The X-Power professional plugs into the side expansion slot of the A500 and includes a pass through for attaching additional devices. The device allows you to pause the machine and use the built in utilities to perform the following:
- Full screen machine monitor and assembler
- Numerous DOS utils
- Backup, Filecopy using X-Copy
- Graphic display, scan, dump and save
- Sprite scan, display, edit and save
- Sound scan, play, save and display
- Slow down mode for cheating
- Game cheat for infinite lives
- Slide show maker for IFF graphics
- Variable autofire for joysticks
- Freeze memory to save and load
- Compacking feature
- Disk monitor
- Help screens