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Anyone ever have or make a CP/M Cartridge? If you haven't heard of this CP/M has the ability of loading a 32k RAM disk from cartridge to external RAM when you boot it. According to the meager docs I found http://adamarchive.org/archive/Adam/Tec ... 20Adam.pdf (Page 6) A CP/M cartridge is a directory and up to 30k of code and that the cartridge starts with a header of CA 53 (Normal ROMs with CV title are 55 AA, no title is AA 55). I created a simple cartridge image but unfortunately AdamEM will not load anything but standard cartridges (55AA or AA55). Here is the relevant text in the boot disassembly and I am attaching the sample ROM I made. I don't have a RAM expansion right now so I cant test this on real hardware.

It's not possible to load from cart straight into main memory without the need for expansion RAM?
That's what we do on the TI 99/4A...

Sure you can but the way CPM cartridges worked is that they are a simple 32k Copy of a RAM disk. You could have Microsoft Basic on the cartridge, boot cpm and then run MBASIC with M:mbasic at the A> prompt since it was copied to the ramdisk at boot up.