Advice on using multiple peripherals

[nicf82]

Hi


Just wondering if anyone has any advice on connecting both a DDI5 and one of these serial adapters to my CPC464?


I have seen that you can get expansion boards like this one which will work fine for the serial adapter but the DDI5 needs a male edge connector. I thought about using a combination of this connector with this adapter to connect it to the board - is there any reason this would not work?


If there is a better way please let me know!


Cheers
Nic

[nicf82]

In case anyone finds this useful, I found that there is a new expansion board in the works here https://github.com/revaldinho/cpc_ram_expansion/wiki/CPC-Expansion-Backplane, although it seems pretty new! I'm going to try to build a one of these boards as I think it should solve my problem being able to daisy chain.

[VintageAdvantage]

Surreal, INSANE PRICES for a piece of cable with a Centronics plug.

[VintageAdvantage]

You can buy it here, seems to be the same device

https://www.sellmyretro.com/offer/details/cpc-expansion-port-backplane-extender--_-lambdaboard-2-43119

[nicf82]

Yes, agree it is overpriced on eBay! Ive ordered 10 PCBs, and I'm going to try building some myself, just getting into electronics now I have some space to do it so i think it'll be a great project to begin with.

[TotO]

Sure. Always the same guy selling parts for at less 4 times the common price + really overpriced shipping fees ... And peoples buy ... That is the real problem.

[VintageAdvantage]

For folks that pay 30 GBP for a CPC Scart cable it might still be reasonably priced