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I was asked by a customer how to ensure that his Spectrum+3 with DivIDE Plus always started up with ResiDOS and with the 128K +3 BASIC editor.

Having investigated this, the best solution is still to use the firmware selector from Tygrys which we supply - you can select ResiDOS and 128K mode and the Spectrum will then always launch with this firmware installed.

Moving on, to get the 128K BASIC editor (rather than a 48K editor), I see that you need to install either the Gosh Wonderful BASIC ROM (http://www.wearmouth.demon.co.uk/) or SE BASIC (Can someone provide a current link to SE BASIC).

Once installed with:

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CLEAR 32767
%INSTALL "gw03.rom",1
%ROM "gw03"

You then get given a 128K editor as soon as the Spectrum starts up.

I saved this on the Compact flash card as BASIC.bas, so I could just use:

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LOAD %"BASIC.bas"

to reinstall the Gosh Wonderful BASIC when I had to reinstall ResiDOS.

Much easier to type on a +3 Spectrum now!

Just one issue then - how to get files from a +3 disk to a compact flash card.
It looks as though the only solution is to upgrade to a +3e ROM set - once I do this, can someone then please advise on the commands to use to copy a file from disk to the CF card, as I am not sure I understand the +3e instructions?

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I have also found that there is a much easier way of copying BASIC files from disk to CF card, than needing to change to +3e ROMs...

Unfortunately, both of the commands to disable ResiDOS do not work properly under Gosh Wonderful BASIC

OUT 23,0 - this just hangs the Spectrum
%ZX - this resets the Spectrum, but then goes into ResiDOS and hangs during the drive initialisation.

So what you have to do is:

1. Restart the Spectrum, holding down 1 if you have the firmware selector installed, so that you can go into FATware.
2. Select ResiDOS and reinstall it from scratch with:

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LOAD ""

3. You will have to make do with the 48K editor for the next bit....

4. Disable ResiDOS with the command

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%ZX

5. Load your program from 3" disk with

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LOAD "program"

(LOAD is on the letter J)

6. Re-enable ResiDOS with the command:

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OUT 23,104

( OUT is SHIFT, Extended Mode, O)

7. Now save your progvram to the compact flash card with:

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SAVE  %"Test.bas" LINE 1

(SAVE is on the letter S, LINE is SHIFT, Extended Mode, 3))

-- Repeat steps 4 to 7 until you hae copied your programs across.

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Once you have all of the files across from disk onto the CF card, you can then re-install the Gosh Wonderful BASIC with

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LOAD %"BASIC.bas"

(see I knew there was a reason for storing that program on the CF card).

You may then want to use

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%autorun+ "test.bas"

to force the Spectrum to run your program from CF card as soon as it is switched on.

Remember you can switch it off with

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%autorun-