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Funnily enough a thread on the very same encoders was bumped today after a long gap: http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,11983.0/topicseen.html Id say theyre fine for hand soldering, just ask futureman.

AWWW YEAH!

He might also mean the number of Smash TV's current Sid PCB - R3A :P

This is what comes up on 2 of the reigstration page: I was able to register okay, just threw in midibox.org as the company name lol. You can have a look too yourself by entering some random info on the first page: https://radionics.rs-online.com/web/authHome.html Heh, the name changes to Radionics when i select Ireland.

When i was registering on radiospares ireland the other day it had mandatory fields for business information, so i wonder is it the same worlwide? :-\ I dont know would it be a good idea if i did the bulk order, ireland is a bit of a rip off nation, id imagine the p+p prices might be high, and also the cost of packaging - unless i bought that online. How reliable irish post is too i dont know, its reliable for stuff coming inside the country alright!

That looks perfect! Should be wiki'd on an Optimised PSU page if one exists.

That is a fantastic price! We surely would be able to hit 25 - at least. We need to get a wiki up as soon as some generous guy volunteers to manage the bulk order.

haha, it could be me for all i know, but being 6th on the list or so, it would be fairly disgraceful on my part!

I just totalled up the column in Excel and im getting 123 as the total. Id say people forgot to add to the total figure. Does anyone else want to confirm?

Edit: What goblins said, i should of being more specific. I noticed its gone in the older multimeter too which i just use for the continunity beeper, my working multimeter doesnt have this function.

I found a nice little page here on Cynthias Page called: "Girls On Snyth" with links to each Lady: http://www.cyndustries.com/woman.cfm

LOL. I suppose this gal should also get a mention? Shes like a modern day Laurie Spiegel: http://www.youtube.com/user/tarabusch although i dont think she has done any diy stuff. meh

FUCK ME??? Do you want to................FUCK ME? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3uqNkmzww

Cool chick! I think TK should hook up with her, and get married or something! ;)

:D

OOOoooohhhhhh. I just had a look at the fuse close up based on your recommendation goblinz, and it is indeed burnt out, the line is broke, and tested it for continunity just to be sure. So maybe the smell of burn must have come from the fuse, and the smoke came out of the only probe socket which had not being blocked, hence my confusion! ;) Funny how the multimeter still works though. although i think it may have stopped reading AC voltages after that happened. Hmm *ponders where he could find a 200ma fuse.*

I'd never test mains voltage with one of those hobbyist multimeters. I would only trust an electricians multimeter, which have much thicker probes and much higher voltage rating. I remember my first time testing the 12v AC pins of my psu, and a smell of burn coming from the multimeter. Mine has 2 Red sockets for the probes, and 1 Black (Com) socket. I was using the wrong red socket for AC voltages of that size, and hence the smoke coming from the unused socket. Imagine i had tested the mains voltage with it, the multimeter would of set on fire non doubt at 20 times the voltage i was testing on the PSU. Or at least melted it very badly.

Excellent Video man. I wonder would it be a good idea to enable Flash Embedding on this forum? Its disabled by default in SMF. Its kind of a tease to have the button there but not been able to use the feature! ;)

I would also be interested, provided i have money left over from the other mb-6582 stuff. So im a maybe for now!

Haha cool! It wont be as great as that im afraid, more of a breakdown of the features of the chip, and the history will be of what i can piece together from wikipedia, and that in depth SID page! I wont be flying over to Mr. Yannes to interview him unfortuneatly! But hey at least its a start, maybe it will inspire someone to do a professional docu on the sid or something!

You need to get yourself a "7-pin DIN Socket". I cant seem to find ones that mount onto PCBs, the ones like the original c64 socket. all im finding are the Chasis Mount ones. You will have to solder wires from the connector to the PCB, if you cannot find a PCB mount socket. This is what it looks like, make sure the holes are in the same position: http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/264929-conn-din-7-pin-female-panel-mnt-sd-70sn.html

I was just about to ask you a silly question Nils, Re: why a 5x addon board instead of a 4x? But obviously in this case you would not use 2 midi sockets on the GM5 PCB right? And by other sizes you meant a 4X, and possibly an 10X for use with 2 GM5 pcbs?

Aha! Thanks for the link buhler! ;D How can you have an 8-bit documentary without giving the best 8-bit analogue synth chip ever made, a proper tribute! I guess the Nintendo Famicon being more widely known today has a lot to do with it! I think its time to show the world the power of sid!

They also have a full documentary up from last year called "Video Games Live" http://www.2playerproductions.com/video/vgl

Is it possible that some of these patches use Mixed Waveforms? Have you tried playing the oscillators without using patches, just by say playing the standard waveforms via midi? This is most likely not the case but one possible reason nonetheless.