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I usually just use a pair of needle-nose pliers with good results.

There's really cool nice burners with ZIF sockets on eBay. Usually going for less than you could build one yourself ;)

As I said changing from 2x20 to 2x40 is a matter of seconds. Just send me a PM with your eMail address and I'll fire it your way. Adding the funny little boot message is a bit more complex as it actually involves programming ;-) Try to not limit your creativity by some needless fear of editing some tables or constants. It's really much simpler than it may seem to you right now. Replacing "some_variable_name 12" with "some_variable_name 15" doesn't involve any voodoo. Once you have the working core and SID modules and *before* you work on the CS, just play around with the settings a bit. You can't break anything - the worst that can happen would be that you'd have to re-download the original source code ;-) Optimize your SID as much as you want - when you think you're done, post your ideas here and have some people with a bit of SID experience look at them. If there's anything that's really hard to do, you can always leave it out. Quintessence: Don't be scared of changing some settings in the source. It's a piece of cake. About gratitude (and I think I speak for everyone here): Get that thing to work, have a great time with your dad, show some pictures when you are done - that's all the gratitude we need.

Only if it involves downloading scripts from my site and manually entering the drive name ;-)

Just follow this step-by-step tutorial and it all should work as supposed to http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/windows_toolchain_quickstart?s=toolchain

You do now that you *really* shouldn't say something like that out loud ;D

$250 with no panels and no mechanical parts, eh? Seems like a bargain! ;D

funny, but fake. In addition to the mentioned missing frames, you can clearly see a car passing by the window @0:42. This car has an UPS logo on the site, which means that the video was not shot in Uganda, also the direction of the sun is wrong, clearly indicating that this video was shot on Mars, which means that it's not 8O assembling the board cause none of the pcb vendors ship to Mars. Hehe, way cool bugfight.

They are showing for me - how else could I have commented on them?

mmm pcb-stacks.

Ms. Sophie is a character in Lauri Wylie's "Dinner For One" from the 1920s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner_for_One. If you haven't seen it watch it right now - there's an awesome version with Freddie Frinton from '63:

Combined shipping seems to be a rather good idea to me. Shipping within Germany ~1.50€. All you germans - what do you think?

Changing from 2x20 -> 2x40 <= 30 seconds. If that's the only change you want/need I'm pretty sure there'll be tons of helpful people here who'd even do it for you, if you asked them nicely. Yes, that was an offer. As I mentioned before - the 2x40 will work right away, even if you don't change the source, so you can test all you want and troubleshoot and use and do whatever with the box. And then one magical day you change those 6 lines in the setup_*.asm and you have 10 menu items. Now, how cool is that. Basically my point is: Not wanting to change the software / being scared of asm / not having the toolchain installed is absolutely not a reason to not go with 2x40.

Congrats, that thing looks sturdy ;D I'm not sure I wanna see a gut-shot though ;)

46. 4 to go. How are the options for joined shipping to remote locations like, say, Germany?

Well, I was referring to this part: Required steps for a proper ID initialization: o ensure that the MIOS bootloader has already been programmed into the PIC. You should see an upload request after power-on (see also: http://www.ucapps.de/howto_debug_midi.html) o upload the most recent MIOS version like described under: http://www.ucapps.de/mios_bootstrap.html [/code] DenDer, again good spot on the obsolete page: "Same procedure as last year, Ms. Sophie" ;)

So that's how that happens. Well that's that little mistery solved.

[me=nILS Podewski]sobs[/me] Don't get a 2x20... Why do people limit themselves to 2x20s for no apparent reason, if they can go get 2x40s which simply show more information ???

Oh, you were? Shit, I was just typing a 28 page PM to you about how bad ripping software is, mmmkay.

That's why I haven't posted the link here, so I could "manually" tell everyone again, to be careful ;)

Soooo, how about you stfu then? ;) Depends on the kind of problem you have. No. I don't even think that everybody would want to. Same for any other OS. But, *most* of the drivers are there. After all, the "base" distro is ubuntu and not some backyard school-nerd project. Yes. Then don't. Period. Noone said it was going to be easy. They're boned. Just like people that can't compile kicad on MacOS or get the toolchain installed on Windows, or ... are boned right now. ...and we don't have these yet? Don't you think you're worrying a bit too much for now? Well, um. Yeah. I'm pretty sure it would be possible to set up a new board on this forum. I don't see that as a big issue though. It's not like we want to force people to use Linux. We merely want to offer an alternative, which so far seems to work really nicely. The script basically creates a persistent live stick. That means it copies the entire CD on one partition of the stick, leaving the whole Live CD funtionality intact. And it sets the system up to use the second partition as the persistent one meaning it stores all you additional applications and data there. So you get the best of both worlds. A stick that can run in live mode on any computer and a working persistent "installation" at the same time. Which is basically what the script does. Meaning: You didn't install either ;-) @lylehaze: Don't bother doing that manually, the script does exactly that (and a bit more). The laptop you tried doesn't happen to be a HP one, now does it? edit: By the way, the script is just a temporary solution to allow linux-noobies to fiddle around with the basic setup without having to worry about typing in weird commands. So, any problems with that script are really temporary.

It's more like the other way round. 2x20 is indeed the default, BUT there is really no point in using a smaller display when you can afford the bigger one and have the space on the panel. Besides a 2x40 will work correctly with the default setup (except for half the screen being blank of course).

Yes, the software does start w/o the SID module connected. So *if* the sid application was installed on top of MIOS it should display so at startup. Are you _sure_ that: - you are using the correct PIC (18F4685) - the latest version of MIOS is correctly installed - the core modifications for the CAN bus are correct - the latest version of the SID software is correctly installed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning#Symptoms_and_effects

Thanks for waiting so patiently for so long, xarolium! This is probably something that can be taken care off more easily with a PM to ultra ;-)