Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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A £15 portable Grundig colour CRT with all its paperwork, tested as a retro gaming monitor with a Spectrum, a C64 and a 60Hz Mega Drive.
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Building PCBGeeks’ Arduino-based dual DRAM tester and putting a batch of remarked AliExpress 4116 and 4164 chips through it.
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BennVenn’s drop-in LCD kit for the Atari Lynx II replaces twelve soldered wires with a single ribbon cable. Here’s the full install, the optional brightness wire, and how the current draw compares.
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A pile of scrap Game Boy boards, a botched bivert mod and a torn ribbon cable. I undo the damage and rebuild it with a RetroSix IPS screen, clear shell and rechargeable battery pack.
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A dodgy cartridge bent the pins in this Atari Jaguar’s cartridge slot, a repair I was told was nine out of ten difficulty. I desolder the old slot pin by pin and fit a new Molex connector.