[Coco] Educate me about Y-Cables

[David Ladd]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A minimultipak would be nice :)
>

​Actually yes a modern MPI actually might be a good idea, but you may also
consider the cost of making something like that too. :D​

We do have the schematics to the MPI's.  Recreating it with current
programmable chips should be possible.  I saw on Youtube once someone who
built their own MPI.



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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:48 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Well most of the Y-Cable's I have seen have 3 slots.
> >
> > One of the things that limited the Y-Cable was buffering and power stress
> > on the CoCo3's power supply.
> >
> > So if if a board was made usefulness might be at least 3 slots and some
> > form of buffing to prevent damage to the coco and also a external power
> > supply input might help with coco power supply strain.
> >
> > That's my 2cents worth though :D
> >
> >
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> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> We should really make a small board for this purpose.
> >> What connections are necessary?  Just a straight through connection from
> >> the
> >> cartridge port to 2 connectors?
> >>
> >> - Ed
> >>
> >> > On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I've seen a number of references to people using Y-cables to
> facilitate
> >> the use of more than one program pak. Is there a vendor for these? If
> not,
> >> is there a description of how to make one?
> >> >
> >> > What kind of paks can someone use simultaneously with one of these? I
> >> was always under the impression that paks could only be operated one at
> a
> >> time (hence the selector switch on the MPI), however a Y-cable seems to
> >> imply this isn't always the case.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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