Commodore Remix

Analog-X64 wrote:

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I have a SID Midi Box project... well sort of.

I have everything but the actual components like the capacitors etc..

I have Display, Knobs, Panels, SID Chips.

Analog-X64 wrote:I have a SID Midi Box project... well sort of.

I have everything but the actual components like the capacitors etc..

I have Display, Knobs, Panels, SID Chips.

I've just realised I've not myself in to the same situation. I guess I miss read the ad... and I'll be getting a box of components, not an assembled box... The chances of it ever working are therefore extremely slim

madfiddler wrote:

Analog-X64 wrote:I have a SID Midi Box project... well sort of.

I have everything but the actual components like the capacitors etc..

I have Display, Knobs, Panels, SID Chips.

I've just realised I've not myself in to the same situation. I guess I miss read the ad... and I'll be getting a box of components, not an assembled box... The chances of it ever working are therefore extremely slim

It's not that hard to do, if you just have basic soldering skills to be honest... the two hardest parts are getting the cooling paste applied to the regulators, and aligning the LEDs I'd say.

I've made my own sammichSID, soldering everything myself and can do it for you, if you want to. You'd have to send the parts to me of course, and pay the freight youself.

What exactly did you buy? did you get the full set with both the casing and the components?

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madfiddler wrote: I've just realised I've not myself in to the same situation. I guess I miss read the ad... and I'll be getting a box of components, not an assembled box... The chances of it ever working are therefore extremely slim

Thats what I need the box of components.. where did you order them from?

That's the beauty of Ebay. Another try will probably land you the goods readymade.

Here is a few patches I did on the sammichSID. Only some reverbed delays added. Live tweaking, so expect lousy timing

http://razmo.ziphoid.com/sammichSID.mp3

madfiddler wrote: I've just realised I've not myself in to the same situation. I guess I miss read the ad... and I'll be getting a box of components, not an assembled box... The chances of it ever working are therefore extremely slim

If you decide you dont want the box of components, maybe I can buy them off of you.

You could cut your losses and buy one of these Game Boy Color MIDI interfaces I found:

Yeah yeah, nobody's listening because I'm rambling off on my own again. But I think it's worth looking at. I'll have one if I've enough moolah.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nintendo-Game ... 500wt_1076



Tasty.

Commie_User wrote:You could cut your losses and buy one of these Game Boy Color MIDI interfaces I found:
Yeah yeah, nobody's listening because I'm rambling off on my own again. But I think it's worth looking at. I'll have one if I've enough moolah.

How much are GameBoy Colors going for these days? and is there a versions of GameBoy color that works better than another version?

Click the blue link to see a cheap one. And as far as I know, all Gameboy Colors work exactly the same.

What's more, this Edirol USB interface looks a bloody good deal: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EDIROL-UA-25- ... 678wt_1462

Razmo wrote:

madfiddler wrote:

Analog-X64 wrote:I have a SID Midi Box project... well sort of.

I have everything but the actual components like the capacitors etc..

I have Display, Knobs, Panels, SID Chips.

I've just realised I've not myself in to the same situation. I guess I miss read the ad... and I'll be getting a box of components, not an assembled box... The chances of it ever working are therefore extremely slim

It's not that hard to do, if you just have basic soldering skills to be honest... the two hardest parts are getting the cooling paste applied to the regulators, and aligning the LEDs I'd say.

I've made my own sammichSID, soldering everything myself and can do it for you, if you want to. You'd have to send the parts to me of course, and pay the freight youself.

What exactly did you buy? did you get the full set with both the casing and the components?

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Sorry, kinda missing this - yep I got one of the final batches off the bloke in Australia. I think I will try it myself at some point. Just gotta find the time

It's also more fun to have a machine that you have done yourself

A tip; always solder the smallest components FIRST, and work upward so that the tallest components is soldered last... this is a lot easier... believe me.

good luck...

Do they sell the electronic parts as a kit anymore, I'm missing them.

heh, thanks... need to get an iron which hasn't got a 1cm head first

I think the last batch of parts has been sold now.Keep an eye on midibox though, you never know.