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== Vortex provided a patched version of CP/M 2.2 together with their [[Vortex Disc Drives|F1/M1 disc drives]]. After a legal dispute with [[Digital Research]], Vortex switched to only provide patches for CP/M 2.2 to enable using their [[Vortex RAM Expansion RAM card|memory expansions]] and [[Vortex Disc Drives|floppy disc drives]].==
== Vortex provided a disc with a PATCH.COM on it which patched Amstrad's CP/M 2.2, which came with the CPC664, so that CPM could use their RAM expansion to get 63KB TPA.Floppy Disc Drives ==
== Vortex's implementation of CP= F1/M on Floppy M1 S- and D-Drive ===
=== F1/M1 X-Drive === Following a legal dispute with Digital Research, Vortexswitched to supplying only patches for CP/M 3.0. The X-Drive came with a system disc containing XPATCH30.COM which patched Amstrad's CP/M 3.0, adding support for their hard the 80-track Vortex disc format. The system disc itself can be modified to boot CPM 2.2 or 3.0. <gallery>Cpm22-xdrive.jpg|CP/M 2.2 with Vortex patch applied</gallery> ==== Downloads ==== * [[Media:VTXF1XB.DSK|F1/M1 X-Drive system disk , patched to boot CP/M 2.2]] (720k Vortex format) == Winchester Hard Disk Drive (WD20) == There is CPM2a patch which adds support for the Vortex WD20 hard disc drive to CP/M 2.2 only. There was no patch released for CP/M 3.0.
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