Disc Wizard

The Disc Wizard was an addon from Draysoft & Evesham Micro Centre that allowed you to make dumps of the CPC memory to external storage, pretty much like the Multiface and similar interfaces.

Technical

• Button triggers NMI
• 8K ROM data has 4 regions. There is an NMI vector at &0066, &0866, &1066 and &1866 which indicates each of the 4 regions is selectable and mappable into the range &0000-&7ff. What is not clear is if the regions repeat or not in memory space.

• Region 0 appears to be save using a filename of "DraySoftONE".
• Region 1 appears to be load. It has the text "EVESHAM MICROS PRESENT DISC WIZARD (v1.2) Loading".
• Region 2 appears to be saving for "DraysoftTWO".
• Last appears to be loading for two.

The 1/2 Switch chooses between which 4k, then the load/save chooses between the 2k within that 4k.

• Uses direct FDC disc access for loading/saving.
• Uses an I/O port &f0e0

Pictures

• Draysoft & Evesham Micro Centre Disc Wizard
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  Front View

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  Back View

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  PCB Top

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  PCB_Bottom

• better pics by Terje Grind
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  Front View

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  Back View

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  PCB Top

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  PCB_Bottom

Download

• DiscWizard v1.2 zipped ROM file (ROM image for Emulators)

Links

• Disc Wizard at the English-language Wikipedia (Disc Wizard is mentioned in the Multiface's Similar products section)