Amazing SID Player Turns Hybrid

The Hybrid SID is a portable SID Player with an OLED LCD and a USB connector. It plays the most common variety of chiptunes, music written for playback on a SID chip and probably the biggest collection of SID music.

This prototype uses a real SID chip (6581/8580) for play music and a CUI32 PIC32MX Development Stick for the CPU (6510) Emulation. This is kind of a hybrid between an emulated and hardware SID Player. The CPU and CIA stuff runs emulated on a PIC32 and the sound is generated by a hardware SID chip.

The PIC32 that he used acts as USB host to the attached memory stick, where it contains all the sounds that were already converted from SID format from HVSC. While the SSD1308 OLED displays the file system, and the rotary encoder can be used to scroll up and down. Its screen content is rendered into a frame buffer in RAM and was transferred using DMA automatically. The switches in the upper-right side can use as to select between the emulated TinySID output of the PIC32 and the analog output of the SID chip. The final process of this project is putting a headphone amplifier board.

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