[Coco] speech/orch pak

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	This would work except for the software slot change address conflict,
right? Probably should not plug rom carts into both MPIs.

					kevin
Stephen Blunt wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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