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282 lines
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emulator: ACE-DL
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type: standalone
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core_classification: community_fork
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source: "https://roudoudou.com/ACE-DL/"
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upstream: "http://ace.cpcscene.net"
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profiled_date: "2026-08-08"
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core_version: "2026-06-03"
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display_name: "Amstrad - CPC/Plus (ACE-DL)"
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cores:
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- ace-dl
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- acedl
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systems:
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- amstrad-cpc
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mode: standalone
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notes: |
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SDL port of ACE, the Amstrad CPC/Plus emulator written by Philippe Rimauro
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(OffseT) for MorphOS. ACE-DL is built by Edouard Bergé (Roudoudou) from the
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MorphOS sources and released for Windows, macOS, Linux and Raspberry Pi;
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a third port targets Haiku. All three are closed source, the original author
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keeps the sources private, so the entries below were established on the
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official 2026-06-03 Linux x86-64 build: path constants read from the binary,
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file opens traced with strace, and required/optional decided by removing each
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file and observing the result.
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Machines are CPC 464, 664 and 6128 plus the Plus range, which boots from a
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cartridge and covers the GX-4000. An operating system is one 32 KB file
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holding the 16 KB firmware ROM followed by the 16 KB BASIC ROM; the AMSDOS
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disc ROM is a separate 16 KB file mapped in slot 7. The upstream MorphOS
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release keeps the three ROMs apart under System/ and composes them at
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startup, ACE-DL ships them pre-joined under private/firmware/ with one file
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per machine and language. The pairs are exact:
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OS464_UK.rom Firmware v1 + BASIC 1.00
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OS464_FR.rom Firmware f1 + French BASIC 1.0 (md5 824f5213…)
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OS664_UK.rom Firmware v2 + BASIC 1.10
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OS6128_UK.rom Firmware v3 + BASIC 1.20
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OS6128_FR.rom Firmware f3 + BASIC 1.23
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OS6128_S.rom Firmware s3 + BASIC 1.21
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OS6128_DK.rom Firmware d3 + BASIC 1.20
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XMEM_FW_3_15_UK.rom XMEM 3.15 firmware + BASIC 1.20
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XMEM_FW_3_15_FR.rom XMEM 3.15 firmware + BASIC 1.23
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Firmware versions run 1 to 4 for the 464, 664, 6128 and Plus, and the letter
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is the country: v English, f French, s Spanish, d Danish. The BASIC revision
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attached to a version 3 firmware follows the country, 1.23 for France, 1.21
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for Spain, 1.20 elsewhere, which is what the pairs above show. The XMEM files
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replace the firmware half with the X-MEM expansion firmware and keep the
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stock BASIC.
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The nine operating systems are the entries of the Machine configuration
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selector. OS6128_UK.rom is the built-in default and is opened at every
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startup even when the config OS= key names another file. Command line -fuk,
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-ffr, -fsp and -fdk switch to the UK, French, Spanish and Danish 6128 files.
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A machine needs at least 32 KB in the file: truncated to 16384 bytes the
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emulator prints "Error initializing ROMs!" and dies, padded to 40000 bytes it
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boots, so the check is a lower bound rather than an exact length. The AMSDOS
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ROM is checked for presence only, an 8 KB stub boots.
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Plus machines boot from a cartridge and no cartridge filename is compiled
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into the binary, the three Amstrad_?4.cpr files are the system cartridges the
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author ships in the same directory, which is also the default browse root of
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the cartridge requester. The loader walks the RIFF chunk list and reports
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"Cartridge Load Error (Header)" on a bad header and "truncated file!" when a
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cb00..cb07 bank is short, each bank being 16 KB for 128 KB total.
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Plugins pull three more ROMs. Multiface II reads multiface2.rom, the Hacker
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plugin reads hackit400uk.rom in its UK flavour and hacker481fr.rom in its
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French one, and Play2CPC reads the YM2608 ADPCM rhythm ROM, warning with
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"ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin not found!" and running without it. The Windows package
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omits that ROM, the Linux and Raspberry Pi packages carry it.
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Expansion ROMs are user business: config keys ROM0 to ROM255 hold whatever
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the user picks through the requester rooted at media/rom/, and the release
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seeds that directory with third-party ROMs (ParaDOS, Protext, Maxam, Utopia,
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uniDOS, SymbOS, FutureOS, Orgams, Discology and others). Disc, tape,
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snapshot, Dandanator and X-MASS images are user content the same way, and the
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Nova plugin regenerates its 32 KB private/Nova/nova.nvram when the file is
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absent. Outside emulation the binary loads its own payload: seventeen QOI
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images, fatal with "Error loading QOI file please reinstall"; seventeen WAV
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drive and monitor samples, each merely reported as not found; and the
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private/messages catalog holding the French, English and Spanish
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translations. private/sounds/hitachi_long_seek.wav ships with every package
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but appears in no path constant and is never opened.
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files:
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# -- Operating systems, firmware ROM + BASIC ROM joined in one 32 KB file --
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- name: OS6128_UK.rom
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path: "private/firmware/OS6128_UK.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: true
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: b96280dc6c95a48857b4b8eb931533ae
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sha1: 5977adbad3f7c1e0e082cd02fe76a700d9860c30
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/firmware/OS6128_UK.rom, default machine, opened at every startup"
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note: >-
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CPC 6128 English. Firmware v3 followed by BASIC 1.20. Absence stops
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startup with "Error initializing ROMs!".
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- name: OS6128_FR.rom
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path: "private/firmware/OS6128_FR.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: 5ee871d5600eb9b5a22989c295f902a5
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sha1: 200d59076dfef36db061d6d7d21d80021cab1237
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: Machine configuration entry OS6128_FR.rom, command line -ffr"
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note: "CPC 6128 French. Firmware f3 followed by BASIC 1.23."
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- name: OS6128_S.rom
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path: "private/firmware/OS6128_S.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: 0246740371010333385665dfeb7cd0ec
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sha1: 1acd01c2c03424a78b32c9440f4d890fb1104815
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: Machine configuration entry OS6128_S.rom, command line -fsp"
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note: "CPC 6128 Spanish. Firmware s3 followed by BASIC 1.21."
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- name: OS6128_DK.rom
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path: "private/firmware/OS6128_DK.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: ca1635fd992e2aa7a776b30da13467e5
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sha1: a9e7ee6355730f319a37c95ca0a714212b88c3b1
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: Machine configuration entry OS6128_DK.rom, command line -fdk"
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note: "CPC 6128 Danish. Firmware d3 followed by BASIC 1.20."
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- name: OS464_UK.rom
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path: "private/firmware/OS464_UK.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: a993f85b88ac4350cf4d41554e87fe4f
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sha1: 56d39c463da60968d93e58b4ba0e675829412a20
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: Machine configuration entry OS464_UK.rom"
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note: "CPC 464 English. Firmware v1 followed by BASIC 1.00."
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- name: OS464_FR.rom
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path: "private/firmware/OS464_FR.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: a588b7c9e1c142b5d8ebec65ac7713d8
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sha1: c68d84f37ab9defbb19200598c24948c97c9a644
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: Machine configuration entry OS464_FR.rom"
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note: >-
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CPC 464 French. Firmware f1 followed by a French BASIC 1.0 that the
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upstream MorphOS release does not carry.
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- name: OS664_UK.rom
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path: "private/firmware/OS664_UK.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: 5a384a2310f472c7857888371c00ed66
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sha1: 073a7665527b5bd8a148747a3947dbd3328682c8
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: Machine configuration entry OS664_UK.rom"
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note: "CPC 664 English. Firmware v2 followed by BASIC 1.10."
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- name: XMEM_FW_3_15_UK.rom
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path: "private/firmware/XMEM_FW_3_15_UK.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: 85accc17e98c79dbbdde826cbfaf4692
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sha1: c7d7e5116665e4f21ae3b9bcdca2ce3685f00293
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: Machine configuration entry XMEM_FW_3_15_UK.rom"
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note: "X-MEM firmware 3.15 English, followed by BASIC 1.20."
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- name: XMEM_FW_3_15_FR.rom
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path: "private/firmware/XMEM_FW_3_15_FR.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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min_size: 32768
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validation: [size]
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md5: 046fa182f7574bde3ab97ee873f6e736
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sha1: faa49a3aeb1d7e972437f6b77515455d14e2d680
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: Machine configuration entry XMEM_FW_3_15_FR.rom"
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note: "X-MEM firmware 3.15 French, followed by BASIC 1.23."
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# -- Disc ROM, mapped in slot 7 --
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- name: Amsdos.rom
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path: "private/amsdos/Amsdos.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: true
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size: 16384
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md5: 25629dfe870d097469c217b95fdc1c95
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sha1: 39102c8e9cb55fcc0b9b62098780ed4a3cb6a4bb
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/amsdos/Amsdos.rom, opened at every startup"
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note: >-
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AMSDOS disc ROM. Absence prints "Error loading AMSDOS ROM" then
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"Error initializing ROMs!" and stops startup. Length is not checked.
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# -- Plus system cartridges, 8 banks of 16 KB in RIFF chunks --
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- name: Amstrad_v4.cpr
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path: "private/firmware/Amstrad_v4.cpr"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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size: 131156
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md5: 39b565e648172980aa552293e667070f
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sha1: 405e341437fab8db477606238af0c20eca2e39ee
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/firmware, cartridge requester root, CPR loader"
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note: "464plus/6128plus/GX-4000 system cartridge, English, firmware version 4."
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- name: Amstrad_f4.cpr
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path: "private/firmware/Amstrad_f4.cpr"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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size: 131156
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md5: e7159fd674022ba05f9b347ae3cdafc6
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sha1: e5aa80c501cfb435e2cba35ad92e427240394164
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/firmware, cartridge requester root, CPR loader"
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note: "464plus/6128plus/GX-4000 system cartridge, French, firmware version 4."
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- name: Amstrad_s4.cpr
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path: "private/firmware/Amstrad_s4.cpr"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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size: 131156
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md5: 6eeed3fdd4abc98a2a932da810410128
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sha1: 05fb14df24b2b504a3ae463a086f02f0adcc07b9
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/firmware, cartridge requester root, CPR loader"
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note: "464plus/6128plus/GX-4000 system cartridge, Spanish, firmware version 4."
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# -- Plugin ROMs --
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- name: multiface2.rom
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path: "private/multiface2/multiface2.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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size: 8192
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md5: 4c9f014e91d407cc6509fad0095ab909
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sha1: 1431ec628d38f000715545dd2186b684c5fe5a6f
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/multiface2/multiface2.rom, read when PLUGIN_MULTIFACE2=1"
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note: "Romantic Robot Multiface Two ROM. The plugin loads without it."
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- name: hackit400uk.rom
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path: "private/hacker/hackit400uk.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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size: 16384
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md5: 9a293eaaebca601f671070ad56cb81b6
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sha1: 56306e7234bcffd14b4f977d42d237c4ad9c12d5
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/hacker/hackit400uk.rom, read when PLUGIN_HACKER=1"
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note: >-
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HackIt 4.00 by Siren Software, English, UK flavour of the Hacker plugin.
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- name: hacker481fr.rom
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path: "private/hacker/hacker481fr.rom"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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size: 16384
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md5: dfdd9924295f491d54f30569874287f8
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sha1: 0c15d6753cf0ae2a1737b6e857e8e82ee135a697
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/hacker/hacker481fr.rom, read when PLUGIN_HACKER=1 and PLUGIN_HACKERFR=1"
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note: >-
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Le Hackeur 4.81, the French edition of the same Siren Software ROM,
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French flavour of the Hacker plugin.
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- name: ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin
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path: "private/sounds/ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin"
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system: amstrad-cpc
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required: false
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size: 8192
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md5: 8740932cda05e518a9955f1d08d6786f
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sha1: 50b6c3e288eaa12ad275d4f323267bb72b0445df
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source_ref: "AceDL 2026-06-03: private/sounds/ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin, read when PLUGIN_PLAY2CPC=1"
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note: >-
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YM2608 internal ADPCM rhythm ROM used by the Play2CPC cartridge sound.
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Missing file prints "Warning: ym2608_adpcm_rom.bin not found!" and the
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plugin keeps running. Shipped in the Linux and Raspberry Pi packages,
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absent from the Windows package.
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