oscillating wrote:

The cart accesses $DE00 $DF00 for midi and memory.

And here is why MSSIAH and SID2SID fucking suck, if you have a SID2SID board, populated, your DE00 SID is conflicting with Kerberos, so you might run into many issues.
SID2SID is garbage. I made my own SID board. It isn't hard. You said you were into electronics and modifications, so why would you not just get what's needed and build your own, proper board? Relying on a pre-made solution created by a lazy person that half-ased the effort, is not a great option in my book.

oscillating wrote:

The seller said a datel midi interface will be out soon. And then you'll need a cartridge port xpander to plug in cynthcart and the midi interface.

No. DATEL interfaces go in the user port I think. Not sure though because I never seen one in the flesh.
You'd need an expander if you ran Kerberos and Cynthcart. And yest hat's the point of the expander, to support many cartridges at once.

BUT, problem again, this works ONLY if the addresses don't conflict.
You need to be sure that your particular combination of hardware doesn't have overlapping addresses.

In your current setup already, if you put a Kerberos cartridge, your internal second SID is conflicting with it.


Oh and before I forget, one extra note on adding SIDs: they're power hungry, and the more you add, the more strain you can put on the C64 power supply. Knowng that a lot of C64 power supplies are absolute garbage and can kill your computer, I'd be wary of how many I add while using a standard power brick.

https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsounds/

I wish MSSIAH never ran with those stupid addresses. The reason SID2SID is made the way it is is laziness: hacking in two chips this way is a no brainer because it needs no decoding, but $DE00 and $DF00 are BAD addresses because they CONFLICT with freezer and other cartridges. Really a stupid move and one more reason why MSSIAH sucks balls.

I don't understand why you say that "kerberos uses the second SID at D420". Kerberos doesn't use the SID at all, if you refer to any of the software in it that do use it, it would be nice to know which. SIDWizard lets you choose whatever addresses you want. Are you referring to Cynthcart?

My advice: throw the SID2SID board to the garbage where it belongs, and get Vanessa's Symphony II or her Dual SID board: http://digitalaudioconcepts.com/vanessa … jects.html

DJ Sonikku creating segamusic.

herr_prof wrote:

read only is still pretty good, write your songs at home with a real floppy, and burn to the cart for gigs!

Only that it doesn't always work.
SID Wizard had to be patched to be able to use those weird disk devices according to the manual. Since I use a diferent SID Wizard version, they don't work.
Anything I tried by enabling disk mode and flashing has NOT worked.
So, it's pretty useless unless the software you burn specifically supports this kinda device..

No, you can't assume, because it doesn't work.

Write support isn't supported. Ask Frank Buß why. Also Kerberos has no serial port connection, for it to work even as an IEC device it would need a cable going to the serial port, like all other IEC devices (flioppy drives, emulators, SD2IECs etc). If there's a workaround for this, writing directly to the cartridge (maybe like a REU RAM disk is handled), it was not figured out how before Frank decided to kill Kerberos development.

His mail to me about the issue:

currently the write feature is missing, but planned:

https://github.com/FrankBuss/kerberos/issues/6

It is complicated to implement this with the limited resources of the C64, because basically it has to emulate a 1541 ROM, with the added difficulty that only 4k flash sectors can be written, but it should be possible. I hope that I can find some more time this year to implement it, then I'll send an update eMail to all customers for the new menu system (the cartridge disk implementation is integrated in the menu system).

Regards,

Frank

That was last year.
I guess he knew there could be  way, but he never did it. Because if he had intended to also have a disk emulator/IEC device in the cart, he would have added a serial port. But he didn't.
I feel like the disk support is a gimmick he added last minute because why not.

No. Kerberos does not supprt save. You need an SD2IEC, floppy emulator or floppy drive.

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Depends on what you want to do with it. Cynthcart is simpler, but the MIDI enabled version will cover the needs of most people who only want the very simplest SID sounds (which they might as well be sampling tongue)
Cynthcart is free so you can test it anyway.
Sound examples from the official page:
http://www.qotile.net/audio/cynth1.mp3
http://www.qotile.net/audio/cynth2.mp3
http://www.qotile.net/audio/cynth3.mp3
http://www.qotile.net/audio/cynth4.mp3

The MIDI enabled version is available here: http://www.frank-buss.de/kerberos/Cynthcart-1.5.0.prg
MIDI mapping table: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/kerbero … 2qLLB7VE4J

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.double post sowwy.

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You can't diagnose a C64 with MSSIAH, it's a shitty piece of software.

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Thumbs up for cutest chiptune-withstanding Corgi.

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A bad SID can go out of tune. I had one that once had a few notes going awfully wrong.
The best way to check if shit is in tune is with a guitar tuner. As Mat says, maybe the MSSIAH freq tables are shit (wouldn't be surprised).

Did you try using other software like CYNTHCART or RETROSKOI???

This is the only SID diagnostic tool you should ever use:
http://ploguechipsounds.blogspot.com/20 … hmark.html

Mono starts with an "init" patch, meaning none of the SID sound registers are set. Patches may not be loading or something. It could also be a filter problem.
MSSIAH's SID "test" is far from complete, just because you get a beep out of it doesn't mean you get sound out of the SID with every waveform and filter combination.
It has nothing to do with the cartridge, if you had a problem with the contacts, the software wouldn't load at all.

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herr_prof'd

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Jellica wrote:

no saving. write it down on a piece of paper thing

Seriously? I thought it had memory for 8 patterns or so.
That's a deal breaker.
[edit] Korg says "Up to eight sequence patterns you create can be stored in internal memory". Do these not keep after power is off?