Chameleon docking station

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Dockingstation V2
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Dockingstation V1
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The Chameleon Docking Station allows connecting up to four joysticks, a C64 keyboard, an Amiga 500 keyboard and of course the Chameleon itself. In addition to that, it can serve as a Docking Station for the famous Minimig board.

The black base board of the Docking station is made out of wood, and it comes with four rubber feet, so it doesn't slide off your table too easily, even with four joysticks connected. Although both keyboards can be connected at the same time, cabling might get a little congested, and it's probably not that practical either, so here's two example pictures of the Docking Station with keyboard connected:

Docking station v2 differences

The second version of the docking station is fully backwards compatible with the first one, new cores work with the old docking station and old cores work with the second version. However, there are two detail improvements:

  • With the second version also the 3rd and 4th joystick port support 3 buttons
  • The second version has an additional MIDI in- and out- port

connection to a Minimig board

A cable for connecting the Docking Station to a Minimig board is available separately. The package includes a black cable tie that perfectly fits the strain relief of the cable and the mounting hole of the Docking Station. This cable has an IDC-10 connector at one end, and a D-Sub9 connector for Minimig at the other end. Connect the IDC-10 connector like this:


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