Season's Greetings from TexElec.com!

We hope you like the Christmas SID Player, and thanks for supporting us!

This player is based on the STM32 Sid Player. Special Thanks to Bashika for making the Source available.

GitHub Link: https://github.com/Bakisha/STM32-SID-PLAYER

I would also like to think all of the great authors out there for the Christmas tunes! We picked out 20 we liked below, but you may add most any SID you like to the root directory of the SD card, and it should play. Files with digital samples are not supported, and some files may not playback correctly, or at full speed.
The emulation is certainly not exact, but it does make a good attempt.

Song List (All of these were sourced from the HVSC 75 SID Collection) Christmas_Time_is_Here - 2020 Eric Dobek
Christmas18 - by 2017 Censor Design
The Christmas Song - 1989 Pirates of Denver
Christmas_Terror - 1991 Rob Peters
The Electronic Christmas Card - 1985 Tim Cannell
Official Father Christmas Game - 1989 Alternative Software
White Christmas - 2007 Crypt (A-Man) Steven Diemer
A Christmas Song - Nantco Bakker - 1992
A Christmas Medley - Nantco Bakker - 1992
Christmas_1989_tune_2 = Yavuz Sukur 1989
GP Christmas - 2017 Michael Brzeski - Genesis Project
Christmas_boogie - Johan Samuelson - 2019
12 Days of Christmas - Warren Pilkington 1992
Mice's Christmas - Cris 2020 The Santas
Feliz Navidad - Jose Feliciano - 2017
Christmas_One - Unknown Author - 1987
Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Klegg & Miztluren - 2007
Merry Christmas 2017 - Nilsson & Miztluren - 2017
XMas Demo - Stian Gudbrandsen - 2020
Frosty The Snowman - Unknown Author - 198x?

Button Function: There are four capacitive touch sensors which serve as buttons on the Christmas SID. Three of them are on the main red board below the previous, next & play/pause buttons. The fourth button is on the center of the flame.

The follow functions are present in the code from the STM32 SID Player. I left them all in-tact, but items marked (*) below will have no function.

Taps Previous Play/Pause Next

1 play previous tune play / pause toggle play next tune 2 play previous file restart tune play next file 3 *play previous folder restart tune's time *play next folder 4 *play first folder of playlist *SID INFO *play last folder of playlist 5 *HELP *HELP *HELP hold Channel 1 OFF Channel 2 OFF Channel 3 OFF

We added the code for the fourth button on the flame to change the lighting modes.

Taps Light Control

1 Change Mantle Pattern/Off 2 Change Fire Pattern/Off 3 All off/on

Updated Code: We added some functionality to update the LEDs so I created a repository with the changes if you want to make modifications on your own.

Notes:

1. There is an adjustment for the capacitive sensors on the back. If issues are encountered registering pushes, try adjusting the sensitivity.
2. The flame may be removed from the board, and it will continue to operate correctly. It will also draw less power.
3. The lower you keep the volume, the longer the batteries will last.
4. If you add the optional DC power jack, do not supply more than 3.3V or damage may occur. Polarity is center positive. Cut BR1 if installed.
5. A few times during development, the board completely locked up. I have been trying to isolate why, but I have been unable to reproduce the problem with any consistency. It may be because the LED update routines are stealing too much CPU, but it's a hard lock so I do believe it is related to the original code in some way.
6. This board uses an STM32F401CCU6 CPU @ 84MHz. Approx 60.9k of RAM is free. The code loads each SID into memory before playing it, so this is the largest file which can be played, assuming it is supported.

Thanks, and have a great New Year! https://texelec.com