Amstrad Plus / Amstrad GX4000 flash cartridge (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2014/11/01/amstrad-plus-amstrad-gx4000-flash-cartridge/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=amstrad-plus-amstrad-gx4000-flash-cartridge)
1 November 2014, 1:00 amAfter years of inactivity I decided to release two old project, which I started to work on in 2010, publicly on my GitHub account (https://github.com/Octoate/CPCCartridge). I have not produced any prototypes yet, so they are currently more a draft. Both projects use a flash EPROM to store the data in the cartridge. The first one is a simple Amstrad Plus / Amstrad GX4000 cartridge, which can be equipped with an original ACID protection chip or with a Xilinx XC9536 CPLD for ACID emulation (you can read more about the emulation here (http://www.octoate.de/wp/articles/acid-verilog-code/)).
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The second project is the design of a flash cartridge, which can be programmed on a PC via USB and used in a Amstrad Plus / Amstrad GX4000. You can read more about the design in the README.md.
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Maybe someone with more time is interested to take over the projects, otherwise I will work on them every now and then…
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- Multi Cartridge for Amstrad Plus (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2010/12/11/multi-cartridge-for-amstrad-plus/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=multi-cartridge-for-amstrad-plus)
- ACID Verilog code release (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2011/04/15/acid-verilog-code-release/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=acid-verilog-code-release)
- MITM cartridge adapter (http://www.octoate.de/wp/2011/02/02/mitm-cartridge-adapter/?pk_campaign=feed&pk_kwd=mitm-cartridge-adapter)
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