S1500 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Is this possible? Say you want to keep your 2600 expansion module plugged in, but want to play CV games, but are too lazy to pull it out. Can you disable 1 or 2 pins on the motherboard(or elsewhere) that would shut the expansion module off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tron Unit Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 So you want disable the expansion module but keep it plugged in? Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted February 17, 2015 Author Share Posted February 17, 2015 So you want disable the expansion module but keep it plugged in? Why? So if I'm in a mood for a CV game, I don't have to yank it out each time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tron Unit Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 By disabling it from the motherboard? Kind of self-defeats the purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playazclub Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I actually think it's a good question. It's been answered though in another thread although no one has tried it that I see. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/149407-colecovision-atari-module-switch/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Someone did this a couple of years ago...there's a thread somewhere...reported as working by hooking a switch to the appropriate pin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Someone did this a couple of years ago...there's a thread somewhere...reported as working by hooking a switch to the appropriate pin... Wasn't that for the pause function...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I actually think it's a good question. It's been answered though in another thread although no one has tried it that I see. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/149407-colecovision-atari-module-switch/ I only tried it out temporarily, using masking tape. For a permanent solution, with a big switch, you'd need to be somewhat concerned with wire length and signal integrity. You don't want a lot of noise on the signals that are going to the switch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiddlepaddle Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Wasn't that for the pause function...? Oh...maybe. Now I'm not sure; I THOUGHT it was to allow the expansion unit to stay attached. Pretty sure whatever I read about it was posted before the dedicated Colecovision forum was established, though. (I'll wrack my brain about it for hours, but I'm not going to go searching for it... sorry.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValkerieSilk Posted March 4, 2015 Share Posted March 4, 2015 I actually think it's a good question. It's been answered though in another thread although no one has tried it that I see. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/149407-colecovision-atari-module-switch/ Me too... I'd like to do the same thing... I hate pulling that damn thing out each time... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted March 4, 2015 Author Share Posted March 4, 2015 Hmm, wonder what the pinout for the module says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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