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Title: More than one expansion?
Post by: chinnyhill10 on 12:06, 08 September 18
Back in the day every expansion card I had for my CPC had a pass through so I could daisy chain them. However none of the modern cards available seem to come with this. So I can't have my M4 and Multiface clone plugged in at the same time.


Has someone overcome this? Say an expansion card that then you can plug in several cards to? Like a Rombox for cards?


Cheers.
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: Bryce on 12:09, 08 September 18
Have you been in a cave for the last few years? :D The MX4 is what you need.

Bryce.
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: chinnyhill10 on 13:46, 08 September 18
Quote from: Bryce on 12:09, 08 September 18
Have you been in a cave for the last few years? :D The MX4 is what you need.

Bryce.


Never heard of it. And I'm someone who keeps my ear fairly close to the ground with the CPC.
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: Bryce on 14:08, 08 September 18
Then get your head off the ground and search for MX4 in the forum :) Or just go here: http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/amstrad-cpc-hardware/mother-x4-board/


Bryce.
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: chinnyhill10 on 00:56, 12 September 18
Have ordered up a Lambda Board. Will let everyone know how I get on with it as word certainly isn't out that you can get such functionality. Spoken to a couple of users who are just unplugging devices every time they want to use something different. People simply don't seem to know and I certainly didn't!
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: ComSoft6128 on 06:54, 12 September 18
Agreed.
What is required is an area on the the board which gives a brief summary of all the peripherals still available for the CPC. This should include a description (including photos) of each product, links to the various threads, pricing and contact details. I will contact Gryzor and see if something can be worked out, I should have some free time over the next few weeks that I can use for this.

Cheers,

Peter
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: Gryzor on 15:10, 08 November 18
Did we discuss it after all? Apologies, I don't remember. But I'm fairly certain there are a couple of entry points over at that www.cpcwiki.eu site that'd be really suited to the task!
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: GUNHED on 21:10, 08 November 18
Quote from: chinnyhill10 on 12:06, 08 September 18
Back in the day every expansion card I had for my CPC had a pass through so I could daisy chain them. However none of the modern cards available seem to come with this. So I can't have my M4 and Multiface clone plugged in at the same time.

Has someone overcome this? Say an expansion card that then you can plug in several cards to? Like a Rombox for cards?


Well, I use two Mother X4 (8 cards) and after them the Dobbertin HD20 harddisc, finally terminated by the Vortex F1-D Floppy. Makes 10 and works.
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: LambdaMikel on 06:28, 09 November 18
With external / additional PSU fed into Mother X4?
I'd love to see a picture of that...
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: GUNHED on 15:53, 09 November 18
Yes, of course, it got a 5 V, 4 A PSU.  :)  Picture will follow some day, but at the moment I'm packing for the Retropulsiv 12 meeting tomorrow.  :) :) :)
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: GUNHED on 14:14, 11 November 18
Hi there. Here is my Rattenschwanz: Vortex F1-D, HD20, 7x cards on Mother X4 (PlayCity resides on Amsdap meanwhile with 4 MB RAM and M4 board).

Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: LambdaMikel on 18:53, 11 November 18
Quote from: GUNHED on 14:14, 11 November 18
Hi there. Here is my Rattenschwanz: Vortex F1-D, HD20, 7x cards on Mother X4 (PlayCity resides on Amsdap meanwhile with 4 MB RAM and M4 board).
Holy cow... amazing that that works!!!
They should have kept Chernobyl on the grid for you  :o
Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: More than one expansion?
Post by: GUNHED on 20:56, 11 November 18
Honestly.... the Vortex F1-D and the X-MEM don't cooperate that easy. Since the Vortex controller ROM gets decoded in real-time. It's not enough to put a Vortex ROM into the X-MEM. But I found a work around.
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