[Coco] Speech / Sound Cartridge detection

[Barry Nelson]

> Henry Rietveld rietveldh at hotmail.com  <mailto:coco%40maltedmedia.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BCoco%5D%20Speech%20/%20Sound%20Cartridge%20detection&In-Reply-To=%3CDM5PR14MB1306249B320AACFD45274594B64D0%40DM5PR14MB1306.namprd14.prod.outlook.com%3E>
> Tue Jan 31 20:15:52 EST 2017
> 
> I currently writing a small program for the color computer that will optionally offer speech if you are using the radio shack speech/sound cartridge . Is there a PEEK that can be used to auto detect the cartridge  rather than asking the user if he has the cartridge inserted?
It appears that if you have a speech pak plugged in, if you POKE &HFF7E,0 then PEEK(&HFF7E) you get a 255. If you have a multi-pak, but no speech pak, you get 0, and if you have no multi-pak and no speech pak, you get 254. This was tested on my CoCo 3. I have not tested on my CoCo 1.
The user manual can be found here: http://tlindner.macmess.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/sscmanual.pdf <http://tlindner.macmess.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/sscmanual.pdf>
The service manual can be found here: http://tlindner.macmess.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/speechsoundcartridge.pdf <http://tlindner.macmess.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/speechsoundcartridge.pdf>