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works for me Goattracker 2.70 standard version (actually stereo version too but of course its of little use since only the first 3 tracks work) @ Intel E8400 Windows Vista Business 64-bit M-Audio delta audiophile

Just wanted to say THANK YOU! The kit was a breeze to assemble. The only trouble I had was when I forgot the jumpers for the Midi in/out, a mistake that didn't take long to realize. Guess I was eager to start playing with it. :rolleyes: Still haven't quite figured out what the F2 and F3 keys do :) Thought I might as well share two pictures of it with some other of my toys. Sammich! Including, imho, pretty nice 2 min paintjob Oombox 6581 (MBSID) GameBoy DMG with added back-lighting and noise free stereo jack Novation Remote keyboard

sorry, i was out of town this weekend here is the link: http://www.webhallen.com/prod.php?id=87211&traff=1 thats pretty much as cheap as it gets :) But its pretty thick and has a high viscosity and its non-conductive so it should do the trick. And I can't really imagine any paste not working if applied correctly. :rolleyes:

If you live in Sweden it shouldn't be a big problem. Places like clas ohlson, elfa and kjell&company have what you need. I got this power suply from kjell&co, i haven't tested it with the sammich yet (not finalized my build yet) but it should do the trick: http://www.kjell.com/content/templates/shop_main_details.aspx?item=44253 (Stabilized 12VDC @ 1000mA) I got the non-conductive thermal paste from webhallen but you could get it from pretty much anywhere.

What you need besides the kit is a power supply and some non-conductive non-fancy thermal paste for the heatsinks. Something that believe it or not, some people seem to have problems finding.

I've used MIDIYoke (with Miditrix) under Vista x64. Can't really help you with setting it up since I've had no problems. It just worked "out of the box." If you can, I'd go for a proper midi hardware solution. In my experience most MIDI <-> USB cables only create a bunch of problems.

very nifty little proggie will come in handy :thumbsup:

Nice to see em' being shipped. Hopefully enough people mysteriously disappear so I can get into batch #4. :rolleyes: Btw, I took the liberty to fix the link to the build guide in the wiki.

I'm happy as long as everyone (read me) can haz sammich :D

I bought it from a Polish company called artronic on Ebay. Got it supercheap! Only thing with it is that the symbol "|" shows up as "12". It may be possible to change the charset somehow but I haven't looked into it since it really doesn't bother me. Here is the datasheet: http://www.artronic.pl/o_produkcie.php?id=651?

Thanks for your kind words, and thanks for making it mbotw! Sadly I haven't got much time to play with it at the moment but every time I do I get this big smile on my face. :)

Day 5+ ;) My stuff on a carboard box has transformed into a fully working midibox. I call it the OOMbox 6581, my nickname is Oomiz. The sound is amazing! I tried feeding it the sidtune Rampert! It's one that pretty much tests every aspect of the sid-chip and I must have won the sid-lottery since my 6581 does exactly what it is supposed to. Anyway since I've written this thread to get help but also help others I want to give you newcomers a hint when connecting the DINX module. On the PCBs from smashtv, on the 10 header connectors, J3-J6, only the 10th pin is ground. NOT the 9th. This may be obvious for most people but I fooled myself and wasted quite some time figuring out why my buttons didn't work. About the buttons in my case, they are custom made by me since I couldn't find nice 1cm diameter buttons that are a bit soft but still tactile. I had a large bag of really long (20mm shaft) 6x6mm tactile switches so what I did was that I cut those short. Not something that I recommend, getting them equally long is tedious. Then I wired them up on a perfboard and put a device fot (the soft pads you put under stuff) in every hole of the fronpanel. Since the bottom of the pads are a bit larger than the hole they stay in the holes without actually attaching them with glue or anything to the switch shafts. The entire thing is built into a pac-tec KEU-10. It's more or less ready and has two banksticks, A0 for patches and A7 for ensembles. All I have to do now is figure out what I need a midibox for, I'm not a musician, but it sure was fun building it. Last step would probably be to paint the case, Oh and I might want to find a prettier encoder knob ;) Thanks to everyone helping out!

I use ASIDXP with my 6581. No samples are played. Also, ASIDXP only plays PSID files and not RSID files. (Both can have .sid as fileformat name)

Another option would be to just use Ati tray tools instead of CCC. (It's the same program that is installed with the omega drivers.)