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Are there any "gotchas" I should be aware of in using a SID as a stand-alone peripheral for the 6502 SBC? I'm looking at the C64 schematic and it looks to me to be like any other peripheral chip but with a 32-byte address block requirement.

I found a replacement, emulated SID called the SWINSID which I ordered from a chap in Italy (look for item 171489650485) that's in a DIP28 form. I should have it in a week or so and I'll try to prototype something and see if it works.

If so, I might add it to the next version of the SBC. Boy, it's getting crowded on that board...

Rich

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Rich Cini
Build Master and maintainer of the Altair32 Emulation project
http://cini.classiccmp.org
http://altair32.classiccmp.org

I assume your SBC is faster than 1MHz. The datasheet http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_6581_sid.pdf states that at pin 6 (PHI2), there must be a nominal clock speed of 1.0 MHz. I’ll prototype this on my SBC in the near future. Perhaps the SWINSID is more flexible and can take a higher clock speed.

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Marco

When I plugged that part number into my evil search engine, it dropped me on the appropriate page, but it was obviously in Spanish, not Italian. I guess I shouldn't read anything into it, since the world has become such a small place, but it still struck me as peculiar.

Mike

There's some good links I posted about SWINSID in this link.

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65Org16:https://github.com/ElEctric-EyE/verilog-6502

The SwinSID link I have on my links page is apparently dead, although it was good not long ago:
http://www.swinkels.tvtom.pl/swinsid/
If anyone knows what happened to it (like if it got moved), please let me know.

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

It works fine for me, Garth (Google Chrome on Vista, flame suit at-the-ready).

Mike

On both computers, with two versions of Ubuntu, I'm still getting:

but I don't have trouble with any other websites.

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

Works for me. Until you get a local fix, you can try the wayback archive:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www ... l/swinsid/

Thanks Ed, but that doesn't work for me either. I still have been having no trouble at all with other websites though. I asked our son to try it in the other room, and it worked for him, with the same OS, same version, and same browser.

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

I have a similar problem here, with dclxvi's site http://www.lowkey.comuf.com/ ... I can't figure out why I can't view it on my main home computer, but I don't have the appropriate skill-set to diagnose the problem, which certainly seems to be at my end.

Mike

Our son tried it again today, and now it has stopped working for him too.

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http://WilsonMinesCo.com/ lots of 6502 resources
The "second front page" is http://wilsonminesco.com/links.html .
What's an additional VIA among friends, anyhow?

It works for me at home but is blocked at work as "suspicious". A derivative product is here:

http://www.nightfallcrew.com/05/04/2011/nano-swinsid-prototype-unboxing-and-first-impressions/. The version I got on eBay uses all SMD components (including the oscillator) but is in the same DIP24 (600 mil) form factor.

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Rich Cini
Build Master and maintainer of the Altair32 Emulation project
http://cini.classiccmp.org
http://altair32.classiccmp.org

Interesting. Now the 'swinkels' link is working for me from that nightfallcrew.com link and also same link from one of the sublinks I'd posted before. It was not working yesterday, but now they are. What is the meaning of this?

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65Org16:https://github.com/ElEctric-EyE/verilog-6502

That site is upright with a pulse right now.

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