[Coco] speech/orch pak

[Stephen Blunt]

Ok, That all makes sense. So I wonder what the limit of concurrent devices
you could have attached via Y-cable (or something with a lot more
connections). Do you thing you could connect 2 multipaks at the same time to
allow 8 device to be simultaneously connected? Eg a FD-501, ssc, orch-90,
real time clock, superIDE and 3 rompaks.

SB

'I stepped in What??'

> 
> Hi,
> 
> 	I think the hardware in both these do their own address 
> decoding and do not rely on the cartridge I/O select signal.
> 
> 					kevin
> 
> Stephen Blunt wrote:
> > 
> > But if you plug it into the mpi, I thought it would only be active 
> > when the selector switch was selecting it (unless you put 
> it in slot 
> > 4? [which I imagine runs concurrently with the other 3 
> slots?]). That 
> > is why I could never quite figure out how it was used.
> > 
> > SB
> > 
> > 'I stepped in What??'
> > 
> > > > Ah, I think I understand. The Y-cable lets the speech pak
> > > and multipak
> > > > run concurrently.
> > > >
> > > ...and without using up an MPI slot. I could have just plugged it 
> > > into the MPI.
> > >
> > > Bob