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Vortex provided a patched version of CP/M 2.2 together with their F1/M1 drives. After a legal dispute with [[Digital Research]], Vortex only provided patches for CP/M 2.2 to enable using their [[Vortex Expansion RAM card|memory expansions]] and [[Vortex Disc Drives|floppy disc drives]].
== Vortex RAM Expansion ==


== Patch for CP/M 2.2 to enable Vortex RAM Expansion ==
Vortex provided a system disc with a file called PATCH.COM on it, which patched Amstrad's CP/M 2.2 so that CP/M could use their RAM expansion to get 63KB TPA.


Vortex provided a disc with a PATCH.COM on it which patched Amstrad's CP/M 2.2, which came with the CPC664, so that CPM could use their RAM expansion to get 63KB TPA.
There were also third party implementations which supported the Vortex RAM Expansion such as [[RCPM]].


== Vortex's implementation of CP/M on Floppy ==
== Vortex Floppy Disc Drives ==


To boot CP/M you need:
=== F1/M1 S- and D-Drive ===
* a CPC464
* VDOS 1.0 on ROM and a Vortex disc interface.
* a 80 track double sided drive A.
* a Vortex 512KB RAM Expansion.


There are other versions of VDOS and other ways to boot their CPM on CPC6128 etc.
Vortex provided a patched version of CP/M 2.2 together with their S- and D-Drives.


== Vortex's implementation of CP/M on Vortex's Winchester WD20 hard disk ==
==== Downloads ====


Vortex's CP/M for their hard disk is CPM2.2 only.
* [[Media:VTXF1464.DSK|F1 S-/D-Drive system disk for CPC 464, bootable CP/M 2.2]] (720k Vortex format)
 
=== F1/M1 X-Drive ===
 
Following a legal dispute with Digital Research, Vortex switched to supplying only patches for CP/M 3.0. The X-Drive came with a system disc containing XPATCH30.COM which patched Amstrad's CP/M 3.0, adding support for the 80-track Vortex disc format. The system disc itself can be modified to boot CPM 2.2 or 3.0.
 
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Cpm22-xdrive.jpg|CP/M 2.2 with Vortex patch applied
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==== Downloads ====
 
* [[Media:VTXF1XB.DSK|F1/M1 X-Drive system disk, patched to boot CP/M 2.2]] (720k Vortex format)
 
== Winchester Hard Disk Drive (WD20) ==
 
There is a patch which adds support for the Vortex WD20 hard disc drive to CP/M 2.2. There was no patch released for CP/M 3.0.


[[Category:Operating System]][[Category:CP/M]][[Category:Vortex Computersysteme]]
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Latest revision as of 07:15, 28 July 2025

Vortex RAM Expansion

Vortex provided a system disc with a file called PATCH.COM on it, which patched Amstrad's CP/M 2.2 so that CP/M could use their RAM expansion to get 63KB TPA.

There were also third party implementations which supported the Vortex RAM Expansion such as RCPM.

Vortex Floppy Disc Drives

F1/M1 S- and D-Drive

Vortex provided a patched version of CP/M 2.2 together with their S- and D-Drives.

Downloads

F1/M1 X-Drive

Following a legal dispute with Digital Research, Vortex switched to supplying only patches for CP/M 3.0. The X-Drive came with a system disc containing XPATCH30.COM which patched Amstrad's CP/M 3.0, adding support for the 80-track Vortex disc format. The system disc itself can be modified to boot CPM 2.2 or 3.0.

Downloads

Winchester Hard Disk Drive (WD20)

There is a patch which adds support for the Vortex WD20 hard disc drive to CP/M 2.2. There was no patch released for CP/M 3.0.