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DivIDE Plus User Manual
Table of CONTENTS
NOTICE ................................................................................................................................6
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR SPECTRUM +2A, +2B AND +3 USERS ..........................6
COMPATIBLE ADD-ONS .................................................................................................7
AVAILABLE FIRMWARE................................................................................................7
INSTALLATION OF DIVIDE PLUS ..........................................................................................9
Setting Up ......................................................................................................................10
USING A DISK DRIVE ...................................................................................................10
Compatible Disk Drives ................................................................................................10
Jumper Settings .............................................................................................................10
Use in 128K Mode .........................................................................................................11
Installing Firmware ......................................................................................................11
Loading the Disk Operating System ..............................................................................12
GETTING SOFTWARE ONTO COMPACT FLASH OR A HARD DISK .....................12
Running Problem Games ..............................................................................................12
FATWARE FIRMWARE .................................................................................................13
INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................14
Installing for the first time ............................................................................................14
Using FATWare.............................................................................................................14
RESIDOS FIRMWARE ....................................................................................................15
INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................16
Installing for the first time ............................................................................................16
Upgrading to a new version of ResiDOS ......................................................................16
Installing Packages .......................................................................................................16
SETTING UP YOUR HARD DISK OR COMPACTFLASH ............................................................18
IDEDOS or FAT? ..........................................................................................................18
Setting up a FAT drive ..................................................................................................18
Setting up an IDEDOS drive .........................................................................................19
SWITCHING DISKS OR COMPACTFLASH CARDS ...................................................................20
ENTERING RESIDOS COMMANDS ......................................................................................21
Entering functions .........................................................................................................21
PARTITION MANAGEMENT .................................................................................................22
Creating, deleting and listing partitions .......................................................................22
Automatic drive mappings.............................................................................................23
Mapping drives to partitions .........................................................................................23
DRIVES, DIRECTORIES, PATHS AND USER AREAS.................................................................25
Setting the default drive, user area or path...................................................................25
Creating and deleting directories .................................................................................26
Showing the current location ........................................................................................26
USING FILES IN RESIDOS ...................................................................................................27
Filenames ......................................................................................................................27
Wildcards ......................................................................................................................27
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