Does the programmer's name sound vaguely French? In fact, Serge is better known as Longshot, leader of the famous French demo-group Logon System. Logon demos are renowned for being the best on the CPC, and Magic DOS is no exception. To use the extra capacity of 3.5" drives, as sold by companies such as Siren Software and GVL Microform, large format software is required. Usually this costs at least £10 (for the simplest software, such as MS800) and can in fact cost even more for really top-notch programs like ROMDOS and Xexor. Magic DOS, though, could cost you under one quid, and you won't suffer for paying less. In fact. Magic DOS is very similar to MS800, as it works in the same way - it just sets up the XPB (tech-speak for the parameters which tell AMSDOS what sort of format you want to use) and disappears. There are options to format and to copy files from 3" discs onto the 3.5" drive, which - thankfully for such a necessity - is very easy to use. Using Magic DOS, you can get a massive 820k per disc. If you don't own a side switch, you'll need to buy one if you want to use all the capacity of the discs: as with most software (with the exception of ROM/RAMDOS and Xexor), it can't switch sides itself. However, when software which does almost exactly the same costs about nine pounds more, it really does make sense to try Magic DOS first. One interesting footnote for 128k and Multiface users: when used in conjunction with another one of Serge's programs, Anti-Multiface, you can store as many Multifaced programs on a 3.5" B-drive as will fit into 820k, and the friendly MENU.BAS program supplied with Magic DOS will run them perfectly. This is a boon for those of you who have a large collection of tape games, and want to store the disc-ed versions as cheaply as possible. CPC ATTACK!  
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Page créée en 740 millisecondes et consultée 1798 foisL'Amstrad CPC est une machine 8 bits à base d'un Z80 à 4MHz. Le premier de la gamme fut le CPC 464 en 1984, équipé d'un lecteur de cassettes intégré il se plaçait en concurrent du Commodore C64 beaucoup plus compliqué à utiliser et plus cher. Ce fut un réel succès et sorti cette même années le CPC 664 équipé d'un lecteur de disquettes trois pouces intégré. Sa vie fut de courte durée puisqu'en 1985 il fut remplacé par le CPC 6128 qui était plus compact, plus soigné et surtout qui avait 128Ko de RAM au lieu de 64Ko. |
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