This Aussie Commodore 64 Repair began while I was driving my Delorean when I accidentally hit 88mph and ended up in the 1980’s. Whilst there I picked up a couple of classics. Then I woke up. Strange thing is I found these left on my workbench. A Hitachi CPT1473 and a Commodore 64 Australian edition. […]
Introduction There are many games which require at least 1Mb of chip ram. This became apparent when trying to play Kickoff 3 with only 512k After installing a 0.5Mb Ram expansion in the trap door the game still refused to work. Using the Kickstart Memory scan shows the expansion is detected as Slow ram. The […]
Atari 1020 Colour Printer Plotter Repair. This printer plotter is an Alps design which was reused for the Commodore 1520 plotter the MSX PRN-C41 and Oric MCP-40 amongst others. This Atari 1020 is another Ebay untested purchase so no surprise it didn’t work when I tested it. But thats ok as its more fun for […]
Arrived untested from Ebay. It looked fairly clean so I gave it a test on the Amiga and the dreaded high pitch whirring grinding sound suggested there was either rocks inside or the belt had perished plus the Amiga just repsonded with disk unreadable. So as is per usual from Ebay just replace “Untested” with […]
I spotted this on Facebook Marketplace and thought it would be a interesting restoration project. This Amiga 500 and Monitor Renovation writeup will be written as its done. So there are a few cosmetic issues especially on the rear of the monitor. The Purchase I had a power on test when picking this up. Boot […]
Commodore Amiga 500 Pistorm Boxed with 128Mb Ram 4Gb HDisk HDMI Completely renovated and fully tested. This particular Amiga has hidden talents sporting a pistorm accelerator with HDMI output. An excellent clean and tidy example with slight aging on the keys. Thanks to the pistorm, this Amiga is fast, blindingly fast with speeds in excess […]
