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I did not notice crackling on my sidkick picos in the 64. I was wondering if it is a 128 thing or if running it through the motherboard of the old audio circuit has anything to do with it. I will be popping one into my newly acquired 128 soon. Great video !

ARMSID FW 2.16 finally fixed the 2MHz bus access problem

ARMSID FW 2.16 finally fixed the 2MHz bus access problem

Is there a way to build pico on the SID socket but plug in a real SID? Just want to be able to load a small program in memory by typing SYS xxxxx much like what you showed in this video.

Very nice project! I'm starting a comparable project myself with a ICS64S board and a SIDfx. However, I don't like to have switches sticking out of my prestine C64 case.Do you think we can have the SIDfx switches (like profile selection, etc.) replaced by the RPi Pico? Or does one need a crosspoint switch for that? (I still have some spare ones) - Cheers!

Further to this, I just bought a batch of Chinesium 6532 RIOT (RAM IO Timer) chips. They're used in a bunch of Commodore IEEE dish drives as well as some Atari machines, and SBCs. Anyway I was thinking about how to test them, and your video came to mind.... so I'm building a RIOT tester as a 'C64 Ridiculous Cart'. BTW, you speculated nothing much needed more than a few addresses. Well, the 6532 has 128 bytes of static RAM as well as the usual IO registers. So I'll definitely be using the entire IO1 address space! Anyhow, I'll let you know how it goes.

On the high notes it sounds like low sampling rate artifacts. So if that's the case, it seems logical that only the higher freq sounds are effected. It would drive me nuts. I stay with my dual sid setup for now. Does it only do this with the DAC board or also with direct audio out of the pico?

It’s amazing how Vultures just monitor the C64 Reddit for ideas to create videos for.

cool stuff your doing! what motherboard replacement are you using? noticed wifi modem on board. maybe show how you installed on board. thanks!

What's that C128 board? I have a few complete sets of C128 chips which I inherited a few years back. Might finally give them a home instead of them being doomed to wait for C128s breaking and being used as spares.

I had some weird distortion in my sidkick pico video when I used the dac, if you use the dual firmware for pwm and dac I wonder if your pwm signal is free from the distortion, was for me......

Another great video Insanity, and we would like to see some of your soldering and other parts of the build, Thats part of the joy of working on the 64's and 128's- thanks again

Always enjoy your videos- keep them coming

Nice video chap, memory map is a bit of a mess in commodore machines , there is a comparator chip that can help when addressing (74ls/hct688 ????? I think , ?? Slept since I used one ).....

Just purchased a C128 and the board has some water damage. Would you recomment transfering the components to a newer Neo board?

Project is right up my street! Awesome (although I'm the opposite - I have way more spare 6522s than 6526s, lol)

Your videos are always very interesting, love watching what you can do to a 64

I'm in Canada and PCBWay pricing is still in US dollars for me.

not sure if this matters but on the ultimate Sid player it showed one 6581 is NTSC and the other 6581 was PAL

I saw Adrian do a bunch of tests and adjustments on a board like that and came to the conclusion that it might make jail bars better in some colors but worse in others. Final conclusion was it doesn’t really fix anything

How useful is VDP memory upgrade?

ma leggerla direttamente sulla scheda?? si puo fare?

I got the same problem on a stock C128 (PAL). The FPGASID project has a bug report form (see "Support" section), they should be able to help. Please let me know if you find a solution.

Nice video, I suspect the timing of the fpgasid is timed after the edge of the system clock to expect address / data busses to be valid. Im currently testing the sidkick pico now that i have seen your videos on the c128 and replacement sids i suspect i may ha e some trouble with the c128 .......

There's unfortunately a silk screen issue on the Neo rev 4 board where the D5xx and D7xx markings on the board are the wrong way around. The pin header marked D5xx is actually D7xx and vice versa. Awesome build, it's nice to see the boards and quality of life addition being appreciated and enjoyed.

Nice, the problem with sid replacements is the extra husband speed, there are a few things the arm2sid can do to support 2 sids but it's a faff, hopefully this will get resolved

Sir where i can buy all toyota reset immo files .

Great video, love watching your videos, please keep them coming

Could you show how the same machine sounds With a real sid? Something is definitely going on, but I've never seen that demo run on an NTSC machine either. Perhaps the original did does things if no instructions are sent that the emulated ones does not.

Running CPM on it will confirm the Z80 is working well.

When someone has the ability to rattle off chip numbers….. it tells me this guy knows what he’s talking about… to say the least.

Excellent video. Excellent narrative and video content. A+++++++.

That was so informative man thanks, could swapping the EEPROMs from an old dead ECU to a newer one make the latter work with the original keys..? I have a 1999 Lexus with a bad ECU and I would like to know if I could just buy a used ECU with matching part numbers and swap the EEPROMs..

Could you reiterate the tooling you used in this video? Links on eBay expired. i wanted to verify the progammer and software, ill be in a situation simaler with an older Avalon

Just noticed what the Z80 issue is. The chip you had from Aliexpress is not actually a Z80 CPU, it's a Z80 SIO chip which is a serial I/O chip. The Z80 can be tricky like that since all the chips are labelled Z80 (CPU, CTC, DMA, PIO, SIO), I've fallen into that trap myself. :)

now with this mod working you need a zif socket in u33, so you dont destroy the board or rom when removing the rom from u33

If it's open collector then no diodes are needed. Just the pull up. Open collector outputs can be tied directly together.

Hey, you just created a C128/plus 4.

great video, your stuff always amaze me. Hope your enjoying New Zealand, Merry Christmas

Very nice mod chap, gonna check out that start apps stuff that looks really cool..... have a great Xmas

Interesting mod.

Good stuff thank you👍 Radio Shack "the good stuff" ain't nothing like it (Radio Shack Rebirth)...😁

Subscriber nr 1000. Congrats!

That looks so cool...... as does the "wopr" did you make that?

This is an awesome program. Thanks for sharing

You Can use 010 or 020 rom's and make 4 or 8 different kernels...it will require 2 switches.

Geos?

Iron maiden \,,/(>_<)\,,/

How does one hold their hands so steady… I’ve gotten into soldering recently and one of my biggest obstacles is my hands being a shaky mess while trying to do precision work.

latest commodore is amazing but its actually an evolution of its predecessor