Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128k (Toastrack) Repair
Defect:
- Garbage screen on bootup.
Repair:
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 (890)
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.
Gallery:
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.
Gallery:
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:
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:
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:
These Floppy Disk Drive have the Read Head interrupted. This seems to be the most common problem in the Mitsumi (Newtronics) drives.
Gallery:
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Commodore Floppy Disk Drive 1541 Repair (#6)
Defect:
- Loading a Program or a Directory freeze the computer.
Repair:
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:
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:
Repair:
- Replaced MOS 6569 (VIC-II).
Gallery of the repair:
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Commodore VIC-20 [ASSY 250403] Repair
Defect:
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:
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
Replacing the black case of the Ultimate II+ cartridge with a transparent one.
Gallery:
source: 1541ultimate.net
Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.
Titles:
- Fire Breath +
- Fire Breath +3D
- Fire Breath +
- Space Game Preview
- Commie UFO Attack +2
- Fire Breath +4HD
- Fight Run Preview
- Border Blast 3 [seuck]
- Basic Battleships
- Zap Fight 2 – Special Edition [seuck]
- Walker +7FD
- Memory (+Editor) +1TD
- Weasel +3MTD
- The Hunter [seuck]
- Super ACE 1942 [seuck]
- Main Ninja [seuck]
- C64 Maze Preview
- The Legend of the Amazon Women +5DG
- Casino Wheel 64
- Camel’s Back
- Planets of Death Preview
- Hack Attack 1.1
- 8-bit Civilizations – Demo
- Hack Attack 1.1
- 8-bit Civilizations Preview &D
- Roll On
- C64Maze &D
- Munchkin 64 Preview
- Pong Preview 2
- Inner Space Plant Attack +5HD
- Labman +3JTD
- Mastermind 2017
- Funky Fraktions
- C64Maze +JD
- Antarta [seuck]
- Gameboy Tetris
- Moonstone Preview V2 +D
- Snake Preview
- Mastermind 2017 +
- Pretzel Shop
- Donut Shop
- Trader!
- Basic Battleships
- Escape from London Preview
- Rescue at Rana +4D
- Mastermind 2017 +D
- Yatzy +D
- PETSCII-Poker 2016 +D
- Row Man Preview +
- Fort Django V1.1
- Fort Django V1.1 +
Download: All Games in One Archive (3872)
source: csdb.dk
This is the official demo party results from Datastorm 2017. See also the CSDB DATASTORM 2017 section for more informations.
C64 Demo:
- 1 Neon by Triad
- 2 The Shores of Reflection by SHAPE
- 3 The Last Hope by Atlantis
- 4 Zoo 2017 Invitation by Artline Designs, Extend, Triad
- 5 Göteborg Tower by Active
- 6 Surdataströmming 99% by Elysium
- 7 Dansa med DNS by Dinasours
C64 4K Intro:
- 1 Belong by Mahoney
- 2 NP Complete by Rabenauge
C64 Music:
- 1 Bait & Switch by Stinsen
- 2 Intertwined by Dane/Lft
- 3 I Just Had Hex on My Wavetable by Fegolhuzz
- 4 Savers by Zabutom
- 5 Smokish by Kristian Røstøen
- 6 Too Little Time by Qdor
- 7 Sculpting the Data by ZZAP69
C64 Graphics:
- 1 Rear View by ilesj
- 2 Spring Gate by Leon
- 3 Incarnations by Twoflower
- 4 Winter Girl by Hammerfist
- 5 Time to Waste by Malmix
- 6 Mononkel by hedning
- 7 A Dragon by Sharakmir
- 8 Monster in My Cookie Jar by OhLi
- 9 Vad är en riktig dator?
Mixed Graphics:
- 1 Grönsaksmördaren by Fatzone
- 2 Pollygon Wants a Crackfix by Divine Stylers
- 3 Treasure Trove by PETSCIIBerlin
- 4 Mr Roboto by Rabenauge
- 5 Norwegian Barbecue by Darklite, Hoaxers
- 6 Scrolling Kitchens by Silicon Limited
Productions released outside compos:
- Argentine Songbook Vol. 1 by PVM (Music Collection)
- Blackbird 1.0 (Tool)
- Jupiler Dance by Genesis Project (Music)
- Modular Sounds 5 by Artstate (Music Collection)
- Neon poster by Triad (Misc.)
- Ohnesorg by Triad (One-File Demo)
- Spring Gate by Resource/Chorus/Singular (Graphics)
- Suburbia Sprawling by Triad (Graphics)
- T.P.C.T.S. by Bonzai (One-File Demo)
Download: Datastorm 2017 Full Party Stuff (962)
source: datastorm.party
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