== Vortex provided [[Vortex Disc Drives#Downloads|a patched version of CP/M 2.2]] together with their F1/M1 S- and D-Drives. After a legal dispute with [[Digital Research]], Vortex switched to only provide patches for CP/M 2.2 to enable using their [[Vortex RAM Expansion RAM card|memory expansions]] and [[Vortex Disc Drives|floppy disc drives]].==
== Patch for Vortex provided a system disc with a file called PATCH.COM on it, which patched Amstrad's CP/M 2.2 to enable Vortex so that CP/M could use their RAM Expansion ==expansion to get 63KB TPA.
Vortex provided a disc with a PATCH.COM on it There were also third party implementations which patched Amstrad's CP/M 2.2, which came with supported the CPC664, so that CPM could use their Vortex RAM expansion to get 63KB TPAExpansion such as [[RCPM]].
== Vortex's implementation of CP/M on Floppy Disc Drives ==
To boot CP=== F1/M you need:* a CPC464* VDOS 1.0 on ROM M1 S- and a Vortex disc interface.* a 80 track double sided drive A.* a Vortex 512KB RAM Expansion.D-Drive ===
There are other versions Vortex provided a patched version of VDOS and other ways to boot CP/M 2.2 together with their CPM on CPC6128 etcS- and D-Drives.
== Vortex's implementation of CP/M on Vortex's Winchester WD20 hard disk == Downloads ====
* [[Media:VTXF1464.DSK|F1 S-/D-Drive system disk for CPC 464, bootable CP/M 2.2]] (720k Vortexformat) === 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 their hard the 80-track Vortex disc format. The system disc itself can be modified to boot CPM 2.2 or 3.0. <gallery>Cpm22-xdrive.jpg|CP/M 2.2 with Vortex patch applied</gallery> ==== 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 CPM2a patch which adds support for the Vortex WD20 hard disc drive to CP/M 2.2 only. There was no patch released for CP/M 3.0.
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