Atari 2600 Jnr #2 (pt3 – colour resistor & AV jacks)
With the basic console working – I guessed the colour fix was likely to be[…]
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Category: Retro Computers
Projects related to 80’s / 90’s retro computers
Atari 2600 Jnr #2 (pt2 – wash and composite mod)
In part 1, I mostly ignored this console as I honestly believed that it was[…]
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Atari 2600 Jnr #2 (pt1 – Testing & joysticks)
Retro gamers will know that all joysticks are not the same; different consoles use different[…]
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Atari 2600 Jnr #1 (Pt 2 – composite mod)
In part 1 I cleaned and repaired my Atari 2600 Jnr; the result looked really[…]
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C64 with Flickering Video
Having been a Spectrum owner back in the day I never experienced the C64, but[…]
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C64 Diagnostics Cards
Diagnostics cards are an essential weapon in the retro fixers toolkit. I have quite a[…]
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Naked Spectrum
While fixing previous spectrums I bought a cheap motherboard in poor condition to use for[…]
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Building a Dandanator mini
The Dandanator mini is an expansion card for the ZX Spectrum that enables fast ROM/game[…]
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2114 SRAM Tester
On the 40th Anniversary of the ZX81, I retrieved mine from the shelf in my[…]
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Z80 Processor tester
The Z80 processor is a classic microprocessor. Originally designed in the 1970’s variants are still[…]
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