AMSDOS, short for Amstrad Disk Operating System, is the disk operating system Locomotive Software wrote for the 8-bit Amstrad CPC computer and its clones. It debuted in 1984 on the CPC 464 with its 3-inch disk drive and later shipped on the CPC 664 and CPC 6128, built into ROM and reached through Locomotive BASIC or firmware calls rather than a command shell of its own. Its main job was mapping the CPC's existing cassette access routines onto a disk drive, so that most cassette software ran unmodified from disk, and it could address up to two disk drives at once. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Discontinued
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1984
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AMSDOS is a disk operating system for the 8-bit Amstrad CPC Computer (and various clones).
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