After four years of solid use my soldering iron tip finally refused to accept anymore soldering. The tip just wouldn’t accept any solder on it so I thought I would have a go and repairing it as a new one would cost money!!. I watched a couple of vids on electrolysis cleaning so decided to […]
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 […]
It was relatively cheap so I took a gamble on this Eaca EG-2000 Colour Genie Untested rare piece of retro history. Besides it was something very out of the ordinary. The EG-2000 was released back in 1982 the same year the Commodore 64 , Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Tangerine Oric-1 and Dragon 32 as well a […]
Took a gamble on this Atari 1050 drive sold as seen untested. I have a few Atari computers but no 5.25″ drive for them so it might well be a non working show piece to go with my other Atari’s. I never had one of these back in the day so was a complete rookie […]
While trying to get a Gotek working on this tired old beatup BBC model B, I realised why it wasn’t working. No DFS Rom was available on the boot screen. So I burned one and installed it in one of the spare slots but still no joy. I was wondering what was missing then remembered […]
Amiga 500 Boxed Pistorm 128Mb Ram 4Gb HDisk HDMI Completely rennovated and fully tested. This particular Amiga has hidden talents sporting a pistorm accelerator with HDMI output. An excellent clean and tidy example with no discoloration. Thanks to the pistorm, this Amiga is fast, blindingly fast with speeds in excess of an Amiga 4000. Very […]
This covers removal of the floppy drive and replacing it with a GOTEK USB drive. Additionally replacing the CMOS battery with a modern maintainable equivalent. Ensure you are wearing a antistatic wristband to prevent damage to the sensitive chips inside this machine. Unplug the machine from the mains. Turn the machine upside down and remove […]