Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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A mystery 8-bit parcel from Matt Marr: a fairly clean ZX Spectrum +3, a vintage tape player, a boxed Cheetah 125 and a big pile of games.
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A disc physically stuck in a fat PS3? Here’s the full strip down: case, Blu-ray drive, disc removal, and how to reset the drive mechanism so it goes back together.
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A review of a newly manufactured metal faceplate for rubber key ZX Spectrums from RWAP Software, compared with a scratched original and a good one.
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Corroded ALPS key contacts and a faulty 8-pin DIN cassette socket brought my Toshiba HX-10 MSX back from the dead.
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A free Freegle box of N64, PS1 and PS2 games opened live, with Conker’s Bad Fur Day and Banjo-Kazooie hiding among the dust.