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'''COSMOS''' is a personal cost monitoring system written '''COS'''t '''MO'''nitoring '''S'''ystem programed by [[KSL|KSL]]. It runs under for the CPC6128 and [[CP/M|CP/M]]-80 operating system, the latter being the industry standard of the late 70s - early 80s.<br><br>It This budget monitoring system is a personal business application similar to the MSDOS-era PC applications and probably one of the largest most recent (2021) projects ever developed for CP/M.<br><br>The application requires 63 KB of TPA Unlike most applications for CP/M, minimum 128 KB of total RAM COSMOS is built upon the '''mouse based graphics user interface''' as pioneered by Xerox at Palo Alto and two disc drives.<br><br>Furthermore, it supports popularized by Apple with the Dobbertin Hard Disk Lisa and the RAM expansionMacintosh computers. Nowadays, includes Graphics and a user friendly GUI COSMOS can be used on an everyday basis (using [[AMX MouseCaPriCe]], provides or [[WinCPC]] or a 16-color screen saverreal CPC) in order to edit the daily income, supports high capacity external drives, deals with plan the serial monthly expenses and parallel ports of perform trial and error analyses aiming at maximizing the CPC and provides CPC-to-PC communication via RS232Cannual profit.<br><br> It Notice that COSMOS also includes a user friendly installation utility.<br><br>A typical COSMOS project requires min 350 KB of disc space.<br><br>Version 23 of COSMOS, which was released in 2017, is contains the final latest version of this project for the moment![[ASCII Tools]].<br><br>

Version 24 COSMOS has been developed on the basis of the hardware peripherals as well as the software that were (contemporary) available for the CP/M and the CPC6128: the 512 KB [[Dobbertin Memory Expansion]], the [[ParaDOS]] or [[X-DDOS]] ROMS for the external (800 KB) floppy drive, the 20 MB [[Dobbertin Harddisc]], the [[Amstrad Serial Interface]], the Amstrad Parallel [[Printer Port]], the [[CTM640/CTM644]] colour monitor, the [[AMX Mouse]], the [[MicroScript]] (142 KB), the [[WordStar]] (706 KB), the [[Protext]] (406 KB), the [[Multiplan]] (208 KB), the [[SuperCalc 2]] (240 KB), the [[DBase II]] (272 KB), the [[DR Draw]] (235 KB), the [[DR Graph]] (306 KB), the [[MAXAM]] (206 KB), the [[Atlast Plus]] (224 KB) and other [[Programming software]]. COSMOS includes its own graphics routines (similar to [[GSX]]), is under developmentbased on the [[Dobbertin]] version of CP/M 2.2 (v1.2) which provides 59 KB TPA, supports the RAM expansion and the 20 MB hard disk. <br><br> In addition to the command and chain files, COSMOS original disc also contains the CP/M 2.2 (v1.2) boot sectors as well as an installation utility. By executing the latter utility (A>SETUP) the user can initialize any annual project or start a temporary project in order to become familiar with the COSMOS user interface and functions. Upon installing COSMOS in drive B or HD20 it is suggested to execute COSMOS using all the available extra RAM (no RAM load minimization) and to use a new empty CP/M 2.2 (v1.2) boot disk in drive A as the redundant disk. A full annual project of COSMOS, including the user attachments, the user block of invoices, the summary files as well as the user agenda notices requires minimum 350 KB of disc space. <br><br> As far as the controls are concerned, '''Cursor keys''' or '''Mouse''' can be used in order to control the pointer. '''[F0]''' key simulates the left button of the mouse, whereas '''[F.]''' key simulates the right button of the mouse. Left button can be used for (Yes), whereas the right button can be used for (No),(Next) or (On-Board) help. ESC key can be used to quit. <br><br>  '''To download the final version of COSMOS (v.27/November 2021) use the link located at the bottom of this page.''' <br>'''Boot CP/M 2.2 v1.2 using the original COSMOS disk and execute A>SETUP.COM.''' <br><br> The project is completed.

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