[Coco] Multipak redesign/replacement (was: Educate me about Y-Cables)

[Nick Marentes]

On 21/02/2015 4:49 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote:
> Kip Yoon and I have just exchanged emails about making a replacement 
> for the MPI. He's already got a preliminary design doing. I see the 
> mechanical and packing aspects of a new MPI more of an issue than the 
> electrical/electronics. Perhaps it's time to get some serious 
> discussion going about that. What do you guys think? Tony 

I think most guys on this list will want something that will allow them 
to pack as much hardware gadgetry as possible to their CoCo.

I'm a bit more conservative. I'd like to see a more elegant solution. I 
really can't see the practical sense in trying to make everything work 
if I have no real need to use it.

I have an SDC card and Drivewire connected to my PC and and between 
these, I have no need for a mechanical floppy drive using old unreliable 
magnetic media and a hard drive.

For me a sound card is about the only thing I would want to attach 
although a multi-pak interface seems like overkill to run the S/SC 
cartridge for the few games that even use it.

Nick