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UIDE Universal IDE adapter cards for Z-80 computers

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/* Transferring software to the PCW */
* Use a serial adapter such as the Amstrad CPS8256 and a copy of KERMIT to transfer over serial.
* Install a 3.5" floppy drive and transfer via floppies. You will need a program such as CPCDiskXP to put PCW disk image files onto the floppy. This program can also copy a downloaded file to a disk image.
* You can use '''cpmtools''' to access files on an image of your uIDE IDE device, and win32diskimager (under Windows) or dd (under linux) to copy the entire image to/from your Z80 machine's IDE device. Read the section below about the uIDE disk image.
There may be other ways to achieve this (such as using a LocoLink cable) but it is out of scope of this WIKI page. If in doubt, ask on the forum.
 
If you have no means to get files onto your PCW from a PC, you can use the BASIC program (below) to create the uIDE driver FID from one of my DOMs or the downloadable image (see below).
=== BASIC program to load the driver from a DOM ===
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