Remember to add the Ampro documentation...

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