Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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The Amiga A600 from my house fire tried to boot, but its board was coated in greasy soot. My first ultrasonic cleaning attempt, from mixing the solution to the results.
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No original carts were harmed: a GX4000 cartridge from a community PCB, a 74112 in place of the ACID chip, a freshly burned EPROM and a label made from scratch.
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Join me as we upgrade and playtest our (now working) Tatung Einstein TC-01 Microcomputer. This fairly obscure British home computer launched in the summer…
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A new 3D printing station, a huge Creality CR-6 Max, and a belt tensioner snapped in transit. Creality had replacements here in about six working days.
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300 degrees, then two weeks in mouldy water. I plugged in the Amiga A600 board from my house fire expecting nothing, and it produced a picture.