Post here everytime you get something new!

[SaviorX]

Just a thrift-shop kinda day (ie: payday )

mostly books and games, shame...but the vintage/retro gaming/computing has seemed to have dried up entirely... (given the age of things, estate sales are probably the way to go now... )
Games:

Mad Magazine Card Game (Parker, 1980)
Rubik's Magic Puzzle (Matchbox/Irwin, 1986)

Books:

Find Asterix (HC) (Hodder, 1998 ) (sort of an Asterix 'where's waldo')
Decide your Destiny #3 - Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Tethan Battle Adventure (Penguin, 2010)
FF#17 - Island of the Lizard King (Wizard, 2003 reprint)
Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Gamebook #1 - The Amazing Spider-man - City in Darkness (TSR, 1986)
CYOA #3 - Space and Beyond (Chooseco, 2005 reprint)
CYOA #138 - Dinosaur Island (Bantam, 1993)
CYOA #146 - Soccer Star (Bantam, 1994)

plus a coupla those cheap dollar-store BluRay movies :laugh:

Fatherhood/Life with Mikey Double Feature
Hollywood Homicide/Hudson Hawk Double Feature

 

[iainjh]

Just been to Bas TheCorfiot.

came back with

Acorn Atom (fixed by bas, new sockets, fitted my atomMMC board, new rom, fitted and tuned in one of primes lovely colour cards, bbc rgb socket to the metal panel at rear. Welcome home baby!

BBC master and Bas's IDE controller and CF

Ok a few which were mine already::

My apple ii europlus, checking out the psu thats just let out the magic smoke. np, usual filter caps to replace.

My TRS-80 Model 4,. left the PSU with bas to check over; possibly a 12v issue to fix. Or another dead buffer IC like last time...

Apple ii GS, seeing if can swap the PSU over to 240v - cant, oh well.

Atari 1050 - bought from Bas

Showing off my PVM. yay

fixing my BBC B.

saw the amazing job hes done on his Dragons, coco SD and RGB stuff. he's quite the engineer. wow.

phew thats quite a lot for one day, thanks V much Bas

 

[sir_beaker]

Wait a minute - he's doing the same things with my Atom and BBC Master lol Great minds and all that As long as he didn't mix up our Atoms lol I don't mind if he did the Master as yours looks in better shape

Very nice collection

PS Could you mention my TG-16 recapping to him if you speak to him again - I am sure it's been a week since I last reminded him

 

[Gatecrasher]

Nice lot there Iain. what to use first eh.....

 

[plazma]

Metcal soldering station and one stand. I got the other pieces already.

These will be used to fix C64 machines. I have over 20 in line for repair.

 

[Sardine]

@iainjh
hope you didn't break you toes tripping over my sx-64 its been there for over a year, i made the mistake in saying "when you get some spare time then take a look at my sx-64" which with all you guys might happen some time before 2020

just saving up atm for a few jobs myself my dragon 64 I want converting to dual coco / dragon with RGB and my cocosdc flashed (too scared do it myself) , fit my N64 with RGB mod i got from Australia, Spectrum 48k repair (black and white vertical bars)

 

[sweetlilmre]

Ooh a super busy week..

sx-64: thanks to soeter. Works nicely. Keyboard a bit patchy as we knew, will try to fix that in the next weeks. The sx-64 on the right
View attachment 100452

Also got an SX-64 and it had similar key issues.
Cleaned it up very carefully (use isopropyl and some q-tips and clean each contact point very lightly) and it's 100% now.

Found another keyboard for spares so will have both latches in good order shortly.

-(e)

 

[sir_beaker]

@iainjh
hope you didn't break you toes tripping over my sx-64 its been there for over a year, i made the mistake in saying "when you get some spare time then take a look at my sx-64" which with all you guys might happen some time before 2020

Don't feel bad - Bas has a few of my bits for around that length of time if not longer (I think). Everything in its own time

 

[iainjh]

yeah I seem to save up 6 months worth at a time, while this lot should fill up my play time til winter 2016 I've left one or two things on his list!

he is a busy chap. I did try to get out of the way fairly quickly

sardine, is TheCorfiot fixing your keyboard?

Love my sx-64. Mine had a broken connection for joystick port 1, I fixed that (bad cable), the sid is half dead (I'll drop in a swinsid) and while my keyboard loosened up a touch I will need to do the isopropanol alcohol clean myself, just like you did sweetlimre. Was it hard to do? hours and hours? is the membrane as fragile as I fear it will be?

 

[Sardine]

i think i will be doing my keyboard as it will take a lot of bas time.. (would like him to do it but he is a busy chap)

he is replacing my sid chip which i got from Amibay, seeing if it can be converted to PAL (its NTSC) I will keep the PSU 110v and see why it randomly crashes. if its too much of a task (money vs time) it will be scrapped for parts.

 

[sweetlilmre]

yeah I seem to save up 6 months worth at a time, while this lot should fill up my play time til winter 2016 I've left one or two things on his list!

he is a busy chap. I did try to get out of the way fairly quickly

sardine, is TheCorfiot fixing your keyboard?

Love my sx-64. Mine had a broken connection for joystick port 1, I fixed that (bad cable), the sid is half dead (I'll drop in a swinsid) and while my keyboard loosened up a touch I will need to do the isopropanol alcohol clean myself, just like you did sweetlimre. Was it hard to do? hours and hours? is the membrane as fragile as I fear it will be?

Hi,

Wasn't too hard, the trick is just to go very. very slowly when you are pulling the membrane up off of the circuit board.

My tips:

1. When removing the keys, make sure you don't loose any of the tiny springs in the middle. If you do, the key will no longer work.
2. Go slowly on the membrane. It will be stuck on both sides of where the key clips on. If you pull too hard it will tear. Lift gently from each side until it releases. Work around the membrane from each edge so that it lifts evenly.

-(e)

- - - Updated - - -

i think i will be doing my keyboard as it will take a lot of bas time.. (would like him to do it but he is a busy chap)

he is replacing my sid chip which i got from Amibay, seeing if it can be converted to PAL (its NTSC) I will keep the PSU 110v and see why it randomly crashes. if its too much of a task (money vs time) it will be scrapped for parts.

If you ever decide to scrap it, please can I have dibs on some parts?

 

[sweetlilmre]

Almost finished putting this together. C64 reloaded motherboard and transparent case from the kickstarter with the 3D printed keyboard standoffs from COREi64 (available on this forum).

-(e)

 

[iainjh]

thx for info. appreciated.

The C64 looks shiny! clear! Looks good

 

[mrr19121970]

You need that aluminium cade badge now

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[RuneRider]

Couldn't help myself on this one.

If you found an original and immaculate copy of Lemmings you'd likely buy it as well... especially if it was unbelievably cheap.

 

[plazma]

Touch Point for Commodore 64. Just have to make a new pen and find a Finger Painter cartridge.

 

[Bryce]

There are some really nice pens that were made for the PSION and some ebook readers that would work fine with this and are probably very cheap on the other bay.

Bryce.

 

[plazma]

Compact ZIF sockets for a dual SID modification.

 

[rootboy]

Compact ZIF sockets for a dual SID modification.

Nice! Where did you find them?

 

[jack-3d]