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No idea about your request for code, but matrix scanning routines are all very simular in the basic concept. Take a look at the MidiboxKB project or look in the Midification forum, reading a key matrix are covered in these areas. Hope you find what you'r looking for, Yogi

Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your wiki about Eclipse, very nice IDE (also setting it up for WUDSN assembly) I'm working through the setup for mios32 and I have a problem I haven't been able to solve. I've set the workspace and environment as per the wiki, but trying to build the app_skeleton_cpp the compile halts with errors " **** Build of configuration Default for project app_skeleton_cpp **** make all C:\mios32\trunk/include/makefile/common.mk:126: *** multiple target patterns. Stop. " within ..\include\makefile\common.mk this line error: " # rule to create .elf file $(PROJECT_OUT)/$(PROJECT).elf: $(ALL_OBJS) @$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(ALL_OBJS) $(LIBS) $(LDFLAGS) -o$@ " So I've tried setting the envi variables as per the screen cap in the wiki, with both the unix style MIOS32_PATH "/C/mios32" and WinDOS style "C:\mios32" but no success. Any idea of where I went wrong?!? Thanks for your time, Van EDIT: Well, I found the answer in Thanks, Van

Hi nILs, If you end up with an extra board, no chip, "I wanna be a happy fella!" Yogi

Hi Jason, PM sent, thanks.

Someday I want to have enough room to set them all up. Just have the Atari800 and a Stella out now, most the others are in boxes. Too many toys, too little time.

Maryland near the DC metro area. Ya I'm looking for the brown keyboard but I don't have a spare sid. I got this C64 for the sid, working on a midibox, then I thought I would build up an AVRsid to put the C64 back together. Kind'a got a classic 'puter jones going on, can't just trash an old box. Yogi

Hi Hoping someone might have a working Keyboard assy. from a C64 (i.e. you pulled the SID and are scrapping the rest) I just need the Keyboard assy, mine has a few broken keys. Willing to go as high as $10 +shipping Yogi

My order arrived yesterday, thanks again.

TK, Just completed PayPal payment. Thanks, Bill

looks like a cool project. :D Just added 4 to the wiki pg.

General Instruments had a chip, SP0256-AL2, with a set of alphones that you could address and create unlimited speech. just noticed that http://www.speechchips.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=7 says they have them in stock @ $29. The S&S roms just contains a set of predefined words and not the basic parts of speech. I'm not sure how easy it would be to access any parts of those words. But the old school chips do have a sound that just says "robot", the newer PIC based chips are nice but for me they don't sound 'cool'. The MS sapi voices are too good, I tend to use the more robotic voices and effects because the Mary voice dry sounds too human. Yogi

google 'Circuit bending'; the Speak and Spell is one of the favs for bending. Just about all the bender sites have a Speak and Spell/math/what have you that has been hacked to put out wierd/bent sounds. Highly Liquid has a Midi In kit, if you want to add control to the unit. Yogi

Well, I'm just point-to point wiring a proto (most of my 'one off' project are finished as P-to-P). I'm sure once the design is verified, there will be a BDR file posted, but can't speak for nILS Podewski. Yogi

Sparx, you mean buizness! 10! can't wait to hear all of them! I also got mine from Mike's, very fast shipping. Yogi

Ditto; Wilba and SmashTV should both get a firm pat on the back. The amount of hours to design and kit such a project shows real service to this hobby community. Without such shinning stars, many would not have a chance to roll up their sleeves and join in. Yogi

Take your time, and good luck on your mid terms(?) I'm going to build up a duel board (one set of shift regs for two pokeys). can't wait, love the old Atari sounds! Happy holidays,Yogi

Just got two Pokeys (pokey and gumby) for this project. soon as I wrap up my SID box, will be building some more boards. Yogi

"I went with the first option and the weird thing is after the rectifier the multimeter reads 14.5 DC volts!? " This is 100% norm, you will always have a higher DC then the input AC from a bridge rect. You are converting both the pos going and neg going halfs of the sign wave to a pos DC output. "But I'm wondering if I'm not pushing too much the 7805 with the 14v?" you will need a heat sink, the 7805 is 'wasting' 10V as heat. A 7805 can handle this, but in the long run heat will kill it so it does need a heat sink; use heat sink grease too. "is possible for the 7805 to pass the full 14v if it gets damaged?" Yes and No, if the reg 'melts' down it can fail as a short but a dead short will burn its self out to a open in short order. The usual fail mode is an open (no output). The best placement for the fuse is before the reg., it will blow before the rest of the PSU if a short happens. ;-) Yogi