[Coco] Using an MC-10 with Drivewire

Zippster zippster278 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 08:18:38 EST 2015


Thanks Darren,

What is the MCX-128?  I saw some info on it on the MC-10 Yahoo group I believe.
It’s a RAM/ROM expansion for the MC-10?

Did you design it?  I thought I saw your name in there somewhere.  :)

- Ed

> On Feb 8, 2015, at 11:58 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Edward Snider wrote:
> 
>> I saw an old post somewhere that seemed to indicate you could use
>> an MC-10 with Drivewire.  Does anyone know if this is so, and what I'd
>> need?
>> 
>> I just acquired a couple of MC-10's and would like to run some stuff on
>> them,
>> but have no cassette deck.
>> 
> 
> 
> There is a different system for the MC-10 called the Emcee client/server
> package.  It can be used to load and save files (.cas .c10 .wav) over the
> bit-banged serial port (same cable as DriveWire).
> 
> Unfortunately, to use it you need either a special MCX-128 expansion board
> with the client software in ROM or you must use the 16K RAM expansion and
> then load the client software from an audio source.
> 
> - Darren
> 
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