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Anyway, a few additional things are available.
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**Installation:**
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- AlbiDOS can work in any ROM slot but should always be in a slot with a lower number than AMSDOS (for a better user experience !).
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- AlbiDOS can work in any ROM slot but, for a better experience, it should always be in a slot with a lower number than AMSDOS or other compatible DOS (such as iMPdos).
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- AlbiDOS can work in two different modes (the current mode is displayed at boot screen):
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- Integrated: AMSDOS was found in a higher slot number and all fallback and compatibility mecanism are installed.
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- Standalone: AMSDOS was not found an AlbiDOS will just handle Albireo drives (no fallback is possible).
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- AlbiDOS can also be installed in ROM slot 7 for maximum compatibility (some old softwares are relying directly on ROM slot 7 to handle DOS instead of using system-friendly way). In that case you should install AMSDOS to slot 15 to ensure its memory allocation is always &A700 (also for maximum compatibility).
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- AlbiDOS can also be installed in ROM slot 7 for maximum compatibility (some old softwares are relying directly on ROM slot 7 to handle DOS instead of using system-friendly way).
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- In that case you should install AMSDOS to slot 15 to ensure its memory allocation is always &A700 (also for maximum compatibility).
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- Any additional AMSDOS compatible DOS (such as iMPdos) should be then installedbetween 7 and 15 (to take advantage of AlbiDOS RSX passthrough feature).
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- This is the better way to have softwares which are manually initializing ROM 7 as DOS to work on MicroSD card or USB stick through AlbiDOS.
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- Also, when softwares are manually initializing ROM 7 as DOS, AlbiDOS will automatically find and initialize AMSDOS too, so that if that software was started from floppy, it will continue to work normally from floppy. Additionally, AlbiDOS retains the current drive, so that badly coded softwares which are expecting floppy drive A will now also work from drive B.
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- Please note that ParaDOS cannot be installed in slot 15 (it will crash). If you want to use AlbiDOS and ParaDOS together your are stuck with ParaDOS in slot 7 (better) or 6, and AlbiDOS in a slot between 1 and 6.
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