Modulon MSX Slot Expander

My msx cost about 2500 guilders when I came out. Can't compare prices that way. For what you get if you need it the price is very good.

It looks like great value for little money. No cheap hardware in my house. need rock-solid stuff.

Cool item! But what about adding an additional flatcable like the Gouda and MK slotexpander?

a flat cable would be nice indeed, because there can be quite heavy and long cartridges (like Music Module), imagine those in a Modulon in a VG 8020 or other MSX with only top cartridge slots.

@Manuel: Sony 500,700,900 users are totally stuck without a flatcable...

@Lord_Zett
Let's make a deal !
You can sell me your older one so you can buy this one.
Could you be interested in?
If you want let me see what you get and tell me if it works with FM-PAC + MUSIC MODULE
My mail giuseve AT libero DOT it

Looks like a very nice product, however I agree with Manuel, that a version with flatcable would be needed with a lot of MSX machines. I prefer it as well for my Turbo R, just to have not so many weight on the cartridge connector on the back.

I asked wich side is the pin1, because if the pin1 is the side that don't has the switches, so any cartridge plugged will be facing over the cursor keys, atleast in my msx, and the secondary slot is not for a cartridge like connector, it is named BUS EXPANSION like a IDE connector but 50 pins.

The design has been made to fit the MT Telcom modem case. Now I read that most of the collected cases went broken and Supersoniqs found a solution in 3D printing. So, the PCB is already designed so there's no other way than using that design.
How nice it would have been if this was known before so they chose for the regular slot expander design.
I really do like the features of Modulon, but since it's all in one cartridge I have no use for it. I'd love to have those features in my Gouda 5.0 slotexpanders in stead...

Hear hear Grauw

Why not so sell it without the case? I will be cheaper and less problems making the case.

There is nothing wrong with the price at all... For its features it can be considered the cheapest... Supersonics always know how to cram the craziest of features intro a cartridges, features you'd never expect... And then all is assembled friggin' professionally... Imho they're in the top three of leading hardware designers AND producers... How often have we seen designs of great stuff that never got past a (half) finished prototype...
I like them, their ideas, their stuff and above all, their service and comunications...
And if a extension cable becomes available with two foolproof connectors on each side I am surely ordering one, eventhough I already have two of the slotexpanders I consider the second best after Modulon

lol
ppl making hardware without case: "PLEASE give me a case"
ppl making hardware with case "I don't need a case"

Like st1mpy said 100 euros is a good price a slotexpander especially considering the extra functionality.. I paid about 100-120 or so for a second hand gouda 5.0 which is the average price I have seen them go.

Great job, the case looks excellent.

If people don't like the case I'm sure they can just take the case off

Maybe when there's demand for 10,000 of them you can get them for under €20 a go, as it is making a physical thing in small quantities it's doing well if it's only €100.

I wonder how many of them you could daisy chain together, I want to see the super desk eating expanded many modulon MSX monster thing

if im getting on i need blue!!! darkstonne blue. damn.... f*ck the cable this is good hardware!!!

hail the SuperSoniqs Hardware Hero's!

Ok, send me a mail with some photos of your expander and make your request including an insured shipping to italy.

But you don't have to! Just make sure you're having fun doing it Thanks a lot for offering this great new hardware to the MSX community! Much appreciated.

Regarding the connector cable for use in MSXs with inconvenient slot position, this cable must be the simplest and the cheapest solution, and every MSX user should be able to make this cheaply.

I actually want to make one atleast because when I inserted philips music module in the sony hb-f700 it covers the slot next to it as well... this might be a common problem with many cartridges/machine combo.
I'll try to source the parts anyway.

Yeah, I arleady blew up a game and slot expander because I inserted it wrongly (it didn't have a case). I'm glad my GT survived it though.

Will there be modulons that can be bought at the fair or do you have to make a reservation or something?

@Randam: we will try to print some more, but since it takes about 17 hours to print one, and looking at the orders coming in it's best you order one, pay for it, so it can go into the order queue of the 3D printing factory. Pick up at Nijmegen is no problem. But visitors with paid reservations will be served first, naturally.

Yesterday I´ve received my “modulon” at home. I haven’t had too much time to test it but it looks reaaaally awesome. Congratulations to all “SuperSoniqs” people for its amazing job!!!

The on/off switch is great, used it to run SD Snatcher sound through my F1 Spirit SCC.

Does someone have the name of the socket? Just want to know what to search for. (regarding the socket on the adapter cable pictured above).

Hello who was looking for MT Telcom modem cases i got abouth 6 for sale incl modem

I saw a picture of a box full of pcbs on facebook, there is a new batch coming.

Not finished yet though. Probably best to wait for the official announcement. I am interested in one too.

Modulon will be available again when we got the enclosures ready. We have no estimate at the moment. If you want one, make an order and we put you on the reservelist. If you have ordered this item before (when it was out of stock), you are already on the reservelist. Don't wait to long: this batch is, when it's finished, for a big part already reserved.

It indeed is for audio. What kind of example do you wish to get?

Yes that is the use case here. In a MSX with 7MHz (which is an after market upgrade) the bus usually is also running at 7MHz. But audio chips use the bus frequency and expect it to run at 3.5MHz so the sound will be pitched to high. With your sound cartridges in the Modulon they will get the 3.5MHz they expect and music will be playing at the right pitch (unfortunately the internal PSG will still be affected)…

Like nails on a schoolboard.

I do wonder about the I/O in such case. Or are the 7MHz mods introducing waits on I/O access. Otherwise the MSX will put data on the bus too fast for the slower clocked carts to receive…