Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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A handy three-page reference to C64 and C128 disk commands, including DOS Wedge, Action Replay, JiffyDOS and IDE64. Free PDF download.
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I open up a scrapheap Spectrum +3 to find out what is rattling, find a loose Z80 with mashed pins, and try an ill-advised power on.
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Richard Round sends a broken ZX Spectrum +3, a sealed Atari Lynx game and a ThunderCats figure. The +3 may end up as a parts machine.
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A Samsung 40 inch LCD TV that just clicks and never turns on, fixed by spotting and replacing two worn 1000uF 25V capacitors on the power board, with ESR meter results.
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Replace an Amiga floppy drive with a Gotek. I show the FTDI adapter wiring, the reset trick that stops the flash loader hanging, and flashing Hervé Messinger’s Cortex firmware.