Recent content by bladepoint

That was on CT1 to get color back. There's still a little bit of banding on PAL with the LumaFix pots all the way ccw, but it's quite usable as is. You only really see it on large solid fields of colour.

Yes, I'm able to get colour with just the NTSC chip, as well as with the PAL. I've linked high res photos below. It's still a bit messy with flux, and I'm far from a professional at this. - - - Updated - - - 3/8 of a turn CCW on the trim cap/resistor did it. I've now got full color on PAL...

I haven't tried the capacitor swap yet. The instructions read like that fix was specific to the 250407 boards, and I couldn't find anything marked "C70" near the video circuit. I do have a C15 that looks promising, but I don't want to get too enthusiastic with the iron without confirmation. Is...

I had the same issue with a 250425 board, and swapping the probes to the bottom fixed the oscillation issues for me as well. Now I'm getting a weird black and white checkerboard effect with my NTSC chip. I know the chip is good, since it's the native chip, and I get an otherwise stable picture...

Hi all. My name's Ben, from just outside Toronto, Canada. I'm just getting into retro computing, with my first being a C64 I bought just over a month ago. I'm also hoping to get some old IBM compatibles once i get a little more space. I'm a software developer, and I have a bit of a thing for...