[Coco] New MPI project for brazilian clones

[Michael Brant]

16 would be well just awesome, but even 8 would be quite nice.  I have a
lot of cartridges and love the idea of not having to swap them around all
the time.  With the 8 slots as option being that is larger than the
standard MPI would the secondary bank be limited to certain types of cards?
 and is the primary bank laid out to run like the original MPI (i.e. disk
controller in slot 4 etc.)

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Mathieu Chouinard <chouimat at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How about a 2 slot version?
> On Jan 21, 2016 2:32 PM, "RETRO Innovations" <go4retro at go4retro.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 1/21/2016 1:19 PM, Michael Brant wrote:
> >
> >> So Jim does this mean there with be an addon to take the slot number to
> 8?
> >>
> > At this point, I just wanted to make sure the firmware and the design
> > would support it.  I don't know if it makes sense to do so.
> > But, there are 2 IDE connectors on each cable.  And, there is a "bank
> > switch" on the board.  So, if I designed the firmware right, you could
> plug
> > two of the larger boards into the 2 IDE slots, set one to be bank 2, and
> > then have 8 slots.
> >
> > The pinout on the IDE cables will support a unit with up to 16 slots,
> > though I am not sure that is physically feasible.
> >
> > Jim
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