Graduate Software - Revision history

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‎Links

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‎BUILTIN commands

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‎RSX/ROM Commands

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 == Links ==
-* [[http://futureos.cpc-live.com/ Future OS website, home of ROM Manager and TFM's Accessory ROMs]]
+* [http://futureos.cpc-live.com/ Future OS website, home of ROM Manager and TFM's Accessory ROMs]
 * [https://github.com/cormacj/AmstradCPCRomHacks Python scripts to build your own accessory roms and to patch the CPM rom to update user, address, serial and password message]
 [[Category:Operating System]][[Category:Expansion ROM]][[Category:CP/M]]

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 | CLS || clears the screen just as in BASIC, homes the cursor but does not affect screen mode
 |-
-| DATE || is supposed to display the system date and time. More on this later
+| DATE || is supposed to display the system date and time.
 |-
 | DETAILS || inform you about the system set-up

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 | This RSX command will switch OFF the CP/M Plus expansion ROMs. All other ROMs will be initialiized again.
 |-
 |}

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 | <nowiki>|MYNAME</nowiki>
 | Displays the name of the user/buyer of this set of CP/M Plus ROMs on screen.
 |-
 | <nowiki>|OHELP</nowiki>

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 {| class="wikitable"
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-! RSX
+! scope="col" width="100" | RSX
 ! Details
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 To get their CPM you were required to send them your system discs and essentially they provided a transfer service so they didn't infringe on Digital Research's copyright or distribution policy.
-The ROM they provided had your address and serial number encoded on the ROM.
+The ROM they provided had your address and serial number encoded on the ROM. A script has been written to update these details which can be downloaded from [https://github.com/cormacj/AmstradCPCRomHacks here].
 == RSX/ROM Commands ==
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 * [[http://futureos.cpc-live.com/ Future OS website, home of ROM Manager and TFM's Accessory ROMs]]
-* [https://github.com/cormacj/AmstradCPCRomHacks A python script to update the CPM rom user, address, serial and password]
+* [https://github.com/cormacj/AmstradCPCRomHacks Python scripts to build your own accessory roms and to patch the CPM rom to update user, address, serial and password message]
 [[Category:Operating System]][[Category:Expansion ROM]][[Category:CP/M]]

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	[[TFM]] has written ROMManager which can create these accessory ROMs and he provides downloads on his website for some that he has made himself.		[[TFM]] has written ROMManager which can create these accessory ROMs and he provides downloads on his website for some that he has made himself.
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		+	[[User:Cormacj\|CormacJ]] has written a python script to create accessory ROMS and also extract .COM files from ROMS. You can view this at his [https://github.com/cormacj/AmstradCPCRomHacks?tab=readme-ov-file#make_accessory_rompy AmstradCPCRomHacks] repository

	Some emulators don't support the accessory ROMs because of the non-standard format. Arnold and Caprice32 supports these.		Some emulators don't support the accessory ROMs because of the non-standard format. Arnold and Caprice32 supports these.

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 |-
 | &10
-| 32
+| 22
 | Extension ROM name (note 2)
 |-
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 . Identification: "Graduate (C)1988". Only the first char 'G' is checked.
-. Accessory ROM name is ASCII string terminated with '$'. Graduate's Accessory ROM 1 is called "CP/M Accessory Rom 1\r\n$". You need to provide a description. At a minimum '$' on it's own is ok. The code displays the string and doesn't check if it goes past the space allocated in the ROM.
+. Accessory ROM name is ASCII string terminated with '$'. Graduate's Accessory ROM 1 is called "CP/M Accessory Rom 1\r\n$". You need to provide a description. At a minimum '$' on it's own is ok. The code displays the string and doesn't check if it goes past the space allocated in the ROM. Some documentation notes that this can be 32 characters long, but the Graduate Software roms will only display up to 22 characters.
 . Loading code is required. A dissassembly is shown below. The CP/M ROM executes it. Code is copied from &c070 (length &200) to &3f70 in RAM therefore copying both the loading code and the directory.

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 |-
 | <nowiki>|PW</nowiki>
-| If the password was entered correctly using <code>|PASSWORD</code> then <code>|PW</code> will do nothing. If the password was not entered, or entered incorrectly then it will start CPM, just like <code>|EMS</code>
+| If the password was entered correctly using <nowiki>|PASSWORD</nowiki> then <nowiki>|PW</nowiki> will do nothing. If the password was not entered, or entered incorrectly then it will start CP/M, just like <nowiki>|EMS</nowiki>
 |-
 | <nowiki>|OP</nowiki>
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 |-
 | <nowiki>|OHELP</nowiki>
-| rowspan="2" |  These commands are both identical. They list any CP/M Plus expansion ROMs containing programs (if installed). showing their name and position (ROM number). Using |OHELP,number or |EMSHELP,numberr will display the applications contained in CP/M Plus expansion ROM #number, for example |OHELP,6
+| rowspan="2" |  These commands are both identical. They list any CP/M Plus expansion ROMs containing programs (if installed). showing their name and position (ROM number). Using <nowiki>|OHELP</nowiki>,number or <nowiki>|EMSHELP</nowiki>,number will display the applications contained in CP/M Plus expansion ROM #number, for example <nowiki>|OHELP,6</nowiki>
 |-
 | <nowiki>|EMSHELP</nowiki>

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 |-
-| |NOCPM
+| <nowiki>|NOCPM</nowiki>
 | This RSX command will switch OFF the CP/M Plus expansion ROMs. All other ROMs will be initialiized again.
 |-