Recap
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A much loved Spectrum 128K toastrack gets its botched recap undone and a fresh set of capacitors. My desoldering station dies, a patron comes to the rescue, but the machine still isn’t fixed.
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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 NTSC Atari 7800 with RF only output and a rare power socket. I fit TFW8B’s Deluxe composite mod, swap in a standard barrel jack without cutting the case, recap it and test some games.
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Dead controller ports and a console that always asks for the date. I replace the Dreamcast’s one-shot controller fuse with a resettable polyswitch, fit a rechargeable battery holder, and swap the LED for fun.
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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.