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[Davo]

I was reading the Wikipedia article for the Elektron SidStation and found a strange statement that there are aftermarket clones of the original SID chips. What are these aftermarket chips and who makes them?

Edited by Davo, 30 December 2010 - 02:17.

[JRock]

I don't know about no aftermarket chips, but that's some good readin'. If you find out where theyz at lemme know (via PM ;)

[ilmenator]

Not sure about aftermarket, this might be referring to the 6582 that Wilba used to sell. For an emulation in hardware, look at swinsid.

[Wilba]

[Wilba]

They can't be referring to 6582A SIDs which I sold, they won't work in a SidStation (wrong voltage, wrong filter caps). IMHO the supply was genuinely scarce, and they got lucky and found more 6581R4AR that weren't broken or cleaned-up pulls from C64s.

[jaans]

Wilba, I haven't been following this forum for long, so there could be an obvious answer to this question (or maybe there is no answer ;)), but did you manage to get all the rest of the existing stock when you did the 6582A mega sales a while back (unfortunately for me, that was before I was around)? Or is there a chance that there is still unused stock of 6582A chips to be found somewhere?

Reason I´m asking is that after listening to the two 6581:s and the two 6582A:s that are in my MB-6582, I think I should eventually try to acquire more 6582 chips to make the synth all-6582. Not that the 6581 sounds bad (when playing games with C64 I actually prefer 6581), but in a Midibox, the 6582 is superior.

Edited by jaans, 31 December 2010 - 16:35.

[Wilba]

Yes, I got all the stock that was available from that source, around 4000pcs 6582A and 500pcs 6582.

[Davo]

Who has the masks for the various revisions of SID? I wonder how much it would cost to have more made.

[Flemming]

$42,000,000

[nILS]

If you're willing to take the risk I bet you could buy some dead chinese IC factory and have a go ;)

[JRock]

How's about a discrete SID out of SMD Parts?

[nILS]

Hehe I've been thinking about making a discrete SMD clone of the SID, but but but...

[TK.]

Let's hope that Skra will finish his FPGA project (he is also member of this forum), usually he goes very deep into details:
http://skrasoft.com/blog/?cat=31

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[m00dawg]

Looks like he is also working on some other stuff (including NES stuff, which makes me excited almost as much as SIDs). Could be some neat stuff!