@joelanman if you mean, like, non-cartridge peripherals that worked off the cartridge slot, I'm sure there are examples out there somewhere but I don't know specifics.
@joelanman All the mid-1980s Commodores used carts, from the VIC-20 up to the Plus/4 at least. And one alternative option for the slot was RAM expansion.
@adr In terms of what you said, a couple of interesting examples are the Game Genie, and the 32X. With a special mention to Micro Machines 2 on the Mega Drive which had 2 extra gamepad ports in it
@joelanman The Atari ST ROM port was being used to connect scanners, 3D shutter glasses or parallel ZIP Drives, add languages, operating systems or desktop accessories (QMI DeskCart!), add additional MIDI ports, etc.. The most current development connects a RasPi to the Atari ST through that ROM port: https://sidecart.xyz/
@joelanman The 1973 Buchela Music Easel has a cartridge expansion system for adding functionality, people have also created protoboards for designing your own modules: https://buchla.com/music-easel/
@joelanman well that's an article for ROM cartridges so I suppose it makes sense that nothing that also writes to a cartridge/card is ROM - and all sorts of things went in and out of PCMCIA slots
@joelanman I don't own it, but it seems the Famicom Disk System uses it to feed its data to the Famicom (NES) system. I believe there is also Famicom basic which never made it to the west and seemingly had a keyboard to boot.
@joelanman The Atari 400 and 800 home computers used cartridges for games (and maybe apps). But the really cool part was that the Atari 800 had a cartridge-based RAM expansion system!
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Yes, ish. The Sega 32X used the cartridge slot to upgrade the console.
Micro machines (I think) embedded extra game controller ports in its cart.
Gameboy had a camera which used the cartridge port (and a printer, I think).
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