I hope the title is self-explanatory, but here is some context.
There are gazillions of ROMs for the CPC, old or new. CPCWiki does a great job listing them, but it's hard to know which one would be useful now.
So, if you can tell about the ROMs you like and why, I would greatly appreciate that.
I've seen a similar thread in the past, but I guess it's worth refreshing.
According to Nostramstradus, 2021 will be a CPC year.
I'll start:
- Orgams. I use it for all my Z80 coding activities. Hard to beat, according to Targhan! Also comes with a very handy |BURN.
- CubeMDos. Fat is standard (SymbOs compatible), saving is fast. I can live with the current bugs!
- YANCC. I tend to prefer Symbos to deal with files, yet still useful from time to time (and faster to kick in than Symbos+Shell) .
- Ovl ROM (occasional DAMS use for smart MachineCode -> Labelled Source. Also, CPCT.
- SymbOs. Nice shell for file handling. Much interested by its network capabilities, but not exploiting them right now.
- ImpDraw. Best bitmap tool yet!
- Utopia. Only for Romoff / RomOn.
- ParadosV10 for the occasional floppy/HxC copy (extremely rare).
- CPM+ to try quickly try some CP/M tools.
- Hackit. Extremely rare use since almost entirely superseded by Monogams.
- CubeMDos. needed for my Symfibace III
- LambdaSpeak III RSX for use this hardware
- M4FE Frontend Rom for the M4
- YANNC , norton commander clon
- Maxam Rom
- Muzak Rom Soundtracker Player
- os6128_mod_spanish.rom for lower rom under M4
* 1: Dobbertin R-DOS to have a 444 KB RAM disc
* 2: LambdaSpeak ROM for the LS
* 3: Maxam 1.15 to have an assembler
* 4, 5: Protext (and it's expansion ROM, not used that often, but it's there)
* 5: - sometimes - V-DOS to drive my double 5,25" Vortex drive with 1,4 MB (= 2x 700)
* 6: X-DDOS to have the great !COPY command and to access my hard disc
* 6: - sometimes - M4 ROM
* 7: Amsdos/Parados
* (10, 16-18): FutureOS
* (19-22): Expansion ROMs for FutureOS, TextEditor, ROManager, Apps, Wallpaper...
Greater projects like Orgams and iMPdraw get installed temporarily, this depends what's needed in the hour of usage. :) :) :)
All assigned to fkeys, ignore the scripts.
This was the state of play back in 95 for a combined business/games 6128 Plus.
And courtesy of repairs by @Bryce (https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=225) it is the state of play today :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWaxjJof9_Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWaxjJof9_Y)
For 21st century usage most of these Rom's are used for examining 25/30 year old discs/disks and file transfer from 3" to 3.5" or sometimes file transfer to Gotek.
DES - for looking thru the contents of 3.5" PCW format disks.
DosCopy - for looking thru the contents of PC format disks
Parados - mass file copying
Nirvana - for copying "naughty" formats that won't run from drive B.
CPM - guess what?
Vidi - for loading screens from some games and slideshows
Protext - used in writing the text for some of my YT videos
Utopia - romon/romoff
Graph'OS
GOS+
Utopia
Hacker (real hardware)
Multiface.
STarKos
DiscoMagic
Orgams
Roman
-Orgams (Best Assembler ever!)
-UniDos
-AlbiDos
-iMPdraw
-iMPdos
-Arkos ROM (Hello Targhan)
-Hackit
my roms:
on my CPC Plus:
- Impdos
- Impdraw
- Orgams
- Roman
- M4 rom
- AlbiDos
on over :
- Impdos
- Impdraw
- Orgams
- FutureOS
- orgams
- impdos
ouais i'm loser :)
- impDOS
- impDRAW
- Orgams
- ROMAN 2.0
- RPM
- Multi Mark
Happy to see impact's team use iMPdos. :P
Anyone else ?
Just to know if i must still share future update here ? Tell me.
Quote from: Ast on 17:52, 20 January 21
Happy to see impact's team use iMPdos. :P
Anyone else ?
Just to know if i must still share future update here ? Tell me.
Me, too. :)