Davo Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 (edited) 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 December 30, 2010 by Davo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRock Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 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 ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilmenator Posted December 30, 2010 Report Share Posted December 30, 2010 Not sure about aftermarket, this might be referring to the 6582 that Wilba used to sell. For an emulation in hardware, look at swinsid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilba Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilba Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaans Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 (edited) 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 December 31, 2010 by jaans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilba Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Yes, I got all the stock that was available from that source, around 4000pcs 6582A and 500pcs 6582. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davo Posted December 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Who has the masks for the various revisions of SID? I wonder how much it would cost to have more made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flemming Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 $42,000,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted January 1, 2011 Report Share Posted January 1, 2011 If you're willing to take the risk I bet you could buy some dead chinese IC factory and have a go ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRock Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 How's about a discrete SID out of SMD Parts? :smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Hehe I've been thinking about making a discrete SMD clone of the SID, but but but... :hmm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00dawg Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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