Retro Repair Blog and Articles
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My first video back after a break: a mystery package from Andy Brown with a PS2 and games, a PSP 1004 that won’t charge, a Mega Drive and a C64 game system cartridge.
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A sealed Taito 5-in-1 TV game arrived in a recent pickup, so I asked whether it should get an unboxing, review and maybe a teardown. The review followed.
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A kind donation from Scott Goodman: another Amstrad CPC464, hopefully with a working tape deck for my project machine, plus a possible wrong-PSU power fault to investigate.
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How to add an audio input jack to the Amstrad CPC464’s cassette amplifier circuit with two wires, then load CDT games from a PC using Tapir.
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A real example of a dry, cracked solder joint on an Amstrad CPC464 video socket: how to spot one, the faults it causes, and how to fix it with a soldering iron.