Builds & Mods
DIY retro builds and modifications: flash carts and multicarts, diagnostic cartridges, controller adapters, video and region mods, kits and PCBs built from scratch.
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A modern recreation of the Mikro-Plus interface that sank Mikro-Gen: built from a PCBWay board, foiled by tall sockets, then fixed and tested on a 48K Spectrum.
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A PAL Atari 7800 gets a Deluxe composite mod from The Future Was 8 Bit, a recap, a slot clean and a reversible power socket, with no cutting or drilling.
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An 80s style C64 tape piracy board: I build the Clonemaster V2 three-way Datasette splitter, blow a fuse with a rogue jumper, then successfully copy a tape.
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A full TZXDuino build from Zaxon’s kit, including the V1 board fix, Arduino IDE and library setup, the old bootloader gotcha, and loading games on a ZX Spectrum.
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A step by step build of Stephen Smith’s Romantic Robot Multiface 128 recreation for the ZX Spectrum, from bare PCB and EPROM programming to the NMI menu.