Editing Creative Micro Designs

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{{Infobox company
| name=Creative Micro Designs, Inc.
| logo=Creative Micro Designs logo.svg
| type=Private
| industry=Computer
| founded={{start date and age|1985}}
| founder=Mark Fellows
| defunct={{end date and age|2009}}
| fate=Dissolution
| successor=Retro Innovations
}}
'''Creative Micro Designs, Inc.''' ('''CMD''') was founded in 1987 by Doug Cotton and Mark Fellows. It is a [[computer]] technology company which originally developed and sold products for the [[Commodore 64]] and [[Commodore 128|C128]] [[8-bit]] [[personal computer]]s. After 2001 it sold [[IBM PC compatible|PC]]s and related equipment.

==History==
CMD's first product, JiffyDOS, was developed from 1985 onwards by Mark Fellows. An updated [[disk operating system]], it maintained broad compatibility with [[Commodore International|Commodore]] floppy drives' [[Commodore DOS|DOS]] while offering much increased read-write access.

CMD stopped selling Commodore products in 2001. In July of that year, programmer Maurice Randal was sold an exclusive license to produce and sell the Commodore-related products. His company Click Here Software Co supplied the products until around 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.old-computers.com/museum/doc.asp?c=96&st=1 |title=Old Computers Museum |access-date=2013-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703141356/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/doc.asp?c=96&st=1 |archive-date=2016-07-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2010, Jim Brain acquired the license to supply JiffyDOS. Since January of that year, he has sold the product via his [[webshop]] Retro Innovations.

==Products==
[[File:CMD FD-4000 disk drive for Commodore.jpg|thumb|right|CMD FD-4000 disk drive]]
* [[SuperCPU]] - A [[65816]] CPU [[8-bit|8]]/[[16-bit]] upgrade for the [[Commodore 64|C64]] and [[Commodore 128|C128]] released on May 4, 1997, with version 2, the C128-compatible version, being launched in 1998.<ref>[http://members.optusnet.com.au/spacetaxi64/SPEED-UP-CARTS/SPEED-C64-CPU.htm C64 CPU Speed up Cartridges - The History]</ref>
* [[RAMLink]] - A 'fast' solid-state [[RAM disk|RAM-Disk]] that would plug into the cartridge port of the [[Commodore 64|C64]] or [[Commodore 128|C128]] which added between 1 [[megabyte|MB]] and 16 MB. The C64 version typically required a 'timer jump clip'. The RAMPort allowed it to work with the Commodore 17xx RAM Expansion Units
* [[CMD FD series|FD series]] - The FD2000 used 'High Density' Disks of up to 1.6 MB of storage, with the FD4000 using 'Enhanced Density' Disks of up to 3.2 MB of storage
* HD series - [[SCSI]] Hard drives of between 20 MB and 4.4 [[gigabyte|GB]] using CMD's native [[disk partitioning|partitioning]] system of 16 MB per partition
* JiffyDOS - Adds [[DOS Wedge]] commands for easier functionality via [[BASIC]] [[command prompt]]
* SwiftLink/Turbo232 - Adds dial-up [[modem]]s to your Commodore 64 or 128 of up to 38.4&nbsp;[[kilobit|kbit]]/s (SwiftLink) or 56.6&nbsp;kbit/s (Turbo232)
* 1750 XL - a Commodore 17xx [[Commodore REU|REU]] clone in two flavours adding either 512 KB or 2 MB
* SuperRAMCard - Works in conjunction with the SuperCPU to add between 1 MB and 16 MB of directly accessible memory using the 65816 processor
* SmartTRACK/SmartMOUSE - An 'intelligent' [[Commodore 1351]] 3-buttoned mouse or [[trackball]] which had 2K of RAM and a battery-backed [[Year 2000 problem|Y2K]] compliant [[real time clock]] which was [[GEOS (8-bit operating system)|GEOS]]-compatible

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.cmdweb.de/ The unofficial CMD—Creative Micro Designs homepage]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100623085219/http://www.jbrain.net/categories/Commodore/Firmware/JiffyDOS JiffyDOS at Brain Innovations] — ''officially licensed JiffyDOS products''.
* http://www.go4retro.com/products/jiffydos/ - An updated side where you can buy your legal version of JiffyDOS

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