System Disk

The Amstrad CPC computers mostly came with included system disks.

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

Contents of the various system disks

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

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