SIDKICK PICO - The NEW Replacement low-cost SID CHIP for the C64 / C128
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- In This video i look at the new replacement SID device for the C64 and C128 the "SIDKICK PICO", This low cost SID replacement uses a raspberry pi PICO to add upto 2 SID chips into your commodore :)
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Thanks for this! Very interested in building some of these as have a bunch of c64's with no SID. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for sharing the deep dive! I hadn't heard about this option yet; it's great that the community has given us so many ways to keep the old systems alive.
Yea these mean sid chips can be replaced very cheaply
Hey mate thanks for the shout out, great video! My boards should be arriving soon and I'm hopeful it'll work better in C128 mode than the other SID replacements I've tried.
So far the pico is working really well, I have it configured at $4d20 and SMB seems to work OK, gonna get another vid together (filmed half), so far, really liking the picp
@@CaptainCommodore great news! Have you tried the RFO VDC demo?
@insanity213 not yet, but I did try the actual sids used in the demo which play back well, sound in 128 mode works fine once the correct sid model is selected
Sound good the buddy 😮 although I may try one myself one day good we have these options available 😊 loved the music playing can’t beat a bit of Sid synthesised music
Awesome Video .. I didnt know about these. id love to do another comparison video like ive done with other alternatives... Keep up the great work mate .. Loving the sid tunes thanks for leaving them running :)
Will sort you one out
@@CaptainCommodore Awesome your a star :)
Great video Lee :) The sound is great! ...and I do like how You made a low packed sandwich, really nice. Cheers!
I hate to be rude but audio level being all over the place makes this unwatchable.
Yes , unfortunately I recorded some segments on my phone, I was unable to dynamically normalise, however , I have now got wireless mics for future videos
Huh.. totally missed this one. This will save a lot of money compared to the teensy version
This is superb
@@CaptainCommodore Thanks for making me aware of it, I'll put it on the long list of soldering jobs
The way SID-muzak needs to be (re-)composed to fit on that basically karaoke-band-machine it is in its core is so friggin amazing, still since first contact. How broad those sounds expand, worblin through your very soul and munch it away happily, lol. Fuck, i love it - thx for sharing!
Ooh, I want one for my fantasy 65816 build.
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I know Exectly what you mean ......
A shame you can not test it in another Bread Bin. It does sound good though. If you could only pick 1 between Armsid and this Sidkick pico which one ?
I have quite a few machines and replacement sids, I love the armsid and arm2sid but this is sounding just as good, will try in my c128 and another breadbin when I get time. Before it would have been armsid.... 100% now I'm much more torn , prob the pic tbh
If anyone is making these and selling them in the U.K., could you link to them please? I have one poorly breadbin that needs a compatible sid replacement.
We need some side by side sound samples. To me it doesn't sound like a SID.
I take it you have a c64/c128 ? Download the hvsc psid collection and then run exactly the same files, see for yourself !!! I left full tracks at the end of the video
I have some pcb's for this, where did you get your 74cbt3861 from ? the ones I got from Aliexpress were twice the size and fake I think :(
Mine were from Ali..... got them from here:
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Thank you :) @@CaptainCommodore
@@CaptainCommodore You did well choosing to get those from Ali, digikey held my order over those. ended up cancelling it. I'll get some from China
@thomassmith4999 to be honest I don't really have any problems with Chinese chip except for 2 occasions, 1st Royal Fail decided to post my parcel elsewhere then told me to claim from the 12 sellers ...... I lost right out, and 2nd GAL chips, these were pulls as they are not in production anymore, high number of failures
@@CaptainCommodore I prefer buying from China myself, got well over 3000 orders from Aliexpress. got fake chips like twice. Nothing to be concerned about. The whole shady side of electronics sanctions doesn't enthuse me much so I like the we don't care about such silly things China attitude.
Soooooo.....How much is this low cost gonna cost me? I dont see any prices!
@kingforaday8725 I'm not selling them, depends if you buy from someone or build it yourself........ The price is how much you can get the components for
Why the hell didn't they just put the RP2040 on the board instead of mounting a whole Pico on top?
You absolutely could do that, I reckon they just aimed to make it easy to build
Does the analog input work?
I havnt tested that, bit I believe it does, if anything it should work better than the original REAL sid jitter wise
I have an old machine that I finally revived, here in Japan, but it had a SID chip with the 3rd voice toasted outputting static the whole time. I think that I got a swinSID like year and a half ago but when I went to run GEOS with joystick set to default, something was wierd. I want to get one.@@CaptainCommodore (It always seems so weird when you use a modern SBC to replace an old IC, but as the least expensive way and least path of resistance, it is the only way to accommodate the second law of thermodynamics for the least amount of money. Or something like that...I love it because, pure retro guys as well as emulation guys have to think about it again from a purely astrophysics point of view. LOL!
@@CobraTheSpacePirate There was nothing "weird"... The swinsid chip does not support mouse/paddles.
I already knew that.@@walterg74
Even with Joystick selected in GEOS, mouse movement was erratic. As if it was still trying to read from the analog inputs. That is why I would like to try the SIDKICK. To see if the behavior changes or is the same.
yeat again same thing newest what we allready had properrer allready emulatte full c64 xD
What?
for english and very easy. its done every time some chip/board come.
we can just use those when they working@@walterg74