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Cold start
To perform a cold start without powering off your ZX Spectrum, press the reset-button and hold the SPACE key
while resetting.
This will reinitialize ESXDOS.
Using drive names
Drives are named according to their type and partition number: sd0 for the first SD card.
Using ‘*’ in
commands will point to the SD card currently in use.
You can see a list of drive names when ESXDOS runs its initial BIOS drive detection (on a cold start).
Using directory names
You can use the name of directories in all commands, and use ‘/’ at the sta
rt of the directory to point to the
root of the SD card.
For example:
LOAD *”/sys/
AUTOBOOT.BAS
” –
this loads AUTOBOOT.BAS from whatever directory you are currently in.
.cd /sys/config
–
this will set the current directory tot /SYS/CONFIG
New BASIC commands
On all BASIC commands that use a drive parameter, you can use * for the current drive.
[…] means it’s an optional parameters.
GOTO [drive] ["path"]
Example:
GOTO hd0"demos"
This will change the current drive and directory to hd0:/demos.
You can use it to change the current drive, dir, or both.
CAT [drive]
Example:
CAT, CAT *, CAT hd1
Without specifying a drive a fast CAT is done (no speccy header info is displayed).
LOAD drive "path/filename" [CODE]|[SCREEN$]
Example:
LOAD *"/test/blabla", etc
SAVE drive "path/filename" [LINE]|[CODE]|[SCREEN$]
Example:
SAVE *"filename" SCREEN$, etc
ERASE [drive] "path/filename"
Example:
ERASE *"filename", etc
