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Nice thingie. It's an ATmega88 btw.

*hust* http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,10495.0.html

Also ein Reinraum wird sicher nicht benötigt um die SIDs zu händeln. Ich hab noch keinen kaputt gekriegt, allerdings waren bei meinen schon auch kaputte (hauptsächlich Filter) dabei. Aber man muss es ja nicht drauf anlegen. Mit kaputten SID tut der C64 üblicherweise noch. Ohne sollte an sich auch gehen, muss aber nicht :D

Na klar:

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Where'd you get that display? It's looking nice ;-)

The case looks really nice and professional :D I love that you didn't just create a front panel and stuck it to some box =)

Ernsthaft mal - viele, viele Fragen von Dir, aber alle gut durchdacht und sinnvoll =) Daher auch die vielen, vielen (guten) Antworten :D

Conrad stocks flat tops as well.

Denk dran, dass nicht jeder SID in jeden C64 passt ;-)

Wenn man gründlich arbeitet und keine Test-schritte weglässt üblicherweise schon.

Die SIDs sind üblicherweise recht empfindlich. Es gibt auch viele bei denen einfach die Filter oder einige der Wellenformen nicht so richtig wollen. Testen? Nun, ein relativ schneller Weg wäre, die Chips (oder einen oder ein paar davon) per Post an jemanden in Deutschland zu schicken, der eine 8580 taugliche mbSID hat. Der könnte die dann Testen und zurückschicken. Porto ist ja bei einem Maxi-Brief mit 2,20€ durchaus noch machbar.

Man, is there anything that can't be patented? I'll patent using letters to write.

Agreed - I looked at it - seemed nice, but leads to more problems than "features" ;-) So did you, right? ;D

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It's kinda hard to tell from the image - is that a regular 8x8 dot-matrix-display like this? If so - they're kinda tiny :D EDIT - I just noticed that those are available in 6x6cm ;-) Might be interesting to look into, as it's the same size the matrix is atm. Thx sineSurfer.

The plexi rings will be CNC'd somewhere. We're still planning so I can't exactly tell you where and exactly how they'll be made.

mbSid:1, HyperSID: 0 ;D

But, since the front panel PCB will be stuffed with the SRs it would be fairly easy to create a desktop version using the same panel and panel PCB (+ possibly the mixer PCB).

Actually, I just scale the rendering to real-life size and push the virtual buttons on my screen - it's really nice to have two 21" screens sitting on your desk sometimes ;-)

The buttons are those. They'll have a plexi ring around them glued to the panel with 2 LEDs illuminating them.

Nope. This would be a pain since the panel isn't 19" compatible (it's 600x130mm)

Pretty impressive, but I still like the .sid files and my mbSID better =)

Wird beides recht warm. Ich hab in meinem SID einen 80mm Lüfter verbaut, der die Luft einfach unten aus dem Gehäuse (ein Koffer) rauspustet, nachgezogen wird die Luft durch die Löcher im Frontpanel. Ein paar Stückchen Sperrholz im Koffer selber sorgen für eine sinnvolle Durchströmung - keine Pobleme.

Well, even the first crappy layout had me drooling :D Thanks! Not really. And I doubt we will. That would mean a complete redesign of the panel and the panel PCB. All the "art" on the panel is more or less temporary - that goes for the logo as well. I actually just put that on there to fill a gap we had about 25 versions back. Feel free to draw something up - vector-based would be nice (svg if possible). :D EDIT: I just removed the illumination rings from two of the sections to see what it'll look like. I guess, it would be possible to place the LEDs we use to illuminate the plexi rings in a way that you could just leave one of them out and use the other one as a separate LED. I personally don't like it, but it could be done.