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A powerful shell for TR-DOS and esxDOS, with all the tools for four drives: copying, compressing a disk, renaming
files and disks, merging files. It works under esxDOS on a DivMMC with TRD images on an SD card and can take TR-DOS
Navigator's place as the default boot. It supports 48K to 1024K of memory of all standards, the Kempston mouse and the
CMOS clock; it shows pictures, fonts and texts (cp866 and UTF-8), plays PT2 and PT3 tunes and unpacks Hrust and ZX0
files by itself. Disk work runs at full speed: QC programs the WD1793 controller directly.
Quick Commander v3.22
Release date: 11.10.2026
Main changes: Quick Setup carries QC and offers what to do with it: start it, save it as boot.B on any disk, as a ROM
image, as TRDBOOT.BIN under esxDOS or in the Shadow RAM; Format, Check and Restore moved from the Care menu into Quick
Setup (Disk Doctor with a map of the tracks), and under esxDOS it mounts TRD images from the SD card in drives A-D; the
Care menu and autoKeep are gone from QC; the sprite viewer is back; the text viewer works on 48K too; esxDOS is told by
its TR-DOS emulation's answer; bugs fixed.
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Quick Setup 3.22: what to do with QC |
Disk Doctor in Quick Setup: a disk checked |
 Quick Commander v3.22 with Russian and English docs  Run in browser
Disk size 62 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.21
Release date: 08.10.2026
Main changes: QC works under esxDOS on a DivMMC with TRD images on the SD card, and can be its default boot in place of
TR-DOS Navigator (TRDBOOT.BIN); Quick Setup sets up not only QC on a disk but also the ROM image, the resident, the
Shadow RAM and TRDBOOT.BIN; the package is a TRD disk image instead of SCL; Save boot writes the boot in place of the
old one; on a disk with no BASIC files QC starts in the file menu; the change history in English too; the sprite viewer
is off for now; bugs fixed.
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Quick Setup 3.21: what to set up |
The modes' box: autoKeep and Full in words |
Quick Commander v3.21 with Russian and English docs Run in browser
Disk size 64 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.20
Release date: 05.10.2026
Main changes: the commander is packed with ZX0, and U and the viewer unpack ZX0 and Hrust files of up to 64 KB
straight into memory pages; the text viewer reads UTF-8; key hints for the current mode (? and H) and a bottom menu
in words; PTxPlay player (PT2 and PT3 modules); the mouse pointer is an arrow; the panel shows the machine and all of
its memory; Quick Setup 3.20 on the package disk; docs in Russian and English plus a separate text for developers;
TR-DOS 6.11E included; 25 bugs fixed.
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The help (H or ?): the mode's keys |
Quick Setup 3.20: QC's settings |
The viewer reads UTF-8 |
Quick Commander v3.20 with Russian and English docs Run in browser
Disk size 64 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.11
Release date: 28.04.2006
Main changes: sprite viewer, tab support and faster startup in the text viewer,
a different resident compatible with TR-DOS 6.05e-6.10e, bugs fixed.
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The sprite viewer (SS+V): a sprite from Clickmania! |
The viewer: tab stops |
Quick Commander v3.11 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 61 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.10 + v3.10r
Release date: 22.01.2005, updated: 03.11.2005
Main changes: a brand-new text viewer (rewritten from scratch) with support for colors
in the ACEdit standard! Added a version with a different resident, compatible with TR-DOS 6.05e-6.10e.
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The new viewer: ACEdit's colours |
Wrapping lines at word breaks (W) |
Quick Commander v3.10 + v3.10r with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 59 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.05
Release date: 03.01.2005
Main changes: a large number of additional settings, updated player, bugs fixed.
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Drive A's speed is slow: its icon is green |
S: the packing speed (faStpack); packing with Hrust |
Quick Commander v3.05 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 60 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.04
Release date: 22.11.2004
Main changes: new memory driver (now also supports ATM Turbo 2+, KAY 1024K, Pentagon 4M),
updated ProTracker 3.xx player, added support for SMUC-style CMOS clock, bugs fixed.
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The new memory driver: Pentagon 1024K |
Scorpion ZS 256: 256K of memory |
Quick Commander v3.04 with Russian docs Run in browser
Quick Commander v3.04 setup
Disk size 60 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.03
Release date: 15.10.2004
Main changes: a brand-new player for ProTracker 3.xx tunes, CMOS clock support.
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The new player: a Vortex Tracker II module |
The player's modes in words: Fast, no Loop |
Quick Commander v3.03 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 60 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.02
Release date: 13.09.2004
Main changes: the player uses the volume table matching the Pro Tracker version the tune was
written in, the viewer is fixed and faster, the track and sector for Keep can be set by
the user.
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Care, Show: the first page of the kept catalogue |
The player takes the volume table by the module's version |
Quick Commander v3.02 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 61 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.01
Release date: 19.05.2004
Main changes: instant exit from picture and text viewing,
renaming files by mask, when a file is run from the resident the current state is saved
and restored on return to QC, 3 bugs fixed.
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CS+R: renaming the marked files by a mask |
The viewer in the new design (QC 3.01's history) |
Quick Commander v3.01 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 61 sectors.
Quick Commander v3.00
Release date: 28.04.2004
Main changes: a completely new design built for 51 characters per line, full
support for three-character file extensions, more informative captions,
global code optimization, speed-up.
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The main menu in the new design: the scrollbar and the file's info |
The player: the modes in words (Fastplay) |
Quick Commander v3.00 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 60 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.82
Release date: 19.10.2003
Main changes: faster commander startup (thanks to a turbo loader and skipping the checksum
calculation), better compression ratio in the built-in packer, compacting of just part
of the disk, a "progress slider" while a tune is playing, playing a tune 3 times
faster, moving on to the next file when a tune ends, 8 new "colored extensions",
faster Move and Copy operations.
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Move of a part of the disk: the files after the first marked one |
New coloured types: .R .S .X .a .r .w .z |
Quick Commander v2.82 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 62 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.81
Release date: 12.08.2003
Main changes: improved built-in packer, more advanced handling of packed files,
new navigation keys, lots of bug fixes.
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.p_x files coloured by their original extension |
The viewer: SS+E (End), the end of the text |
Quick Commander v2.81 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 62 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.8
Release date: 03.07.2003
Main changes: built-in Hrust v2.1 packer and depacker; font viewer (768 and 2048 bytes);
automatic depacking of Hrust v2.1 packed files when viewing pictures, fonts and texts and
when playing music; a pile of bug fixes; aggressive optimization of many routines.
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The viewer unpacks Hrust itself (the QC28help manual) |
The player unpacks a Hrust-packed tune itself (.p) |
Quick Commander v2.8 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 62 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.71
Release date: 23.03.2003
In short: improvements, fixes, optimization, new features.
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Peak analyzers; Pentagon 1024K (Buff:3904) |
Marking by a mask (CS+L) |
Quick Commander v2.71 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 58 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.7
Release date: 25.05.2002
The long-awaited new version, which went through 7 beta versions and 5 almost-final releases before it came out.
The list of changes counts 26 items (!). No point writing a lot here - just download it ;) For now only the version
with Russian docs is available.
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The scrollbar and the Keep mode (K); Pentagon 512K |
Rename with a three-letter extension (top right) |
Quick Commander v2.7 with Russian docs Run in browser
Quick Commander v2.7pt2 (version with the PT 2.2 player)
Disk size 59 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.63
Release date: 12.02.2002
A new version with new features ;) This version implements most of the additions that users asked me for
in their letters. Only the version with Russian docs is available.
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F (Full): the entries past the catalogue's end are shown too |
16 groups of files in colours of their own |
Quick Commander v2.63 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 58 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.62
Release date: 12.12.2001
This version was not planned. It appeared only because the release of version 2.7 dragged on
far too long. So I decided it is better to release new versions more often, with fewer
additions/fixes each, than to spend half a year polishing one version with a pile of additions at once.
Now, thanks to the selfless work of Mac Buster, the Quick manual is also available in English.
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The viewer: a DOS Navigator style line with the encoding and the percentage |
The three-letter extension in the file's info |
Quick Commander v2.62 full Run in browser
Quick Commander v2.62 with English docs
Quick Commander v2.62 with Russian docs
Disk size 57 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.6fixed
Release date: 08.05.2000, fixed: 22.06.2001
A fixed version of the popular QC2.6, known for its innovative design :).
QC2.6 first showed up at Millennium1900. Since then it has enjoyed well-deserved fame and competes
on equal terms for the title of the perfect commander (see the article in Abzac #5). The help was translated
into English (!) on the www.zxspectrum.it site.
Three remixes are known so far: QC2.61
by Veka/CPU, "plain" QC2.6 by Klim, and the author's own QC2.6f. The author's remix QC2.6fix
fixes the ROM firmware files and also the exit to Quick, following the Real Commander standard.
Released ahead of the upcoming QC2.7. The latest version available at the moment.
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The new design: files coloured by type |
Enter in the player: the next tune plays |
Quick Commander v2.6 fixed Run in browser
Disk size 56 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.5
Release date: 18.04.2000
Many additions and fixes implemented and tried out in QC2.4 were brought to their
logical conclusion in this version. It turned out very well and can be recommended
as a replacement for all previous versions.
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The viewer reads KOI8-R (Conv) |
Wrap: long lines wrapped in the text viewer |
Quick Commander v2.5 Run in browser
Disk size 54 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.4
Release date: 21.03.2000
After a year and a half break, the popular version 2.3 was due for an update. The update
went well. But I consider this version an intermediate one on the way to QC2.5.
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The Pro Tracker 3.x player and the new analyzer |
Y: the author's copyright and e-mail |
Quick Commander v2.4 Run in browser
Disk size 52 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.3
Release date: 15.11.1998
This version was planned to be the last one. Its features were more than enough
for comfortable work. Who knew there is no limit to perfection...
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The text viewer: 64 characters a line |
The new Z-mus: a tune playing |
Quick Commander v2.3 Run in browser
Disk size 46 sectors.
Quick Commander v2.2
Beta, not released
Version 2.2 remained a beta: the next release after 2.1 was version 2.3.
Quick Commander v2.1
Release date: nn.nn.1998
Main changes: new graphic design suggested by Werewolves; full support for the alternative encoding, so Russian file and disk names can be used; support for 4 drives; installation into 32/16 KB shadow RAM by pressing "I" while loading; in Rename mode the left mouse button works as Enter and the right one as cancel; 3 bugs fixed, including one in the memory driver for non-megabyte Profi.
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Russian file names on drive C |
Rename in Russian letters (Edit: Russian/Latin) |
Quick Commander v2.1 Run in browser
Disk size 39 sectors.
Quick Commander v1.3
Release date: 08.04.1998
Main changes: new View item - viewing screen files and playing Pro Tracker tunes; normal (non-turbo) write mode can be switched on for drives that cannot cope with turbo writing; memory copying on Profi fixed. This version, together with its docs, was distributed with the Minsk electronic newspaper "ZX Element" #02 (06.06.1998).
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The normal (non-turbo) write mode: Slow save |
View: a Pro Tracker tune playing |
Quick Commander v1.3 with Russian docs Run in browser
Disk size 35 sectors.
Quick Commander v1.2
Release date: nn.nn.1998
Main changes: disk formatting (with Verify, faster than TR-DOS, in its own fast format compatible with RDS), progress display during Check and Restore disk, a completely rewritten memory driver for Profi 128-1024 KB (thanks to Spellbinder/Diensoft).
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Formatting the disk in drive B |
Checking the disk, with its progress shown |
Quick Commander v1.2 Run in browser
Disk size 25 sectors.
Quick Commander v1.1
Release date: nn.nn.1998
The first version of Quick Commander, built on the Max Petrov'96 boot: seven bugs of the original fixed (catalog reading on "slow" drives, starting from drive B:, border corruption when renaming, and others), the menu line reworked, support added for Profi 256-1024 KB memory and for 11-character disk names in the Conver standard.
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Name: renaming the disk |
Copying the marked files from A to B |
Quick Commander v1.1 Run in browser
Disk size 25 sectors.
Max Petrov'96 boot
Release date: nn.nn.1996
The original boot by Max Petrov, on which the first version of Quick Commander was based.
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Marking files: three marked |
The Care menu: the catalogue and the disk check |
Max Petrov'96 boot Run in browser
Disk size 25 sectors.
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