ACID chip inside

[MacDeath]

Salut à tous....

Well, there are some discussion on many Forums about the ACID chip.

As you know, this is the chip no Amstrad Plus work whithout...
and the most unknown too.

Spanish Amstraders are actually trying to analyse it properly.

French are talking about it, mostly trying to decipher the spanish talks....as we speack spanish like British Cows too.

It would be great to assemble all the stuff from all over the CPC world community, links, etc...on the matter.



Also, It seems there's an Urban Legend about a company with 500 ACID chips to sell.


link to said list :
http://www.n-tronics.com/english/stock/available_stock.php

I sent a mail to them to get more information (price, is it really ACID chip...)

Is it true ? or a CPC mythos ? (seems to be true, lol...merci Fano.)


As you also know, GX/Plus cartridges can be quite expensive on internet !
A  "professionnal" MultiEEprom cartridge production would be great.

But we must check all those information first.


Wiki Links :

http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/CPC_GX4000-Multi_EPROM_Cartridge
http://cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Amstrad_Cartridge_Identification_Device

Other links :

Spanish :
http://amstradcpc.mforos.com/305097/7723493-que-hace-exactamente-el-chip-acid-de-los-cartuchos/

French :
http://www.vieuzordiland.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=34
http://www.vieuzordiland.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=34

http://cpcrulez.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3904
(our pathetic try to understand spanish, lol)



Please, if you have linkto discusssion on the ACID, tell what langage it is too.
I will edit this first post to add them all.then let's Babelfish do the job.

Also, this thread is open to discussion on the ACID interaction with ASIC.


As some crackers say : no protection hasn't been cracked yet...

Well, the ACID is no soft protection (but hardware one...) yet it is still uncracked !

[fano]

Also, It seems there's an Urban Legend about a company with 500 ACID chips to sell.

Is it true ? or a CPC mythos ?

As i replied @cpcrulez , there is a site that pretends to own 500 ACID in stock :http://www.n-tronics.com/english/stock/available_stock.php (stock list 4)
No clues about pricing, i remember TFM/FS posted something about this, maybe he contacted them.

[Gryzor]

Did the company actually write back anyway? That'd be a great boon...

[fano]

If someone if interested , there is the reply when i asked for minimal order :

Code: [Select]

Thank you.

Please order what you need.

We would be grateful for an early reply.

Kind regards

[Gryzor]

Um.... ok, so do we order?

[fano]

waiting to success in prototyping a 512K cartrige 

[MacDeath]

And if so, a 512Ko Multi E(E)PROM serie would be so fine...

[khisanth]

This kind of project would be great to use Google Wave. Big collaboration, sharing documents, video, audio, emails, chat etc

[MacDeath]

Too bad those spanish amstradist don't come here so often an don't allways speack english well (like french cows ?)...

Please spanish friends...
Share a bit more !

[arnoldemu]

Too bad those spanish amstradist don't come here so often an don't allways speack english well (like french cows ?)...

Please spanish friends...
Share a bit more !

I am talking with Steve at this time.
Don't forget that both of us are busy.

[fano]

I am talking with Steve at this time.
Don't forget that both of us are busy.

Take your time , we are waiting since 20 years so we'll wait a bit more

[pepax]

waiting to success in prototyping a 512K cartrige 

How about buying just a few and testing them in an original cartridge?

[fano]

I am waiting to own an EPROM burner to make tests.
Just a bit of code that testes all ROM pages to see how act LKs.

Problem is postage fee are high so this a is a bit expensive to purchave a little quantity :s

[Gryzor]

How much is it? Maybe we could chip in...

[fano]

That would be interesting, they send them via UPS and as i saw , the minimal cost is around 100Euros.