Commodore CASSIOPEI, User Manual

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has a speaker, and when the Cassiopei is placed on the internal port cassette of a regular PET, then
when the speaker switch is in the upper position, sound of the CB2 audio signal will come out of
the Cassiopei's speaker. This unintentional functionality can be of benefit to those who don't have a
speaker on their PET but who do wish to experiment with simple sound on their PET.
Keep in mind that not all games will load from cassetteport #2, as some games are rather big and
require the use of a cassetteport buffer area in RAM that is also used by the Cassiopei's fastloader.
Now these games are rare, but keep it in mind your games doesn't run and then try to load it from
the other cassetteport.
Placing the Cassiopei on your internal cassetteport isn't very convinient, as it requires you to
constantly lift the top of your PET in order to press a button on the Cassiopei. Also the support feet
of the Cassiopei are not suited for placing the Cassiopei inside your PET. Also the wifi
functionality of the Cassiopei cannot be guaranteed to work properly, because the PET is
significantly obstructing the signal with is heavy metal case. Therefore to make a long story short,
enabling speaker functionality by placing the Cassiopei on the internal (#2) cassetteport is a nice
feature but it is not it's intended use and therefore is not recommended.
For all PET 2001 users that do have a build in datasette, the internal port is #1 and the external port
is #2. So for those users it may be an interesting thing to be aware of.
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