Incompatible hardware?!

MIDIbox SID
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I’m using the Core PCB from Mikeselectroniksite and the Sid PCBs from Smash TV. The Letters from J2 of the Sid module and the J10 from the Core module don’t match up, they’re different letters. The new style SID PCB have a ‘clk’ and got rid of ‘md’ and the ‘sc’ is in a different location than shown through the http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp/mbhp_sid_c64_psu.pdf layout.

I tried following the schematic as if nothing were different but after I do this, I don’t have the correct voltages and the lcd doesn’t show ‘ready’ after the copyright screen.

Please, someone, tell me there’s a way around this besides buying a core module from Smash TV to match the smashtv sid module.

:-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X :-X

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That’s weird. I had the same problem yesterday.

But fortunately my right hand was able to move my mouse to that forum-search field.

I’ve typed in “CORE SID connect” and suddenly my brain was flooded with information!

And now my SID is nearly working!

…sorry, for being sarcastic, but posts like yours are just unnecessary and do just waste the forum…

regards,

matthias

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Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, SLP, however replies like yours are what is unnecessary.

And yes, I will search the forums harder from now on. I get the point.

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I think your response is a bit self-righteous cyutaeha. It’s been said 1000 times to read read read, and use the search. If you ignored that advice then you can expect to be told once again.

SLP: You could have used a smiley or two in there mate (or *whack*). I think your sarcasm was probably intended as humour, because I know you - but cyutaeha doesn’t know you, so he might take offence (which he clearly has).

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OK so I do hate dragging this on but, in my own defense, I did search the forums prior to this initial post. I did find many topics regarding this issue and, no, there were no answers. The closest I got to was http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,9672.0.html, which the title is “Help needed connecting Smash’s SID to Mike’s CORE”, so I thought, “Great this is exactly what I need”. The poster solved the problem but never said what he did to fix it. Someone actually asked later after the subject was changed what he did to fix it and still no answer about it from the poster. After that I posted here to be told that

posts like yours are just unnecessary and do just waste the forum

.

And in an attempt to counter the, in my opinion, uncalled-for-sarcasm (if someone has to say

…sorry, for being sarcastic

then the initial comment was meant to make someone feel like an idiot), I deliberately wrote a self-righteous response, hence misrepresenting my situation.

It’s quite trivial to drag on something like this, but I feel I’ve come across as being a bit petty. I apologize.

Smilies for everyone!!! :slight_smile: :smiley: ;D 8) 8) ;D :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue: :stuck_out_tongue: :-* ::slight_smile: ;D :smiley: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :wink: :smiley: :wink: :slight_smile: :wink: :smiley:

…and for future reference for anyone searching the forums, here is what i ended up doing for a Smash’s SID to Mike’s CORE problem:

The connections are like so:

Core:              Sid:

  Rc                Rc

  Vd                Vc

  Vs                Vs

  Md                Sc

  PWM              Clk

  So                So

  Mu                Mu

(Nothing actually deviates from the physical placement of the wires from the psu schematic)

…however this didn’t work for me and gave me problems, however I found that when using this http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp/mbhp_sid_c64_psu.pdf power setup (as I intended to only have one SID at first and then compensate with the http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp/mbhp_8xsid_c64_psu_optimized.pdf setup later when I added more SIDS and CORES) is what was giving me the problems. So I used the latter of the two power setups and everything was working like it should.

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OK so I do hate dragging this on but, in my own defense, I did search the forums prior to this initial post. I did find many topics regarding this issue and, no, there were no answers.

Tip for next time: Show your work so far… If you’d posted a link to that thread that you found when searching, I’m sure you would have gotten a different response.

All we had to go on was that you’d asked the question, and given that the answer was available in search results, it’s a natural assumption for SLP to think that you didn’t search - especially since it happens a lot around here!

Now you know another reason why it’s important for everyone to search before asking - If you don’t, then you make the laziness commonplace, and then people will assume that other posters haven’t searched, when maybe they have. :wink:

The closest I got to was http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,9672.0.html, which the title is “Help needed connecting Smash’s SID to Mike’s CORE”, so I thought, “Great this is exactly what I need”. The poster solved the problem but never said what he did to fix it. Someone actually asked later after the subject was changed what he did to fix it and still no answer about it from the poster.

Argh! I hate when that happens!

I hope you’ve updated that thread with the information you gathered?  :wink:

…and for future reference for anyone searching the forums, here is what i ended up doing for a Smash’s SID to Mike’s CORE problem:

The connections are like so:

Core:              Sid:

  Rc                Rc

  Vd                Vc

  Vs                Vs

  Md                Sc

  PWM              Clk

  So                So

  Mu                Mu

(Nothing actually deviates from the physical placement of the wires from the psu schematic)

Good on you for posting the answer! :smiley:

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The closest I got to was http://www.midibox.org/forum/index.php/topic,9672.0.html, which the title is “Help needed connecting Smash’s SID to Mike’s CORE”

alright,… and what about those?:

Connecting the CORE and SID

Connecting SID to CORE

Core to SID connection*

Connecting the SID and the Core

The poster solved the problem but never said what he did to fix it

I don’t know what you mean by that.

But have a look at the 11th reply in that thread

And in the thread that I’ve marked with an “*”, Wilba said:

They don't all match name for name, that's the confusing bit!
The pins to connect will be in the same position on those 2x5 headers.

And to avoid this confusion the future I’ll write a big article in the wiki  :slight_smile:

Sorry If you’ve felt being offended (english grammar sucks, btw.  ;D), I wasn’t meant like that.

regards

matthias