There is a button combination that you can use i I recall right, while powering the unit on, that will reinitialize the whole memory area which is the problem. The preset memory tends to scramble from time to time, especially on power on... must be some power spike or something that causes this.Analog-X64 wrote:I paid a lot of money for mine many years ago. I used it for about 2 hours and the ROM on it got scrambled. I sent it back for repairs and got it back, turned it back on to see that it works and stored it away.Razmo wrote:The SID Station often crashed for me as well when I had one right after they came out... it's a hardware bug inherent in all SID Stations..
I dont want to sell it, because of how much money I sunk into it. and I dont want to use it, since I'm afraid its going to break again.
It's a shame though, that you just have it stored up ANX64... at least it contains one of the best 6581 SIDs inside, namely the 6581R4AR, that should be the best sounding ones made of the first model. If you ever get to making a single SID MIDI Box or something, you could rip that chip and use it with it...
I myself have only managed to salvage ONE R4AR from a dead C64 in all of those I've salvaged from... they are not that common anymore. Believe Electron bought a large last-batch of these when they made the SID Station back then... I recall that when stock was nearly exhausted (the machines) they started to put other revisions in them.
I recall the price... they were WAY overpriced back then... I bought mine right after they was released and regretted it ever since to be honest.
Only nice thing about it is, that it's controlled by an actual MC68000 CPU... the good old AMIGA CPU (a square surfacemounted version though)... would have been fun to program it.
