Onslaught / Wrath Designs / Vandalism, bring to you the 60th issue of the Vandalism News.
Download: Vandalism News #60 (1131)
source: noname.c64.org/csdb
Memento is a new game for the Commodore Plus/4 (PAL) made by the group Assassins.
The program is written by Skoro, the graphics are from KiCHY and the music was made by Csabo. The game is a memory game and has 20 levels. The difficulty will increase with each level.
Download: Commodore Plus/4 Memento (1323)
source: plus4world.powweb.com
This is the official demo party results from Syntax 2013 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB Syntax 2013 section for more informations and download.
C64 Demo:
WiLD Demo:
C64 Music:
C64 Graphics:
Download: Syntax 2013 full Party stuff (1118)
source: noname.c64.org/csdb/
Autopsy:
from Wikipedia homepage:
The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979. Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600. The word intellivision is a portmanteau of “intelligent television”. Over 3 million Intellivision units were sold and a total of 125 games were released for the console.
In 2009, video game website IGN named the Intellivision the No. 14 greatest video game console of all time. It became Mattel’s first video game console, though it was their only console until the release of the HyperScan in 2006.
The Intellivision was developed by Mattel Electronics, a subsidiary of Mattel formed expressly for the development of electronic games. The console was test marketed in Fresno, California, in 1979 with a total of four games available, and was released nationwide in 1980 with a price tag of US$299 and a pack-in game: Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack. Though not the first system to challenge Atari, it was the first to pose a serious threat to Atari’s dominance. A series of advertisements featuring George Plimpton were produced, that demonstrated the superiority of the Intellivision’s graphics and sound to those of the Atari 2600, using side-by-side game comparisons.
Mattel Intellivision SECAM Motherboard:
source: wikipedia
Autopsy:
This Floppy Drive VIC-1541 (brown label with white case) unlike the known model of VIC-1541 uses a drive mechanism of Newtronics/Mitsumi White and not the usual ALPS brown.
The drive mechanism probably was replaced over the time but i have published the photos anyway.
from Wikipedia homepage:
The Commodore 1541 (also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541) is a floppy disk drive (FDD) which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore’s most popular home computer. The best-known FDD for the C64, the 1541 was a single-sided 170 kilobyte drive for 5¼” disks. The 1541 followed the previous Commodore 1540 (meant for the VIC-20).
The disk drive used Group Code Recording (GCR) and contained a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, doubling as a disk controller and on-board disk operating system processor. The number of sectors per track varied from 17 to 21 (an early implementation of Zone Bit Recording). The drive’s built-in disk operating system was CBM DOS 2.6.
source: wikipedia
This gallery shows some stages of the repair of the Sinclair Spectrum 48k.
Defects found on the Sinclair Spectrum #1:
Components replaced:
Defects found on the Sinclair Spectrum #2:
Components replaced:
Defects found on the Sinclair Spectrum #3:
Calibration:
Defects found on the Sinclair Spectrum #4:
Components replaced:
Defects found on the Sinclair Spectrum #5:
Components replaced:
The bad way used some years ago was cut the pin 8 of the all 4116 ram to isolate the bad one, in this case, i didn’t cut the pins of the ram, but i have cut the track of 12v which is part of all the 4116 ram, doing so, the transistor ZTX650(651) doesn’t explode.
At this point there is a short in one or more RAM between +12 and 0v. I have measured the absorption where i have cut the track and it absorbs too much.
I just have to unsolder the pin 8 of the 4116 ram and trying to isolate it for find which ram is short-circuited.
Defects found on the Sinclair Spectrum #6:
Components replaced:
Sinclair Spectrum Faulty / AutoLoad Video:
This is the official demo party results from ZOO 2013 (Top 3 Entries only). See also the CSDB ZOO 2013 section for more informations and download.
C64 Demo:
C64 Music:
C64 Graphics:
C64 Basic Demo:
C64 Disk Cover:
Mixed Graphics:
Download: ZOO 2013 full Party stuff (1078)
source: noname.c64.org/csdb/
Autopsy:
How you can see from the gallery i had to remove the scotch tape that has been glued on the keys, the scotch tape with the long time has dried and detached, now the keyboard is perfect.
The Peters WS128 Home Computer is a Russian Clone of a Sinclair Spectrum 128 but with the addition of some features.
The Company Peters, then Peters Plus Ltd. is a company of microelectronic and computer founded in the year 1990 in St. Petersburg, known especially for the clone Sprinter.
Download: Spectrumpedia (1402)
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italian.
Gallery:
On the occasion of my birthday i have bought the Weller WS81 solder station that replaces my old station Weller WHS40 who has almost 13 years behind him.
The Weller WHS40 solder station was designed for a hobby use and was no longer suitable for my current use.
Small and Convenient retro-keychain.
This gallery shows some stages of repairing the Commodore PET 2001-8C
Two months have passed since i have received my Commodore PET 2001-8 Chicklet exchanged for a Sharp MZ-80K, was the day 28/08/2013.
The motherboard was in disastrous conditions, it took two months and a lot of patience to repair it.
Defect:
Replaced parts and various repairs:
A large number of short circuits visible and not visible (under the ic sockets)
I want to dwell on the ram, i noticed that the PET 2001-8 Chicklet does not digest very well all ram.
These ram don’t work properly for my PET 2001-8 Chicklet:
I had to buy several stocks of ram in 2114 to find the right ram that work correctly. The ram that work very well are the ELCAP 2114L-3.
I have to thank Andrea Pierdomenico for the ROM test on his PET 2001-8C and Alessandro Polito. for the exchange.
Autopsy:
This Commodore PET 2001 also includes the Expansion Memory ExpandaMem made by CompuThink
from Wikipedia homepage:
The Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) was a home/personal computer produced in 1977 by Commodore International. A top-seller in the Canadian and United States educational markets, it was Commodore’s first full-featured computer, and formed the basis for their entire 8-bit product line.
In the 1970s Commodore was one of many electronics companies selling calculators designed around Dallas-based Texas Instruments (TI) CPU chips. However, in 1975 TI increased the price of these components to the point where the chip set cost more than an entire TI calculator, and the industry that had built up around it was frozen out of the market.
Commodore responded to this by searching for a chip set they could purchase outright. They quickly found MOS Technology, who were in the process of bringing their 6502 microprocessor design to market, and with whom came Chuck Peddle’s KIM-1 design, a small computer kit based on the 6502. At Commodore, Peddle convinced Jack Tramiel that calculators were a dead-end. In September 1976 Peddle got a demonstration of Jobs and Wozniak’s Apple II prototype, when Jobs was offering to sell it to Commodore, but Commodore considered Jobs’ offer too expensive.
Tramiel demanded that Peddle, Bill Seiler, and John Feagans create a computer in time for the June 1977 Consumer Electronics Show, and gave them six months to do it. Tramiel’s son, Leonard, helped design the PETSCII graphic characters and acted as quality control. The result was the first all-in-one home computer, the PET, the first model of which was the PET 2001. Its 6502 processor controlled the screen, keyboard, cassette tape recorders and any peripherals connected to one of the computer’s several expansion ports. The PET 2001 included either 4 kB (2001-4) or 8 kB (2001-8) of 8-bit RAM, and was essentially a single-board computer with discrete logic driving a small built-in monochrome monitor with 40×25 character graphics, enclosed in a sheet metal case that reflected Commodore’s background as a manufacturer of office equipment. Designed on an appliance computer philosophy similar to the original Macintosh the machine also included a built-in Datassette for data storage located on the front of the case, which left little room for the keyboard.
The data transfer rate to cassette tape was 1500 baud, but the data was recorded to tape twice for safety, giving an effective rate of 750 baud. The computer’s main board carried four expansion ports: extra memory, a second cassette tape recorder interface, a parallel port (mainly used for disk drives and printers) and an IEEE-488 port (mainly used for modems).
The PET 2001 was announced at the Winter CES in January 1977 and the first 100 units were shipped later that year in October. However, the PET was back-ordered for months and to ease deliveries, early in 1978 Commodore decided to cancel the 4 kB version (also because the user would be left with barely 3 kB of RAM).
source: wikipedia
Again available for sale the interface C64SD v2.0 Infinity by Manosoft.
This gallery shows some stages of repairing the Commodore CBM 610.
Defects found on the Commodore CBM 610:
Components replaced:
I have passed three weeks of suffering for repairing this CBM 610. The finding of the fault is not has been easy, the key component of the failure was the IC 74S05 (U96) followed by the other components.
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