Music Tech DIY • Open source Sid Guts Deluxe build thread

I've been looking into this and thought a thread on here would be useful for others who are thinking about building it.

ALM / Busy circuits released their older SID based module to the open source community a few years back and a few weeks ago they gave us the deluxe version.

The eagle brd files are available on github: https://github.com/busycircuits/alm012-sid-guts-deluxe

The module has an atmega644A chip doing the thinking and of course, a SID chip or equivalent doing the singing.

For the SID, we have a number of options, assuming the original chips are out of your budget
Swinsid: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SwinSID (I beleive this shipped with the module officially)
Armsid: https://retrocomp.cz/eshop
BackSID: https://store.backbit.io/product/backsid/
UltiSID / KungFuSID: https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77556
FPGASID: https://www.fpgasid.de/
SIDKick-Pico: https://github.com/frntc/SIDKick-pico

The SidKick-pico is probably the most accessable as it's open source and uses a Pi pico although I have no idea on compatibilty with sidguts at the moment.

I'm aiming to get the boards populated by jlc, although there are a couple of ICs they dont have, the vast majority of the components are available.

I'll share any BOM / PNP files as soon as I have confirmed they're correct.

One issue I seem to be having is that the module is officially 19HP, but the main PCB seems to overshoot that by 2-3mm...

Anyone shed any light?

Statistics: Posted by Kelaifu — Fri May 24, 2024 11:42 am — Replies 0 — Views 52

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