Posted By
Chicken
on 2010-09-14
01:15:35
 |  Re: SID-card scheme?
If I remember correctly, Solder's TED protection (to which SVS refered in the other thread) was for the plus/4 joystick ports because those can harm the TED. It was not an add on for the SID-Card but a different project.
The joyport on the SID-Card is different from the internal joyports and I think the risks of harming the TED do not exist.
A pass-through port would be nice but it's not likely to happen because there's (probably) no source for the connectors anymore. Solder faced the very same problem many years ago when building an extension port splitter.
Expansionport Splitter
Consequently, he changed to a new connector and built some adapters to allow "standard" cartridges to be inserted.
Cartridge Adapter
Furthermore, a SID-Card and an external RAM extension might not be the best idea. It will probably work but the external RAM extensions are considered to be out of specs by some ppl (has been discussed here some time ago) and with the SID-Card it might cause even more stress on hardware.
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