I have had this Commodore C64 in my possession for a while at this stage and it just sat there in the corner unused beyond making sure it powered up. Something about the colour always just bummed me out and I didn't want to use it. So the goal was to bring it back to...
I was tasked with getting my mates Blackstar Fly 3 portable amp going again. I was told he plugged the wrong power supply into it and it stopped working. It was a fairly straight forward process, the hardest part was actually dissembling it as all the cables were hot...
The coolest and yet slowest Mac of them all, the Color Classic. I had been after one of these for a while and then a friend was offering up a non working, but cosmetically good condition unit. I was told it had been attempted to be recapped but it did not come back to...
Another $50 grab, except this time it was 2x JVC PVM's and a little 9" Pelco PVM. All in unknown condition. Other than I was told the RGB one turned on but the colours were all awful and probably needed a recap. So, whats wrong with it? The first few things I noticed...
Another great score with the Sony 1440QM PVM. A 14" Scart/RGB CRT that is perfect for gaming, only problem is its a little bit unwell. Assessing the Condition For a $50 pickup its in better condition than I was expecting, It did not power on at first but I was told...
This Willem Eprom Programmer V4.5 build should have been an easy one but it turns out, when you have the wrong parts without knowing it, it turns into a much harder job. Building the unit Most of this build was fairly straight forward other than I had to swap the ZIFF...
This was an odd pickup where the machine had a cracked screen AND a dead SSD, so the only way to replace the SSD was to also replace the screen. Which I found out was not a very fun job. Ordering the screen I scored a new to me screen on Trademe for $10 and when it...
Starting DOS 6.22 image This was a very long running project that started off with a Direct Access 5 based DOS 6.22 image from my mate with a fairly stock install with some utilities and games loaded on it with a bunch of sound card drivers. This image was targeting a...
As with some of my other projects, these machines came from the vintage tech sale in Q1 2020 just before the first lockdown. The sale was absolutely massive ( a few photos below ) and there were bins upon bins of laptops, which at the time had been a big attraction...
This was a cool Trademe pickup that I had no idea what was wrong with it, all I knew was that it took full sized SNES carts and was handheld and I had to have it. When I got it, the screen was showing corrupt data and the USB charge port didn't work. [ngg...