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The Amstrad CPC computers mostly came with system disk(s) included.

The system disks varied in look and content, depending on the CPC-model they came with.

Contents of the various system disks

As the 3" disks in the CPC need to be flipped over in order to access the second side of it, the term "disk" refers to one side of such a physical 3" disk. "Disk 4" is therefore Side B of the 2nd system disk.

CPC464 (DDI-1)

• Disk 1: CP/M 2.2 System and Utilities
• Disk 2: CP/M 2.2 DR LOGO & Help
  • Disk 2 also contains a game demo (RUN"ROINTIME.DEM")
  • The system disk contains the utilities
    • COPYDSK
    • DSKCOPY
    • CHKDSK
    • DSKCHK
    • DSKFORM

for copying, verifying (checking) and formatting disks with one or two disk drives

CPC664

• Disk 1: CP/M 2.2 System and Utilities
• Disk 2: CP/M 2.2 DR LOGO & Help
  • Disk 2 also contains a product demonstration in local language
  • The system disk contains the utilities
    • COPYDSK
    • DSKCOPY
    • CHKDSK
    • DSKCHK
    • DSKFORM

for copying, verifying (checking) and formatting disks with one or two disk drives

CPC6128

• Disk 1: CP/M Plus System and Utilities
• Disk 2: CP/M Plus Utilities
• Disk 3: DR LOGO & Help (CP/M Plus)
• Disk 4: CP/M 2.2 with DR LOGO & Help
  • Disk 4 also contains a product demonstration in local language (For Germany: Two variants of the product demonstration exist, one for Schneider (-1988) and one for Amstrad (1988-)
  • The system disks contain the utilities
    • DISCKIT3 (CP/M Plus)
    • DISCKIT2 (CP/M Plus)

for copying, verifying and formatting disks with one or two disk drives

• An archive with disk images of English, French, German (Schneider) and German (Amstrad) CPC6128 system disks can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/cpc/utils/cpc/cpmplus.zip

CPC6128plus

• Disk 1: CP/M Plus System and Utilities
• Disk 2: CP/M Plus DR LOGO & Help
  • The system disk contains the utilities
    • DISCKIT (CP/M Plus)

for copying, verifying and formatting disks with one or two disk drives

Look of the various system disks

CPC464 (DDI-1)

United Kingdom

• Label text in English
• Green stripes on the label

France

• Label text in ???
•  ??? stripes on the label

Spain

• Label text in ???
•  ??? stripes on the label

Germany (Schneider)

• Label text in German
• Silver stripes on the label, Schneider logo
• Text on side 2 refers to the DDI-1 manual for the license conditions

Germany (Amstrad)

• Label text in German
• First charge probably b/w copied labels, later charges ???
• Text on side 2 refers to the DDI-1 manual for the license conditions

CPC664

United Kingdom

• Label text in English
•  ??? stripes on the label

France

• Label text in ???
•  ??? stripes on the label

Spain

• Label text in ???
•  ??? stripes on the label

Germany (Schneider)

• Label text in German
• Silver stripes on the label, Schneider logo
• Text on side 2 refers to the CPC664 manual for the license conditions

Germany (Amstrad)

• When Amstrad took over the German market, the CPC664 wasn't sold anymore

CPC6128

United Kingdom

• Label text in English
• Violet stripes on the label

France

• Label text in English
• Orange stripes on the label

Spain

• Label text in ???
•  ??? stripes on the label

Germany (Schneider)

• Label text in German
• Silver stripes on the label, Schneider logo

• Schneider CPC6128 system disk labels
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Germany (Amstrad)

• Label text in German
• First charge b/w copied labels, later charges ???

CPC6128plus

Worldwide

• Label text in English
• Red stripes on the label

Weblinks

• CPC6128 system disks (UK/FR/DE (Schneider)/DE (Amstrad)): ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/cpc/utils/cpc/cpmplus.zip