== History ==
In Autumn 2004 the '''CPC-IDE''' was developed by [[Dr.Zed]] with support from [[Octoate]] (financial), [[Tolkin]] (financial), [[TFM]] (finding a free port address, bringing Dr. Zed to CPC at first and indirect financial support in for of f.e. an C-programmable calculator etc.) and later [[Prodatron]] (software support in [[SymbOS]]). It was the first released hardware solution ever that allowed connection of IDE harddrives and CF cards to the CPC. Technically the CPC-IDE interface was an independant development, though the idea of splitting 16bit words into two 8bit bytes for the data transfer came from the GIDE IDE interface by Tilmann Reh.
It was fully working, but still in a prototype state, so only 10 pieces have been produced.
During the production of the CPC-IDE [[Prodatron]] joined the team and created IDE-support in [[SymbOS]] for [[Disc_format|FAT]]16 and FAT32 hard discs by Xmas 2004.
After getting it working successfully, [[Dr.Zed]] and [[Prodatron]] made plans for a second version, which includes a lot of more extensions. So the [[SYMBiFACE II]] is not now wasn't merely an IDE interface. It merges , but it merged the CPC with current actual PC technologyat that time (2006).
== Technical ==