Hi everyone,

I wanted to try this nice SID Player by Edu Arana with a very nice design.

Edu Arana used Bakisha opensource code for the SID (only Psid) player, the code also has my own little implementation for the Vu-Meter with three LEDs (thanks Edu for the note printed on the PCB).

I know the Bakisha SID Player fairly well, below you will find several Links of my blog where there are some experiments and implementations i did years ago.

I’m not going to dwell too much on the loyalty of this SID Player, which as i said i know well, all in all it works but we are far away light years from perfection, at least as i understand it, in fact i started another project that you all probably know: The Return of the Hybrid SID Player which in addition to an ‘almost’ perfect CPU emulation including Illegal Opcodes and uses the “Original” or “Clone” SIDs for playing music tracks and other nice and useful features.

The ‘plus’ version of the Edu SID Player differs from the previous one for the implementation of the bluetooth module which however is not supplied.

As you can see from the photos and video i have installed the BlueTooth module and the Battery to make it totally portable, the battery recharge is via USB like a mobile phone.

UPDATE:

I wrote this update because some things i wrote bothered someone.

With the phrase “I’m not going to dwell … it works well but …” i just wanted to say that the emulation of the SID, let’s talk about EMULATION, is not perfect, i’m a purist of SID songs, so for me a SID music plays perfectly only and only using the original chip, however for the price this player is sold it is perfect and also very nice!

Anyway you are always welcome to break my balls, i will always answer you.

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Link:

• Arananet RetroProducts:
  • https://www.arananet.net/pedidos/product/sidplayer-an-standalone-psid-player
• Bluetooth Module:
  • https://www.aliexpress.com/item/33058710334.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.304.7439194dMtIVVN
• Lithium Polymer battery 3.7v:
  • https://www.amazon.it/dp/B08215WQMQ
• Bakisha STM32 Sid Player:
  • https://github.com/Bakisha/STM32-SID-PLAYER
• STM32F40x SID Player by Bakisha with LCD and ARMSID:
  • https://www.nightfallcrew.com/03/01/2021/stm32f40x-sid-player-by-bakisha-with-lcd-and-armsid/
• STM32F407VET6 (168Mhz Arm MCUs) SID Player by Bakisha:
  • https://www.nightfallcrew.com/05/12/2020/stm32f407vet6-168mhz-arm-mcus-sid-player-by-bakisha/
• STM32F401CCU6 (Arm Cortex MCUs) SID Player by Bakisha:
  • https://www.nightfallcrew.com/23/11/2020/stm32-arm-cortex-mcus-sid-player-by-bakisha/
• The return of the Hybrid Sid Player:
  • https://www.nightfallcrew.com/tag/hybrid-sid-player/