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spectrumcompouting forum ZXDog64 OS

I suggest you keep reading if you have a grub/grub2 or windows XP bootloader. If you have plain windows it might be very easy to very frustrating to use the ZXDog64 Operating System.

>First you must download a 2.6GB file and unzip it to the root folder.

>From desktop locate a folder named ZX and then execute from there :sgd10000_DOSemu.desktop
>Also you can try SPECBas ,Basin,Fuse,RetroVirtualMachine etc...
(some file will not work because I haven't uploaded them yet- eg sgd205*.desktop need my ROMS file that is 1.3GB).




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-ZXDog is a portable OS. At the moment I have put it on an external USB3 SDD and it is much quicker than my internal HDD.
-Installation : This is uses frugal install : just copy the folder in the root of your HD/USB... (1 catch : you must have grub/grub2 based bootloader).If you still have windows XP then it is even easier to use!
-You can have as many installation as you want in the same drive (just use different folder names!).
-It is actually a Debian Live OS. You can use Debian libraries.

Why I use/suggest this:
-This will boot in any 64bit PC old or new (your only concern will be the bootloader -bootable USB will not have issues).
-It used RAM (especially if you have the EXIT parameter). This mean that you need 1GB+ RAM but you will have very good speed.
-It is LEGO-like! Most of the programs are contained in a file (*.squasjfs). The file can be shared with the community and works with just copying in inside the OS folder!
[img]https://i.ibb.co/PDRjjWN/ZXDogOS.png[/img]

ZXDog64_part1.zip   https://1fichier.com/ ?u5yu8n2qx5dwssxqaqll
ZXDog64_part1_addon_fix01.zip   https://1fichier.com/ ?r8xgn2yll1xcrgm8kuqv


Installation:
Have somehow a grub/grub2 bootloader. This is the tricky part (since windows 10/11) ( hint you can start from https://github.com/noryb009/lick -if you're lucky)
a)Unzip ZXDog64_part1.zip so you have ZXDog64 folder in the root of your USB/HDD (any partition).
b)From the ZXDog_part1_addon_fix01.zip copy the file "zx_desktop_stuff_v01f.squashfs" inside /ZXDog64/live path.

You locate the lickmenu.lst (grub) or lickmenu.cfg (grub2) files and add the following lines :

Bootloader entries :
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grub 1 based:
title ZXDog64 -lickmenu.lst NO Changes.dat
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /ZXDog64/live/initrd1.xz
kernel /ZXDog64/live/vmlinuz1 from=/ZXDog64
initrd /ZXDog64/live/initrd1_jon06finit.xz

grub2 based :

menuentry 'ZXDog64 -lickmenu.cfg NO Changes.dat' {
search --set=root --file /ZXDog64/live/initrd1.xz
linux /ZXDog64/live/vmlinuz1 from=/ZXDog64
initrd /ZXDog64/live/initrd1_jon06finit.xz
}
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Legal Issues:
To be legal you must delete the file ZXDog64/live/zx0-spectrum10k-sgd_v003d . This is a file that contains the ZX 10k collection torrent. I will replace the 2.6 GB file when I manage to upload the newest versions.