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Recently, a friend of mine asked for advice on modding his N64 to allow for hdmi output as he was using one of the cheap AV to hdmi adapters and not getting very good results. This gave me the opportunity to test out the Hispeedido N64 mod board. This mod comes with a nice ribbon […]

My latest eBay purchase was a Sinclair QL fully boxed with manual, power supply and a bunch of microdrive cartridges. This was again listed as not working so was expecting to do another repair. When it arrived my first test was to check the voltages coming from the power supply. Nothing seemed to be being […]

When I recieved this MSX2, I had concerns as it had certainly already had a reapair attempted on it. What if this person had tried everything and discovered that a custom chip had blown and it was unrepairable? Well, I decided to carry on regardless and work through the issue myself. To start off with […]

My next repair project is this Sony MSX2 computer. Purchased as not working (black screen). Unfortunately this machine has a bit more to its history than the eBay advert let on. Upon opening it I noticed that the problematic HIC1 board (The video out multiplexer that tends to suffer from corrosion on these machines) was […]

I’ve had this one for a few months now but forgot to add it to my list. Don’t really know too much about these yet, so will be fun having a play and seeing what I can get it to do. Apparently they were very popular with reporters and editors as it has a good […]

This one came of for a bargain price on one of the Facebook groups so I coulnd’t resist adding another Amstrad to the collection. I already have a CPC M4 board for this computer to allow loading software from SD Card and over Wi-Fi. Will definately be setting this one up and experimenting a bit […]

I recently purchased a cheap Atari 800XL which was listed as not working. I’ve been trying to find some broken computers as fixing them up and learning about how they work has started to become a big part of this hobby for me. So when I plugged in the computer and it sprang into life, […]

One of the computers I have setup on my new desk is the Yamaha CX5M MSX Computer. The only issue with that is the UK version of this machine only outputs a composite video signal and that is going to look terrible on an LCD monitor. After looking around the internet for bit, I came […]

Recently a BBC Master was listed on one of the Facebook Groups I am on. It was listed as not working for £75 so I decided to grab it and try and revive it. My assumption was that the issue was going to be the Rifa caps in the power supply. So after waiting for […]

After moving house, one of my first tasks was to sort out my new retro room. I have really enjoyed getting it all sorted, but for a while now I kept having one thought which I didn’t want to know the answer to, where the hell is my FunKey S!!!! All of my handhelds were […]

When I first started building my mini pinball cabinet, it was designed to be powered by the Steamdeck. This was mainly because I didn’t have a spare PC kicking around that could do the job. The Steamdeck has being doing the job, but it had one issue, the loading times! Because the pinball software runs […]

A while ago I purchased some UV overlays for the Vectrex. These overlays require a UV light source to make them glow. At the time when I purchased them, my 3D printer couldn’t handle the size of the Vectrex screen so I made a frame using multiple 3D printed parts and glued them together. I […]