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Yes, the A: drive fpr the 9512 is the 80t 2 sided drive, as per the 8512 B: drive. I know very little about the Greaseweazle system, but I understand that the GW needs an operating drive to connect to, so I guess that you would need one in the PCW to receive the (translated ?) data and one to...

Have you got a boot disk for your PCW yet? If not, I should be able to help. I'm in the UK. I've got an image file for the 9512, and I think I've got all the necessary bits as well (incl a boot sector), but writing the image to real disk should be OK. I've got one of the uIDE drives...

Specific questions asked that I missed answering.. I don't know if this varied, but the PCW uses 16k banks, so there are 4 for the normal 64k, plus a number of active switchable ones for screen memory, BDOS, BDOS, etc. The BULK of the RAM though is config as a RAM disk, M:, and this is not...

Hello, I've got my Amstrad PCW still working as a CP/M 3 machine, with 512k of RAM. Various books for the PCW, and published articles from the day, regarding software, show how to use standard routines to mess with the RAM, and swap banks in and out of 'active'. Yes, there is no clear API...

Hello, Not sure about this. There are some references, some very old. Re what you're seeking, note that the 'Small System Services' may be a publisher, from some years ago. For the mag Compute! Not sure they were anything to do with languages. 'SuperSoft' did publish a FORTRAN...

@ablaka, Not sure how far you might get with your W98 machine, but maybe...? You might try a different piece of software, IMD (Image Disk) from ? Dunford. If you have the disk, and your W98 machine has a suitable 5.25" fd, then maybe you could use IMD to make an image of the disk as you will...

OK, good point. The HX needs 16 hrs charge time. Until there's enough charge to achieve anything, then nothing will happen. What does OP mean by 'some hours' of charge? I'd suggest at least 16, with the machine totally OFF. If the machine is ON in ANY way, then prob using charge as fast...

Batteries inside may be totally dead, not taking or holding ANY charge. If so, may be leaking badly, and causing serious damage inside? Can be replaced, if size OK. I've got an HX-20 still working (sort-of) using external rechargeable batteries and Epson PSU. Geoff

Hm, I've got a somewhat larger version of the CPMDISKS definition file that you show, and there's nothing like 'Dennison Carter' in that. Is there any other text on the floppy disk or the pocket? Yes, if you've got ANADISK that could help determine what the actual parameters should be, but...

Don't know if anyone's interested. I've still got a SONY VAIO laptop from about 2000, although it's 'dead'! Was working OK, then ceased. I was told it was something on the MB close to the main power switch, and it was not practical to fix. Machine loaded with XP, and YES, I had created the...

One of my old DOS PCs still has CED installed/operational, I think I still have the shareware disk containing the installable version. No idea which version ##.# system. Worked fine for me. Of similar vintage, I had a system called FORMAT42 which applied an 80t format to DSDD floppy disks...

So, PGM could just be an alternative for .COM? If you run BASIC, and SAVE a prog, what is the file saved as. .BAS? How does this .BAS compare to a normal CP/M .BAS for, say, MS-BASIC? The 22NICE system allows for the running of CP/M progs on a PC. There is a util to convert the prog...

Neil, I have used SAMDisk to write the image PCW9512C.DSK to a 3.5" floppy disk, and the process seems to be OK (although there seems to have been a disk/format problem with the first attempt). The first disk gave a couple errors with Tr 1 and 2, but listed the DIR OK, the second attempt with...

Oh, if you're interested: The reason that site and link did not work for you. But worked fine for me. The forum for the CPC Wiki (and the web site) and the associated sites for the PCW, allow full access for registered members, and maybe you are not so (yet ?). If you register, then I...

Neil, I've used a system called SAMDisk for some years, using it for some tasks like image file conversion, but just wondered it this would write an extended image, and seems that it does. Can't test the disk yet, bit it wrote OK. If you have the software for Simon Owen's SAMDisk, and your...

Hello Neil, I don't know what's happened here. I've just been myself to the thread I linked to (from 2016) and the file referred to PCW9512BOOTDISKS.ZIP (in the third link) has downloaded fine Maybe I still had it on my pc anyway from 2016, but finding it....... So, downloadid it again...

OK, I've found the item I was looking for. https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/do-anybody-have-microsoft-sort-ibm-pcsort.1238802/#post-1311693 This sort of utility allowed the creation of, in effect, an index file to an existing data file, that could then be searched using binary chop...

This was raised on this forum (I think) not very long ago. Someone asked about one of the indexing utilities - a memory resident utility that was loaded, and then called with parameters. I replied referring to another similar system that I had used with CBASIC. Might have been in a...

I think I've found a page with a number of 9512+ images, for systems etc. Try: https://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/nc100-nc200-pcw-pda600/amstrad-pcw-9512-boot-discs/ Note that there are two or three different sets, the first I think turned out to be dud, there are in fact SS images but they need to...

The PCW 9512 SHOULD normally have a 3" drive as referred to above. If as you've just noted the drive is actually a TEAC FD-235HF then this is almost certainly NOT a 3" drive, and is very likely a 3.5" drive. Prob no drive band to worry about. Also, you need a 3.5" version of the boot disk...