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Disk: Ampro Little Board
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The Ampro Little Board was a very simple and cheap Z80-based computer from
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1984, which ran CP/M. It was, in fact, a single PCB which you could mount
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on the bottom of a 5.25" drive.
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[All about the Ampro Little Board](http://oldcomputers.net/ampro-little-board.html)
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It stored either 400kB on a double-sided 40-track drive or 800kB on a
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double-sided 80 track drive. The disk format it used was a slightly quirky
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variation of the standard MFM IBM scheme --- sector numbering starts at 17
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rather than 1 (or Acorn's 0). FluxEngine supports this.
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Reading discs
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-------------
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Just do:
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```
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.obj/fe-readampro
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```
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You should end up with an `ampro.img` which is 409600 or 819200 bytes long.
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You can pass this straight into [cpmtools](http://www.moria.de/~michael/cpmtools/):
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```
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$ cpmls -f ampdsdd ampro.img
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0:
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-a60014.e
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amprodsk.com
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bitchk.doc
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bitchk.mac
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cpmmac.mac
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dir.com
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himem.doc
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himem.mac
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kaydiag.lbr
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kayinfo.lbr
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...etc...
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```
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Useful references
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-----------------
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- [The Ampro Little Board](http://oldcomputers.net/ampro-little-board.html)
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