Category: Hardware
Can a classic DB9 joystick be made work work through this Mayflash Mega Drive adapter?
Individual Computers are releasing the A512, a 512kByte trapdoor memory expansion for the A500 computer. This is not just another copy of a product that was available from lots of second-source manufacturers during the late 1980s and 1990s, but it is looking at the needs of all A500 owners today: 512k RAM Pass-through port for use in Amiga 500+ Space for…
Found some interesting News on Facebook this morning. The first MEGA65 Prototype PCBs have been made, and were tested at Revision 2017 Demo Party over Easter Weekend. Paul Gardner-Stephen has a blog called c65gs which shows photos of the new board, plus a small News write up regarding progress. Follow the link below. Many thanks to Regor Lediek for the…
Revision Party 2017 takes place from April 14th to 17th 2017 in Saarbrücken, Germany. As you can see the stream is live on twitch right now, get ready for lots of demo scene goodness. For those of you that don’t know, Revision is the world’s biggest pure Demoscene event with visitors from more than 30 countries turning up to show off…
The SD-BOX is a cartridge with an SD card interface for the Commodore 64. The cartridge has many functions for the disk drive and the Datassette. Recent updates: Improvements for the SID player (RSID, PSID, title, author and publisher), Datassette, disk-drive, cartridge restart and an update for the manual. Website: http://www.c64.com.pl Links: Source
With permission from the rights owner (Chip Gracey), the ISEPIC cartridge has been brought back to the world. The ISEPIC cartridge is the very first “freezer” cartridge to have been invented and brought to market back in the 80’s for the Commodore 64. This cartridge is similar in function to the “freeze” function of AR or Super Snapshot cartridges that…
Gideon has released a new firmware for the 1541U-II PLUS device 1541U-II PLUS V3.1 R474. Based on this markusC64 has build and released an unofficial firmware with extra functionality based on Gideon’s official release 3.1 R474, archive 1541U-II(+) 3.1 R475 compiled by me includes builds for the regular 1541U-II and the 1541U-II Plus, including update instructions. r474 | gideonz | 2017-03-21…
MindFlareRetro takes a look what he thought was a junk Commodore 64 to be scavenged for parts. Instead he decides to clean it up and tries bringing it back to life. Check out the video below. [youtube RSUjcupjCgk nolink] Website: mindflareretro.com Twitter: @MindFlareRetro
This video from iz8dwf shows part of the electronic troubleshooting and repair of a 1979 Commodore PET 3032, serial n. 1320067. Various defects found after all these years: defective ROMs, defective PIA 6520 and a defective MC3446 IEEE488 driver (found because it was running too hot). Two DRAM chips failed after about 2 hours of use. Some marginal IC sockets replaced…
Victor Lancing made a video about repairing a Commodore 64. The fault was a bad RAM chip. You can watch how he finds the bad chip, removes it, and puts in a new chip. Check out the video below. [youtube 1evDWDmH7yw nolink] Youtube: Victor Lancing
