The conditions of this Commodore 8296 (TAN Case) are really bad. The CBM 8296 is left for over 25 years in a dovecote.

The cleaning, repairing and restoration have taken a very long time, but the result is more than acceptable.

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Defects:

• The Commodore 8296 was completely dead (Black screen of death).
• Little problems of CRT geometry.

Replaced parts:

• Replaced PLA U6 with a OTP EPROM 27C512R 70ns + Adapter
• Replaced the ROM 2 x 2764 Eprom with 1 x 27C128 Eprom (spare parts from a original cbm pcb)

Note:

I have replaced the original ROM (2 x EPROM) pcb because the PLA adapter is fat. I could insert a small castle (photo) between the ROM pcb and the Main Motherboard but in this time i have prefered to replace with a single Eprom.

Gallery of repair and cleaning:

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SNDH archive v4.3 released - 4107 SNDH files (total 7719 tunes)

Ever since the birth of the Atari ST, different chip music formats have had different ways to use them. If you are coding a chip music player for the Atari ST you would have to use dozens and dozens of special ways to replay music.

But in the mid 90′s, BDC of Aura crew became tired of this inelegant system and decided to fix the issue once and for all. He then created the ‘SNDH’ file format. SNDH is actually the original songfile and replaycode with a header bolted on top of the music and replayer. The header has a unified calling interface no matter what type of chip music is hidden beneath it, and it has extended datas about the music.

Download: SNDH Atari ST YM2149 Archive v4.3 (1451)

source: sndh.atari.org

Scene World is a C64 magazine on disk dedicated to various activities of bothC64 scenes.

“Both” means, that we are supplying information and texts of both scenes; NTSC and PAL.

Download: Commodore 64 DiskMagazine - Scene World #22 (1143)

source: sceneworld.org

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This product is GVP’s flagship SCSI controller.

This controller has room to mount, directly on the card, a 3.5″ SCSI hard drive as well as the capability to hold up to eight (8) megabytes of Fast RAM.

Download: GVP Impact A2000 Manual (1949)

source: amiga.resource.cx

I thank Fabio Bovelacci (Frater Sinister) for the donation.

Donated item:

• Commodore Amiga 500 with PSU, Mouse, Manual.
• GVP HC+8 Series II for Amiga 2000/3000/4000.
• Compatible 512k Memory Expansion for Commodore Amiga 500
• Psion Organiser II with Serial Cable.
• Sharp – EL-6200 Organiser
• Motorola FPU 68882RC50 50MHZ

Autopsy:

The JD-560 and JD -562 are a series of Floppy disk drives that can be connected externally of the computer.

They are completely applicable to IBM PC/XT/AT/386/486 compatible computers and need no any special interface cards.

Payed €12,50 a piece, that is the right price.

Practically, the price of a good pizza and a glass of water ;-D

This is a Commodore CBM 8296-D Motherboard repaired for a Friend.

Gallery of the repair:

Defect:

• Black screen of death without startup beep and after replacing U5 and U6 black screen of death with startup beep.

Replaced parts:

• Replaced PLA U5 with a original PLA MOS 324745-01.
• Replaced PLA U6 with a OTP EPROM 27C512R 70ns + Adapter
• Replaced a dual FlipFlop 74LS74 UD4.

* The replacement of the two PLA has already been made earlier by my friend.

The conditions of this Commodore 8032-SK (Gold Label) are really bad. The CBM 8032-SK is left for over 25 years in a dovecote.

The cleaning, repairing and restoration have taken a very long time, but the result is more than acceptable.

Defects:

• The Commodore 8032-SK was completely dead (Black screen of death).
• Little problems of CRT geometry.

Repair:

• Replaced the CPU 6502.
• Yoke calibration of the CRT

Gallery of repair and cleaning:

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The HxC Floppy Drive Emulator is a software and hardware system created by jfdn aka Jeff.

The aim of this project is to replace the floppy disk drive by an electronic device emulating the floppy disk drive (list of supported Computer/Hardware).

There are two differents emulators:

• A USB version which allows to connect the floppy disk drive interface of the computer to a PC via a USB cable.
• A SDCARD version which allows to emulate floppy disks which images are stored in a SDCARD.

Release notes for the HxCFloppyEmulator software v2.0.20.1:

• Disk Browser : AmigaDOS disk support added ! Amiga Files can be read/write/deleted with the Disk Browser !
• New Writer : XML files -> Disk layout can now be exported into XML !
• New Loader : XML files -> A disk can be generated from an XML file !
• Raw Loader : An XML file can now be used as disk layout !
• General : Low level sector reader and track display speed-optimized.
• MacOS X : Executable now compiled with the “-mmacosx-version-min=10.5″ option -> Leopard,Snow Leopard,Lion,Mountain Lion & Mavericks supported.

Download:

• HxCFloppyEmulator v2.0.20.1 (1190)

source: hxc2001.free.fr lotharek.pl

Some new games or tools (Cracked / Trained or Unrealeased) for Commodore 64 have been released from your favorites groups.

Titles:

• Invert (Final Edition) +7HF [pal/ntsc]
• Invert [Final Edition]
• Crazy Caverns +3H
• Vidball +3D
• Rolloverture +3D
• Othello +F [pal/ntsc]
• Vidball
• Rainbow Dragon 101% +11DX [pal/ntsc]
• Inertiania +
• Night Raid +2
• Re-Alienator +2
• Franz Falckenhaus Trident Crisis
• RGCD 16k Cart Compo 2013 Collection [EasyFlash]
• Tetris (Atari arcade conversion)
• The Search for Santa Clues
• 7dshoot preview +1
• Rent-a-Cop Reloaded Preview
• Helikopter Jagd 101% Jewel V1.1 +3H
• A.R.C.O.S.
• Flok +2
• Top Gun +1D
• Oil Defense
• RGCD 16k Cart Compo 2013 Collection 100% [EasyFlash]
• Tetris (DaCapo) +1H 100%
• Bubbled Ghost Preview

Download: All Games in One Archive (2935)

source: csdb.dk

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.

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This version of Coleco Vision SECAM (Péritel/Euroconnector) uses a PCB 91162 REV D which differs from the classical version with PCB 91209 because integrates an internal video encoder from Y (BY) (RY) to RGB which is separate from the motherboard.

This makes think that in theory all PAL versions that use the VDP 9929A with PCB 91162 REV D and RF output can be modified to have a RGB output signal by adding this external video encoder.

from Wikipedia homepage:

The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries’ second generation home video game console, which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered near-arcade-quality graphics and gaming style along with the means to expand the system’s basic hardware. Released with a catalog of 12 launch titles, with an additional 10 games announced for 1982, approximately 145 titles in total were published as ROM cartridges for the system between 1982 and 1984. River West Brands currently owns the ColecoVision brand name.

In 2009, IGN named the ColecoVision their 12th best video game console out of their list of 25, citing “its incredible accuracy in bringing current-generation arcade hits home.”

Coleco licensed Nintendo’s Donkey Kong as the official pack-in cartridge for all ColecoVision consoles, helping to boost the console’s popularity. By Christmas of 1982, Coleco had sold more than 500,000 units, in part on the strength of its bundled game. The ColecoVision’s main competitor was the arguably more advanced but less commercially successful Atari 5200.

The ColecoVision was distributed by CBS Electronics outside of North America, and was branded the CBS ColecoVision.

Sales quickly passed 1 million in early 1983, before the video game crash of 1983. By the beginning of 1984, quarterly sales of the ColecoVision had dramatically decreased.

Over the next 18 months, the Coleco company ramped down its video game division, ultimately withdrawing from the video game market by the end of the summer of 1985. The ColecoVision was officially discontinued by October 1985. Total sales of the ColecoVision are uncertain but were ultimately in excess of 2 million units, as sales had reached that number by the spring of 1984, while the console continued to sell modestly up until its discontinuation the following year.

In 1986, Bit Corporation produced a ColecoVision clone called the Dina, which was sold in the United States by Telegames as the Telegames Personal Arcade.

source: wikipedia

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The Intelli-Table is a round, plastic activity table with a blue, removable top that uses three interchangeable play rings to help children learn numbers, music, and games.

The curiosity of this device that was developed by Mattel in cooperation with Microsoft and distributed by Fisher Price in late 90s.

This game are been withdrawn from the market for construction problems, like say the Mattel Bulletin.

Video: