Housing collections

[Richard]

In article <200512291526.59597.rtellason at blazenet.net>,
    "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net>  writes:

> On Wednesday 28 December 2005 05:48 pm, Richard wrote:
> > Then there are things like C=64s and VIC-20s which you can just
> > "sacrifice" to the crowd knowing that you can always pick up another
> > one for repairs.
> 
> I have lots of parts for those,  but know someone who is looking for SID 
> chips,  and I haven't been able to find any at all,  lately.  Anybody have 
> some they don't want?

Yeah, the SID chips are in demand all by themselves as people yank
them from machines in order to make their own synthesizers based
around the SIDs.  I think I even heard that you can't necessarily
create a fully equivalent clone of the chip as the sound will vary
from unit to unit slightly due to R/C drift in the chips!

Most people I know that want SID chips look for either a) cartridges
that had the SID integrated into it to support SID-based sound on
systems that didn't have a SID (VIC-20?), or literally yank them from
extant systems.

> > In that scenario I think the most fragile thing would be media, but if you
> > replace the floppy drives with faked interfaces into IDE/PC storage behind
> > the scenes, then that concern fades away as well.
> 
> Yeah,  but then you'd lose the sound effects.  :-)
 
Who says the faked interfaces can't have speakers and audio playback
of sound effects? :-)
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