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Thanks, I bought it. I hope the display istself works too. :-/

Well that's enlightening. I couldn't find anything about these displays so that changes quite a bit. They guy selling them had no info on the actual backlight wiring. I found some info on this forum but no one mentioned EL backlights, the internet totally failed me. I found one site with a schematic for but they never actually explained what the supply was (though it looked way different than -2 volts mind you).

I did this with my setup and it works great. I think you just have to give the 7805 an about face to make it work. I think I have a smaller package lm317 though (not that it would be any harder)

I recently bought a replacement LCD for my MIDIBOX SID. It's off of ebay and it's an electroluminescent backlighted display. I got a maxim icl7660 and wired it up as per the schematic, but I have no idea how to integrate it into the core module using the existing pot /transistor. Also I'm not even getting any non-lit characters for the display. Do I need any special wiring elsewhere or something? It's apparently hitachi compatible. Item i bought: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160249490629&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebay.ca%3A80%2Fsearch%2Fsearch.dll%3Ffrom%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm37%26satitle%3D160249490629%26category0%3D%26fvi%3D1 icl7660: http://datasheets.maxim-ic.com/en/ds/ICL7660-MAX1044.pdf

Okay this is extra crappy. I plugged in mandolane and I don't even get the shareware nag screen when I start up. This makes no sense as it's there in /Library/Java/Extensions. I even tried to put it in ~/Library/Java/Extensions with no success. I have no idea what's going on.

Okay, Well since I was never able to program eeproms I can't really try them out :-\ I guess I'll have to try plumstone perhaps, but I don't know why mmj wouldn't work on a clean install of 10.5 when it was working on my old dirty installation of it. Also as a note: the developer of MMJ is also using 10.5 MBP so he has no clue why it wouldn't work either. I just hope I can get my budget SID going soon. I'm already sad since my new LCD is half the size of the smashed one, so my case is going to suck. Thanks Thorsten,

Yes this is how I have been verifying it's connected while still not seeing the ports in different programs Version: 0.01 Bus Power (mA): 500 Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec Manufacturer: Thorsten Klose Product ID: 0x8ef1 Vendor ID: 0xac89 So this means it's what version? I know that it was programmed about a year ago, I'm pretty sure there's been no release since.

No one have any suggestions? I've tried again by disconnecting everything and connecting it to USB. It's showing up as connected to USB (still) but (still) does not show the available ports. I should hope it doesn't have anything to do with the Core/USB interconnection because it has been removed. It appears as if it's something else

I recall you recommending this previously when I did my FM, but I did do that for this project and it just did not work AT ALL and gave me all sorts of problems. I eventually just started using the octo-coupler bypass again and it at least worked. But as I said, it's actually showing up as connected, it's just the actual ports of the MBHP USB that are accessible for some reason, I don't even have my MBSID turned on at that moment. This should not matter as I should see the 2 in and 2 out ports of the MBHP USB with or without something connected to the ports. (yes, I even removed the interconnection to the core to test)

I have two MBUSB modules. One is built into my MBFM and the other is built into my WIP MBSID. Both have been tested as working and I have used the MBFM one several times, in fact I even used the SID one to do some preliminary MIOS/SID software loading. That being said I just got a new MacBook with 10.5.3 (thanks to Apple's excellent hardware replacement under warranty) and both my USBs are no longer working! Both modules show up in the "System Profiler" and the "Audio Midi Setup" panel. Their ports however do not come up at all within Sysex Librarian or MIOS Studio (I'm using MMJ). I have tested my UNO and it comes up fine with no apparent issues. Does anyone have any suggestions or similar problems?

In regards to the parallel port: I'm pretty sure all the parallel port to USB adapters are specifically meant for printers and their drivers only map it as a printer port and pretty much never as a general LPT.

Well, I should hopefully now have to recompile my ASM after this time, but if I suddenly realize I didn't do it right with the wrong configs I will probably give it a whirl using linux then ;-) Now if I could only get java/midi working again...

Oh, crap. Sorry, I mistake these things with linux sometimes. Y'know I only compile in windows because I recalled it was rather simple that way, I think I might have been better off figuring this out in linux anyhow.

Well not remove it, just seperate the path making and the actual "make" command. Set the path (you'll only have to do this once): blah blah Now type make while you're in the directory: cd:/blah make

Well maybe if you just separate it like "install this... set these path variables... okay, everything is setup, now just go to any directory and say "make" and it will. Also I assume you could even make a script that just goes "cd to directory this bat is placed in. Run make". The more forks you make the harder to understand, (as in, what do you mean I "can" save the path setting permanently?).

Okay, This is good. Thanks very much, I should have realized that that part was one time!

Yes, Your chip revision takes 12v. jsynthlib should have a virtual control surface for the SID. http://www.ucapps.de/jsynthlib.html Not sure about the cutoff. The caps aren't polar. The 7805 should be fine, it get's hotter if you're using a large current or are going down from a higher voltage because it "eats" the extra volts. So if it's 12v to 5v it's a 7v difference, as opposed to 9v which is 4v. Also make sure you are running a "linear" power supply and not a "switching" type.

The last line, which might be put in the source directory and will run the long line before "make" and "make". Anyhow it doesn't matter.

Looks like it actually worked! Takes a while to set all of it up, especially because I'm on virtual PC and for some reason can't past into the windows terminal (which sucks). You should make a bat Thanks!

If they were organized, in one sensical place with brief descriptions of each link, it would have been easier. Instead I find different ones each time in different places and have no idea which one I'm looking for. Some reference .bats that don't exist, maybe for other projects like the FM but not the most recent SID. I'll give it a whirl

It's more like there are many pages that all say things a little differently: Quickstart http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/windows_toolchain_quickstart?s=gpasm C Interface http://www.ucapps.de/mios_c.html Windows Toolchain Core http://www.midibox.org/dokuwiki/windows_toolchain_core All of them more or less are saying the same thing, differently, probably by a different person. They're all in different places and accessible from different places. I'll try the new version you brought to my attention, which was apparently linked at the bottom of another instead of listed in parallel ... ...

Haw Haw, like I should have turned left down a different unmarked country road! Thanks guys, gonna take a look.

This is more or less out of date : http://www.ucapps.de/howto_tools_gpasm.html There appears to no longer be any included make.bat files included. Is there another method to compile in windows? I tried typing in the example line of "gpasm -p 18f4685 -I ./src setup_6581.asm but it includes errors about missing files. I add ./include (because the vectors files was missing) and it doesn't work.

Cool, thanks guys

; Pin = 0 for the D7 output pin of the shift register ; Pin = 1 for the D6 output pin of the shift register ; ... ; Pin = 7 for the last output pin (D0) of the shift register Is the above true? So it's a mirror of not only the obvious, but also the DIN setup?