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850 bytes added, 12:43, 14 April 2015
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Page 0 is OS.
Page 1 is BASIC.
Page 2 contains part of the disk image data.
Page 3 contains AMSDOS.
Page 4 onwards -15 contains disk image data.
The OS, BASIC and AMSDOS are based on CPC6128 ROMs and have all been patched.
Note that expansion ROMs that have been installed (e.g. replacement AMSDOS such as Parados) on the Plus will override the AMSDOS in the cartridge made by No$cart. So ensure you remove all expansion ROMs before running the cart on the Plus.
 
The tool supports single sided DATA format discs only. The data stored in the cartridge is uncompressed and is a dump of each sector's data ordered by sector ID (&c1 then &c2 then &c3 etc).
 
Page 2 is the first 32 sectors from the disc which holds the directory and first part of the data.
Page 4-15 contains all the remaining data from the disc.
 
A single side of a standard DATA format disc is 178K which uses 12 cartridge pages (the last page is not fully used and is padded with FF bytes by No$cart). Therefore No$cart uses a 256KB cartridge to store an entire disk.
 
The maximum size of uncompressed data that could be stored is 475136 bytes. Two sides of a DATA format disc would be 356K (40 tracks and 2 sides).
It would not be possible to store a double sided 80 track disc.
 
Discs of other disc formats would need different patched AMSDOS to handle them.
 
 
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