Thanks to my friend Andry for the donation of a few Software on tape.

Thomson MO5/TO7/TO9:

• Histoire de France (M.P.S.)
• Pays du Monde (Infogrames)

Vtech Laser 310:

• DemostrationsBand (Vtech)

Dragon 32:

• Backgammon (Oasis Software)
• Invader Cube (Oasis Software)

Sharp MZ-700:

• Anthill Raider (Solo Software)
• Flipper 700 (Tecnomec)
• Advoka.
• Head Driver.
• Egg Bas.
• Account Management.
• Address Data.

Timex Sinclair 1000:

• Backgammon.

Radio Shack TRS-80:

• Some tapes of not original software.

Thanks to my friend Andry for the donation of some cartridges for Palladium Color & Bally Astrocade

Palladium Color:

• Game Cassette 606 (Tele-Bowling)
• Game Cassette 610 (Ballspiele)
• Game Cassette 607 (Schiebsport)
• Game Cassette 603 (Autorennen)
• Game Cassette 765 (Motoradrennen)

Bally Astrocade:

• Bally Basic (Astrovision 1981)

Thanks to my friend Andry for the donation of Atari Software.

Titles:

• Ghostbusters (Mastertronic) – Tape
• Universal Hero (Mastertronic) – Tape
• Jeff Minter revenge II (Mastertronic) – Tape
• SideWinder II (Mastertronic) – Tape
• Despatch Rider (Mastertronic) – Tape
• Milk Race (Mastertronic) – Tape
• Henry’s House (Mastertronic) – Tape
• Attack of the Mutant Camels (Mastertronic) – Tape
• 180 (Mastertronic) – Tape
• Suicide Mission (Arcadia) – Tape
• Star Riders (Atari) – Tape
• James Bond 007 The Living Daylights (Zeppelin Games) – Tape
• Chuckie Egg (ANF) – Tape
• Cavern Commander (Scorpio Games World) – Tape
• Side Winder (Zeppelin Games) – Tape
• Qyx (Thermonuclear Soft) – Tape
• Flip & Flop (Thermonuclear Soft) – Tape
• The Tail of Beta Lyrae (DataByte) – Tape
• Elektra Glide (Laser Load) – Tape
• Desmond’s Dungeon Find the key to riches (Creative Sparks) – Tape
• Voodoo Castle (Adventure International) – Tape
• Joy Pong (Lindasoft) – Disk
• JumpMania (Lindasoft) – Disk
• Trans Robots sul pianeta del teschio (Lindasoft) – Disk

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k (Toastrack) Repair

Defect:

• Garbage screen on bootup.

Repair:

• Replaced 7404 (74LS04)

Note:

• Missing one HEX Inverter between Pin 11 and 10.

Gallery of the repair:

Outrun New Year Music Demo for the Atari ST by Peter Jørgensen

The music has been converted by Peter Jørgensen aka. fedepede04 aka bionic nerd, using a special version of Project Ymer, that can exported its tracker scores to YMT files.

It’s a Pure YM2149 Sound, no Samples, no Sid, Synth Wave, or Phaser sounds.

Download: Outrun New Year Music Demo (844)

source: bitmania.de

Thanks to my friend Andry for donation a few things for Atari

Here the list:

• Modem Supra Corporation 300 AT
• Berliner Cilinder Video Digitizer Atari 520 ST
• Composite Video Switcher (Color/Mono)
• A unknown Interface with 3 x Potentiometers+ 2 x DIN IN/OUT + Cartridge Expansion Port (they have used the cartridge case of the Commodore 64 but the connector is Atari).
• A unknown Harddisk Interface for Atari.
• Two unknown cables with Floppy Drive Connections.

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Thanks my friend Andry for the donation of a few cartridge games for the Commodore VIC-20 that i have missed in the years.

Titles:

• Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom (Sega)
• Avenger (VIC-1901)
• Gorf (VIC-1923)
• Saragon II Chess (VIC-1919)
• Mission Impossible (VIC-1916)
• Slot (VIC-1904)
• Alien (VIC-1906)
• Speed Math / Bingo Math (VIC-1933)

Thanks to my friend Andry for donation some games cartridges.

Titles:

Radofin 1292/1392 – Acetronic MPU 1000 – Prinztronic Microprocessor – Audiosonic PP 1292

• Horse Racing (3012 HR) – Boxed
• Prizefight (3014 PF) – Boxed
• Air/Sea Attack (3005 AT) – Boxed
• Shooting Gallery (3006 SG) – Boxed
• Tank/Plane Battle (3004 TP) – Boxed
• Pro Sport 60 (3001 PS) – Boxed
• Circus (3013 CI) – Boxed

Palladium

• Tele-Bowling (Wipeout) – Tele-Cassette 606 – Boxed
• 10 Ball-Spiele – Tele-Cassette 610 – Boxed

Home Arcade – Leonardo GIG – Hanimex HMG2650 – Arcadia 2001

• Breakaway (#17) – Boxed
• Cat Trax (#24) – Boxed
• Grand SlamTennis – Loose

I have exhumed my old Macbook Core 2 Duo 13″ (late 2007) to install a Linux OS (Linux Mint) but before doing this work i wanted to give a nice internal cleaning and replacing the thermal paste of the cpu.

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Hoxs64 written by David Horrocks is a Commodore 64 emulator for Microsoft Windows 2K/XP/Vista/Seven (DirectX 9+)

The emulator substantially reproduces this legacy machine in minute detail.

Changelog:

• Fixed CPU opcodes SHS SHA SHY SHX ARR (decimal mode) to pass the VICE tests.
• Added SID noise write back behaviour.
• Corrected the SID master volume position to be after the SID filters. Was broken since v1.0.8.8.
• SID ring modulation fix.
• Corrected sector gaps when reading a D64.
• Adjusted 1541 drive motor spin down timing as required for Wonderland XIII by Censor Design.
• Fixed fault with save state / load state.
• Fixed fault with FDI save.
• Fixed Ultimax open address fetch.

Download:

• Hoxs64 64 bit v1.0.9.1 (807)
• Hoxs64 32 bit v1.0.9.1 (754)
• Hoxs64 Ansi Win98/2K v1.0.9.1 (720)

source: hoxs64.net

Commodore Floppy Disk Drive 1541 Repair (#1)

Defect:

• Motor runs continuously.
• Loading a Program or a Directory freeze the computer.
• Misaligned.

Repair:

• Replace 901229-05 (UB4)
• Replace 7414 (UA1)
• Head Alignment.

Gallery of the repair:

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Commodore Floppy Disk Drive 1541 Repair (#2)

Defect:

• Write Protect Problem.

Repair:

• A wire of the infrared LED was broken. The problem is remove the glue and the heat shrink tube around the LED.

Gallery of the repair:

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Commodore Floppy Disk Drive 1541 Not Repaired (#3/#4/#5)

Defect:

• Don’t read anything.

These Floppy Disk Drive have the Read Head interrupted. This seems to be the most common problem in the Mitsumi (Newtronics) drives.

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Commodore Floppy Disk Drive 1541 Repair (#6)

Defect:

• Loading a Program or a Directory freeze the computer.

Repair:

• Replace VIA 6522 (UC3)

Gallery of the repair:

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Commodore Floppy Disk Drive 1541 Repair (#7)

Defect:

• Loading a Program or a Directory freeze the computer.

Repair:

• Replace 7414 (UA1)

Gallery of the repair:

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Commodore Floppy Disk Drive 1541 Repair (#8)

Defect:

• Motor runs continuously.
• Loading a Program or a Directory freeze the computer.

Repair:

• Replace CPU 6502 (UC4)
• Replace 7414 (UA1)

Gallery of the repair:

Commodore 64 [ASSY 250407] Repair (#1)

Defect:

• Startup screen Scrambled/Garbage.

Repair:

• Replaced the IC socket of MOS 6569 (VIC-II) oxidized.

Gallery of the repair:

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Commodore 64 [ASSY 250407] Repair (#2)

Defect:

• Garbage Graphics.

Repair:

• Replaced MOS 6569 (VIC-II).

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Commodore VIC-20 [ASSY 250403] Repair

Defect:

• Black Screen.

Repair:

• Replaced MOS 6502 (UE10).

Gallery of the repair:

Amiga 600 (REV1.5) badly Distorted Clipped Saturated audio Repair

This Amiga 600 has suffered several months ago serious problems of the leakages capacitors.

The amiga has worked for a period and then the sound has stopped to working with the classic distorted/clipped audio defect.

I have replaced the usual LF374 SMD with a TL084C 100% compatible and everything has started to work perfectly.

Gallery of the repair:

Commodore Amiga 500 (ASSY 312510 REV.5) Repair

Defect:

• Black Screen.

Repair:

• Replaced a 74LS244 (U35)
• I have removed a rusty part of the pcb to see if the tracks are interrupted or in a bad state.

Note:

• This Amiga has already been repaired in years past, not from me.

Gallery of the repair:

This is another nice test cartridge can help a little bit the repairs, many thanks to the author of the DIAG264 software.

Gallery:

source: diag264 blog.tynemouthsoftware.co.uk