Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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This heavily expanded Atari Falcon 030 needed a recap, a clean, tidier wiring, a fix for its dead numeric keypad and a dead RTC chip. Mayhem ensues, but it ends up running Quake.
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A Dreamcast VMU from a real barn find, covered in animal muck. I strip, sanitise and polish it, fix the loose buzzer wire and see if it still works.
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The Atari 7800 deserved better controllers. I build a small adapter that lets you use a Sega Mega Drive pad on the 7800, then put it through some games.
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The ArcadeR from Retro Radionics brings arcade parts to retro home computer joysticks. I tear it down, look at how moddable it is, then play test it.
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The ElCheapoSD from BennVenn puts your Atari Lynx library on an SD card. I set it up, test games on a Lynx II and explain how to avoid bricking it.