View source for GX4000 cartridge

[[Image:Burning Rubber - cara A.jpg|right|thumb|250px|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.

{|{{Prettytable|width: 700px; font-size: 2em;}}
|''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 [[RAM7 Cartridge Hacker|CPC Plus cartridges]].

== Pictures ==

<gallery caption="GX4000 cartridges">
Image:Inside GX4000 cart 1.jpg|Inside view of a CPC+ cartridge
Image:Inside GX4000 cart 2.jpg|Inside view of a CPC+ cartridge
</gallery>

==Links==

[http://www.vieuzordiland.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=34 Vieuxzordiland's page on the matter. In French]

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