOS Monitor]] ([[TFM]])<br />
* [[KBI Cracker]]<br />
* [[Loriciel to Disk]] ([[GPA]])<br />
* [[Master toolkit]]<br />
* [[Mastertronic to Disk]] ([[GPA]])<br />
* [[Runstrad decoder 1990]] ([[GPA]])<br />
* [[Soft-Lok]] ([[STS]])<br />
* [[Soundhakker]] ([[The Equalizor]])<br />
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== Compilers & Interpreters ==<br />
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=== C ===<br />
* [[Arnor C]] ([[Arnor]])<br />
* [[HiSoft C]]<br />
* [[Hi-Tech C compiler]]<br />
* [[SDCC]]<br />
* [[Small C]]<br />
* [[ZCC]] (Ken Yap)<br />
* [[Z88DK]]<br />
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=== Basic ===<br />
* [[BBC Basic]]<br />
* [[E-BASIC]]<br />
* [[Locomotive BASIC]]<br />
* [[Microsoft BASIC]]<br />
* [[Digital_Research|Digital Research]] [[CBASIC Compiler]]<br />
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=== Forth ===<br />
* [[Forth]]<br />
* [[Kuma_Computers|Kuma Computers]] [[Kuma FORTH]]<br />
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=== Pascal ===<br />
* [[HiSoft Pascal]]<br />
* [[Turbo Pascal|Borland Turbo Pascal]]<br />
* [[Digital_Research|Digital Research]] [[PASCAL/MT|PASCAL/MT+]]<br />
* [[Poly Pascal]]<br />
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=== Logo ===<br />
* [[Logo]]<br />
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=== Unsorted ===<br />
* [[BCPL]]<br />
* [[Comal]]<br />
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== Libraries ==<br />
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* [[B-ASIC]] ([[Logon System]])<br />
* [[FIOLIB]] ([[TFM]])<br />
* [[CPCIOLIB]] (Juergen Weber)<br />
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== Utilities ==<br />
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* [[DamsConverter]] ([[POW]])<br />
* [[FAst BAsic COMpiler]] ([[DMV]])<br />
* [[SuperMonitor]] ([[Crown]])<br />
* [[TurboSuperMonitor]] ([[POW]])<br />
* [[XBDS]] ([[DMV]])<br />
* [[TommyGun]]<br />
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[[Category:Programming software|*]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=In_Full_Effect&diff=10146In Full Effect2006-10-31T16:19:27Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>[[Image:Full logo.GIF|right|thumb|250px|In Full Effect's cracktro]]<br />
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English cracker(s?) active from 1988 to 1990.<br />
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In Full Effect was a member of the group [[Mach II]] and was based in Sheffield. He released a demo as well as several cracks.<br />
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Another, similar demo to the IFE demo was later released by 'Maktoo'; it seems likely that IFE was Mach II's sole member and later renamed himself Maktoo.<br />
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[[Category:CPC scene members]][[Category:Stub]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Bitmap_Vandels_Demo_1&diff=9559Bitmap Vandels Demo 12006-10-21T15:17:53Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: Redirecting to Demoware</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Demoware]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Demoware&diff=9558Demoware2006-10-21T15:17:33Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>Demoware was a megademo by the [[Bitmap Vandals]]. Coded by [[Obi]] and [[LDC]], it was a poor production with much ripped code. Release date: 19 January 1992.<br />
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== Parts ==<br />
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* '''Part 1''' consisted of a badly-drawn "Bitmap Vandals" logo with some pretty circling rasters behind, and some hacked music. This would have been quite good, except that it was blatantly ripped from a demo by Cach.<br />
* '''Part 2''' displayed Gremlin and Ocean logos, as "thanks" for using their music. The colours chosen were completely inappropriate, as a result of Obi drawing them on a green-screen monitor, 'phoning up [[Wild Thang]] for "transcriptions", and deliberately being given the wrong values.<br />
* '''Part 3''' showed a less than great Demoware logo, with the music from WEC Le Mans. It then turned into a flickery [[Vorspann]] demo without a scroll text. <br />
* '''Part 4''' started with a picture of a red sports car - credited to Obi "92 (sic), but actually ripped from a [[Tim Blackbond]] slideshow. The headlights flashed on and off by repeatedly decompressing two screens. Music was by [[Weee!]], but had been so badly hacked that half of the instrument sounds were knackered. Obi claimed that it was a remix. <br />
* '''Part 5''' was pretty much the same, but with a picture of a girl with golf clubs sticking out of her head, bizarrely. Quite well-drawn, but the wrong colours again... <br />
* '''Part 6''' was a Vorspann demo "by" [[LDC]] (David Long), with a revolting "Magic Demo" logo. <br />
* '''Part 7''' was an all-time classic. There was a 16x16 scroll with music, supposedly coded by Obi. However, if you took a sector editor to it, you found that Obi's scrolltext was inexplicably followed by a short section of German, crediting the [[42-Crew]]. Surely it couldn't have been ripped? On pressing a key, a Vorspann scroll started up, followed by the 16x16 scroll again with Obi's memorable offer to swap his GT65 for your CTM644.<br />
* Finally, '''part 8''' was a credits message with (gasp) Vorspann rasters behind it.<br />
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<gallery caption="Demoware - screenshots"><br />
Image:BIT-VAND screen shot 1.jpg|Part 1<br />
Image:BIT-VAND screen shot 2.jpg|Part 4<br />
Image:BIT-VAND screen shot 3.jpg|Part 5<br />
Image:BIT-VAND screen shot 4.jpg|Part 6<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Reviews ==<br />
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In the never-released issue 9 of [[Artificial Intelligence]], a review of Demoware contained this classic quote:<br />
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"Bitmap Vandals Demoware has been variously described as crap, shite, utter toss and the best program in Demon PD"<br />
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== Parody ==<br />
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A parody of Demoware was released called Demowank, which was effectively the same demo but with altered scrolltexts.<br />
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[[Category:Demos]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Make3DFrame&diff=9111Make3DFrame2006-10-09T19:56:31Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: here, software means CPC software unless explicitly stated ;)</p>
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<div>[[Image:Make3DFrame_1.gif|thumb|Main editor]]<br />
[[Image:Make3DFrame_2.gif|thumb|Sequence editor]]<br />
[[Image:Make3DFrame_3.gif|thumb|Objects editor]]<br />
Make3DFrame is a Windows application that enables the user to easily create 3D animations on the CPC.<br />
This small tool is intended for people wishing to integrate 3D animations in a demo.</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Made&diff=9078Made2006-10-07T09:45:39Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Productions */</p>
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<div>'''Made''' was a graphic artist from the french CPC scene. He was very talented, and when he later switched to the 16bit scene, he won a lot of competitions.<br />
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== Productions ==<br />
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* [[Disc Full]] (10 issues, french fanzine)<br />
* [[39Kb Shock]] Rebels - Code: PacMan / Gfx: Made<br />
* [[Digital Orgasm]] Symbiosis production<br />
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== Groups ==<br />
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* [[Disc Full]] (1989-1994)<br />
* [[Rebels]] (1991-1993)<br />
* [[SymbiosiS]] (1993-1994)</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=One&diff=9075One2006-10-06T17:38:30Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Releases */</p>
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<div>''One'' was a coder from France.<br />
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== Releases ==<br />
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* '''Demos'''<br />
** One's Plasma Demo<br />
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* '''Utilities'''<br />
** [[Cocoon Player]] (1995)<br />
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[[Category:CPC scene members]]</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Disc_format&diff=9054Disc format2006-10-05T09:00:21Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Standard CPC disc formats */</p>
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<div>CPCs could read discs formatted in three separate ways. Several high-capacity disc operating systems existed to add new formats to the three standard ones.<br />
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== Standard CPC disc formats ==<br />
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* '''Data''': 180k single-sided. 40 tracks of nine 512-byte sectors each. Sectors numbered &C1 to &C9. 64 directory entries. Can also be read by [[PCW]]s. The useable capacity is 178k.<br />
* '''System''': 180k single-sided. 40 tracks of nine 512-byte sectors each. Sectors numbered &41 to &49. 64 directory entries. Two reserved tracks containing CP/M BIOS. The useable capacity is 169k.<br />
* '''IBM''': 160k single-sided. 40 tracks of eight 512-byte sectors each. Sectors numbered &01 to &08. Provided for compatibility with CP/M-86 (and DR-DOS 1.0). Used by very few CPC purchasers, but Locomotive Software stated that this was invaluable for cross-assembly. The useable capacity is 158k.<br />
* '''Vendor''': Term used for System format discs with no software in the reserved tracks. The useable capacity is 169k.<br />
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== Third-party CPC disc formats ==<br />
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* [[FAT]] formats (invented by MS-DOS; supported by [[SymbOS]], [[DOS Copy]], [[ReadDSK]], [[SymDOS]], [[DSK-CPC]])<br />
* [[MS800]] formats<br />
* [[Stream2#MoDOS|Prem]] format (supported by [[Stream2]])<br />
* [[RODOS]] formats<br />
* [[ROMDOS]] formats (also supported by [[ParaDOS]]: D80 supported by [[S-DOS]] and [[400K/S]])<br />
* [[Ultraform]]<br />
* [[Xexor]] formats (also supported by [[ParaDOS]])<br />
* XD-DOS etc.??<br />
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== References ==<br />
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* http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/amsform.html<br />
* http://www.wacci.org.uk/magazine/138/138_08.html</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Disc_format&diff=9053Disc format2006-10-05T07:47:25Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: /* Third-party CPC disc formats */</p>
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<div>CPCs could read discs formatted in three separate ways. Several high-capacity disc operating systems existed to add new formats to the three standard ones.<br />
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== Standard CPC disc formats ==<br />
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* '''Data''': 180k single-sided. 40 tracks of nine 512-byte sectors each. Sectors numbered &C1 to &C9. 64 directory entries. Can also be read by [[PCW]]s. The useable capacity is 178k.<br />
* '''System''': 180k single-sided. 40 tracks of nine 512-byte sectors each. Sectors numbered &41 to &49. 64 directory entries. Two reserved tracks containing CP/M BIOS. The useable capacity is 169k.<br />
* '''IBM''': 160k single-sided. 40 tracks of eight 512-byte sectors each. Sectors numbered &01 to &08. Provided for compatibility with CP/M-86 (?). The useable capacity is 158k.<br />
* '''Vendor''': Term used for System format discs with no software in the reserved tracks. The useable capacity is 169k.<br />
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== Third-party CPC disc formats ==<br />
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* [[FAT]] formats (invented by MS-DOS; supported by [[SymbOS]], [[DOS Copy]], [[ReadDSK]], [[SymDOS]], [[DSK-CPC]])<br />
* [[MS800]] formats<br />
* [[Stream2#MoDOS|Prem]] format (supported by [[Stream2]])<br />
* [[RODOS]] formats<br />
* [[ROMDOS]] formats (also supported by [[ParaDOS]]: D80 supported by [[S-DOS]] and [[400K/S]])<br />
* [[Ultraform]]<br />
* [[Xexor]] formats (also supported by [[ParaDOS]])<br />
* XD-DOS etc.??<br />
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== References ==<br />
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* http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/amsform.html<br />
* http://www.wacci.org.uk/magazine/138/138_08.html</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=KDS_Electronics&diff=9031KDS Electronics2006-10-04T20:09:46Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>A UK-based hardware firm.<br />
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== Hardware ==<br />
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* [[KDS Electronics Serial Interface]]<br />
* [[KDS Electronics Power Controller]]?<br />
* [[KDS Electronics 5 1/4" Disc Drive]]?<br />
* [[KDS Electronics 8-Bit Printer Port]]<br />
* [[Mini-Max Modem]]<br />
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== Software ==<br />
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* [[RAMDOS]] and [[ROMDOS]] (later resold by [[Siren Software]])</div>ChaRleyTroniChttps://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php?title=Mini-Max_Modem&diff=9030Mini-Max Modem2006-10-04T20:08:55Z<p>ChaRleyTroniC: </p>
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<div>A 1200 baud modem sold by UK peripherals firm [[KDS Electronics]].<br />
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The following description was found on an eBay listing:<br />
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"This is an Original Extremely rare 1200 bps modem for the Amstrad CPC series of computers. The package consists of a serial ROM interface containing KDS Comm 5 software, once plugged into the expansion bus of the Amstrad the ROM is immediatly recognised and starts up the Comms software for the Modem from the integrated ROM. A lead is supplied to comnnect the actual Modem to the ROM Interface. <br />
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"The Modem comes with a built in mains connection lead and standard telephone lead, Once plugged into the mains and connected to the interface and a telephone connection the modem is ready for use, all software is built into the interface no discs or tapes are required (or supplied).<br />
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"The modem is a full duplex modem with settings for ANS, CCITT,ORIG, 1200-75 75-1200 ORIG, Bell and ANS. Red LEDs on the front display TX (transmission) RX (receive) Carrier and power. The software can be used with the presets already contained on ROM or user defined settings ( a basic knowledge of comms will be useful here) and includes a telephone book for you to store and use telephone numbers.<br />
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"The interface is provided with a through connector to allow you to plug in other expansion devices at the same time (i.e. DD1 disk drive, digitiser, EPROM writer) It certainly works fine with the DD1 connected and i have had a ROMBO VIDI connected at the same time without any problems."</div>ChaRleyTroniC