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Sweet! Very nice :D That'll be a nice addition to the sidLive ;D Keep up the great work, seppo!

I don't really see why you're building a v1 ;-) Other than that it looks pretty much like TKs layout, which is a good thing :D

Do it. Go to any english-speaking country. For some reason 85% of all employers tend to think that "Auslandserfahrung" is more valuable than anything else at the moment. Stupid fucks. Um, this is a joke really. GO TO UNIVERSITY if you can! I just put that in there to show how college/studying/classes keep me from doing what I really want to do ;-)

That's only half the truth - you can get "drafted", but NOT to the army - they can only have you cook or work in a hospital, but never actually go into combat or use weapons :-) Now, how did we get here again? :D

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Well, I was talking about the difference between refusing "military service" which you legally can't and refusing "to bear arms" which you legally can ;-) There's multiple ways to cheat your way out of service of course, but some of them are/were rather risky.

They have just done that in Germany, BUT... They're realizing it's coming at a price and are discussing ways to allow exceptions for smaller pubs and so on.

Yes there is (although they're kinda getting rid of it atm). You have to go to the military after school or the age of 18 (with some exceptions like having kids, a company or the likes of course). You can't refuse military service, but you can refuse to bear arms. This used to mean writing a pretty long and detailed letter about how you cannot do so because of religion, the way you were brought up etc. Some years ago they would then bring you to court where'd you'd have to argue your case (nowadays they just accept the letter unless it's obviously copied from the net). If your refusal is accepted you have to do "civil service" - working in a hospital, youth hostel, senior residence - that type of stuff (you get to choose what you wanna do though - that's how I ended up in a youth hostel in a nice skiing region in the Alps ;-)). This also means you can never ever join the army or be drafted in any way. If your refusal gets rejected you either do your service or don't show up and most likely end up in jail.

I agree with seppo - no idea what it's supposed to sound like but the second one sounds a wee bit more aggressive over here.

Schön, dass jetzt alles läuft! Viel Spass mit Deiner v2!

I have, and I must say - it's pretty neat, BUT... the demo version doesn't allow you to save your settings (so everytime you open a track you have to do all the settings over again...). I'm really happy with the (free) Quantum 64. Not an accurate emulation but really nice.

<---- "University? nILS is telling truth." ;D I just noticed that - sweet!

Heehee, Youth hostel worker in Germany = guy who just got out of high school and refused military service. What do you expect? ;-) How do I know? I did that as well ;-)

Looking really good - I actually missed the post before stryd bumped it ;-) Sidenote: 8 posts to finished box :D

You scare me.

g: Our glasses are bigger - so it's filled up to the mark AND you get the "oversized" head as a bonus ;D

Man, that looks like the packages we used to get from our relatives in evil capitalistic West-Germany back in the 80s :D

Schick, schick :D Und schnell! Gratulation und jetzt - viel Spass mit Deiner mbSID :D

Is it just me or is the rendered version the only one you get to see? Kinda like with the hardSID4U. I wanna see real pictures...

Well for me personally it seems that all the keys I don't hit with my index finger have less velocity ;-)

Well. Um.. First of all, which PCB are you talking about? SID or CORE? Referring to the label - which board are you using? Mike's or Smash's? Anyways - J1 goes directly into a rectifier, which means you can feed it AC or DC in any polarity as described here http://ucapps.de/mbhp_core.html

Whee! I'm being remixed ;-) Nice!

Yes, just make sure you get the polarity right ;-)

Yeah, I personally doubt that it's possible. Actually, I have no doubt that it's impossible.

The 14V aren't suggested because of the rectifier. The regulator on the SID board takes the 14V and regulates it to 12/9 (7812/7809) depending on the SID you are using. For a 7809 (-> 9V for 6582 and 8580) supplying them with 12V will be fine.