[Coco] Educate me about Y-Cables

[Joe Grubbs]

Well cool... I'd want to use it for adapters/controllers specifically and not games, etc. I had envisioned using my CoCoSDC along with the RS232 pak or something (after removing the ROM from the RS232 pak of course). Was also thinking of doing surgery to my DCM pak--rip out the Modem part of it and install a serial to bluetooth or serial to WiFi board or something like that.

If someone came up with a board design, I'd be the first in line to buy one. :)


> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:48:06 -0600
> From: davidwladd at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Educate me about Y-Cables
> 
> 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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> |David Ladd|
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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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