GX4000 cartridge

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A cartridge for the + series

A cartridge system was introduced with the launch of the CPC+ series. This enabled developers to distribute games via cartridges on the new Amstrad. The cartridges are protected with the ACID chip.

Technical specs.

There are different versions of the cartridges which contain EPROMs of different sizes. To indicate the EPROM size to the CPC+, different combinations of links have to be shorted.

EPROM type EPROM size Contacts
27C512 64kb LK3
27C1001 128kb LK1 + LK6
27C2001 256kb LK3 + LK6


RAM7, a French hardware developer, created a device to hack CPC Plus cartridges.

Pictures

Links

Vieuxzordiland's page on the matter. In French