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We've had a few people come out with injuries and other health issues lately so it's not so unbelievable these days :-F
Damn, now my joke was in poor taste too... sorry about that.
Do you even know who is the author of MIDIbox? How the project is licensed? How did I rip them off? There are millions of other MIDIbox SID projects! Also MB-6582 is still sold. And this guy calls me an upstart polack! FUCK THIS DUDE!
LOL... yeah, fuck me indeed. I need a good fucking and my comeuppance is long overdue.
I've known the MIDIbox author (TK) a long time. I've hung out with him in Munich, twice. I gave him an MB-6582 (also my design, BTW). And a sammichSID. And a sammichFM. And he'll get a prototype of the next synth.
The licence of MIDIbox projects is a vague mishmash of open source but non-commercial. It's not entirely clear to me, and I've apparently adhered to the licence so far, so whatever... There are many implementations of a MIDIbox SID synth. However, sammichSID is my copyrighted design, and approved for sale in kits by TK. Are sammichSID PCBs open source? No. Are sammichSID PCB design files publicly available? No. Are sammichSID case design files available? If you ask me nicely, yes.
If you copy the sammichSID design for your own personal amusement and your own one-off creations, I don't give a fuck. Stick the logo on it too if you want, and I don't give a fuck. If you copy it and start selling it under the sammichSID name, then I start to give a fuck, and act like a little kid and troll the fuck out of you. I called you a polack. Sorry about that. I didn't think it was offensive. I must have got it mixed up with calling Canadians "canucks". You can call me a wog or dago or whatever insult is appropriate for a mongrel of Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Slovenian and miscellaneous Slav, and then we can call it even. Or both agree to stop acting like little kids.
Seriously, I'm usually a pretty nice guy IRL and online, and it gets boring. Sometimes it's nice to put on my arrogant asshole hat and take it out for a stroll.
The point: If you're going to copy something of mine and then call it a sammichSID, people may associate your project with my project; they may think (incorrectly) that it has my approval, or has the same parts, or same build quality; you are effectively trading on my reputation.... and then I may get a little shitty and start trolling for lulz and profit.
To the rest of you: I tried to make the excuse for my absence from the scene for a year sound so obviously fake that you would all have a laugh...
Thanks for the wishes of good health, though... :-) 2013 was just a real shit of a year in many ways, but it wasn't as bad as being in a coma.
I mean, seriously... you get in a car accident and are in a coma for nine months and then another three months learning how to walk again and eat cereal without getting milk in your beard and you finally get enough fine motor skills to use a mouse and keyboard and then check up on CM.org and find out that when your little baby sammichSID doesn't get sold for a few months, some upstart polack comes and makes a clone of it, and a pretty piss-poor one at that.
Well, it seems I may have to fire up the sammichSID factory again in 2014 just to satisfy those couple dozen chiptune/hackers who didn't get one of the 600 or so that I've sold already...
well, that escalated quickly...
@scannerboy: Does this use the same rocker switch as the C64, or some cheap looking toggle switch like the sammichSID clone made by that epic douchebag vintagestar in that wretched hive of scum and villainy (aka. Hong Kong).
@scammerboy: Is that knob a genuine Rean P401 soft-touch knob?
@scannerboy: Interesting project...
Is this compatible with the original sammichSID case?
sequencer is taken from x0xb0x, sid synth presumably from midibox
Highly unlikely the SID synth firmware is MIDIbox SID. They already got called out for copying of my MB-6582 design without permission.
http://m.matrixsynth.com/2011/04/mode-m … on-of.html
So I doubt they would try that again. Plus it looks totally different, hardware and software.
I could go on, buy my lawyers advise me not to, apparently sharing opinions that offend people is unlawful (at least in Australia).
Just showing off the new Lexan overlays that come with the current batch of sammichSID:
I'll sell them separately to existing sammichSID owners with totally botched up paint filled engraving. I totally regret making so many people stuff about with the painting step, which even I can't get right 100% of the time 
so selling these "after market" is my attempt to make things right. I'll also be selling black rear panels without engraving, so the rear panel can be replaced as well.
If I'd done overlays from the start, the artwork would have been less minimalistic, not being restricted to laser engraving of acrylic. So these overlays are also pretty minimalistic and practically identical to the original design, so they can match whatever LCD and LED combos people have used on their sammichSID. The overlay has a matte finish and is almost identical to the matte black acrylic case. I might be doing a white version to match the white (Arctic Ice) cases... I'll have to gauge interest first.
If you want one of these overlays, please don't email me just yet. Watch this thread for an announcement of price and how to order information.
so much crunchy goodness... awesome!
Maybe the template can be an SVG file, then you can print through Inkscape or export to bitmap at any resolution you like.
Here's another explanation of how LCDs work: http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/p … s/history/
TL;DR version:
Using an inverted polarizer gives a better contrast on DMG, I forgot the science behind it, though 
It is just physically different than merely swapping pixel colours in software (i.e. just changing LSDJ's "LOOK" param) or via an inverter IC.
The "bivert" mod is just using an inverted polarizer and also inverting the bits going to the LCD. So it is back to normal in the sense that pixels that should be dark are dark, but now there's an inverted polarizer in play, giving you better contrast.
Here's the different backlights that kitsch-bent sells, showing normal, inverted polarizer, and biverted.
Note the big difference for the white ones.
AFAIK inverted polarizers don't work well with reflected light, and if you're modding a DMG LCD, you've already committed to using backlight all the time, as you have to remove the mirror film along with the existing polarizing film. Since Nintendo planned not to use backlights, they used the best thing for a reflective LCD, which is a "positive" LCD polarizer.
Wilba I didn't know you liked the bass!
lol... you must not have seen me dancing like an epileptic gorilla at Blip AU
I love kitch-bent's inverted green backlights, and I think they are the best in terms of brightness and contrast (not including EL backlights)
White is also good for brightness and contrast, but the pixels will be blue. This is why people recommend green, the pixels will be more black because there's less blue light passing through them.
Here's a tip for biverting: http://chipmusic.org/forums/topic/6031/ … -mount-ic/
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