From nothing to 2 working SIDs?? (mono6581 and MB6582)
I´m a complete newbie at electronics but stumbled upon the midibox sid surfing the net. Used to own a Elektron Sidstation which I loved and have missed ever since (but way too expensive these days..). The midibox Sid seems even much better and I´ve always wanted to learn some electronics and soldering so...here I am;-) I think it will be a loooong journey before I have a working sid but this is my Mt Everest or something :D Been here daily reading for more then a month now (this forum is incr
Finaly had some spare time today and tried Wilbas suggested method of testing the core crystal/caps. I used the proved working pic #2 and put it in proved working CORE3 with crystal/caps (pin 13 and 14) of CORE4. I got a "ready" message and was very :) the method worked! Then tried non-working CORE2 with crystal/caps of CORE3 and got a "ready" message!! So at this point I thought the problem was solved. Bad crystal and/or caps in CORE2. But for a final test I tried to put the pic in CORE1 and us