I bought an actual C64 off ebay a few years ago but haven't had a chance
to recap it. There's alot of residue and cleaning to do yet, and figure
out what else if wrong before I can plug it in.
If possible, use a new one,
You should
avoid the old power supply at all costs. If and when
it fails, it will usually take a lot of C64's chips
along with it.
On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 23:15:51 -0000 (UTC), kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) wrote:
You should
avoid the old power supply at all costs. If and when
it fails, it will usually take a lot of C64's chips
along with it.
Do you have any references for this? I mean, actual facts.
Have you ever seen an overvolting C64 PSU?
I suspect the issue is massively overhyped.
Do you have any references for this? I mean, actual facts.
Have you ever seen an overvolting C64 PSU?
Do you have any references for this? I mean, actual facts.
Have you ever seen an overvolting C64 PSU?
Robert Roland <fake@ddress.no> writes:
Do you have any references for this? I mean, actual facts.
Have you ever seen an overvolting C64 PSU?
I found one earlier this year -- an Ismet-made wedge PSU that came with
a breadbox C64. The output was approaching 5.2V at the C64 end of the
cable under load.
Does that actually matter though, is 5.2V high enough to cause damage to >anything?
Having dismantled it, the reason was that it uses a 7805 regulator with
a resistor divider to lift its ground reference pin a bit, and the
resistor values had drifted considerably.
On 2024-08-17, Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> wrote:
I bought an actual C64 off ebay a few years ago but haven't had a chance
to recap it. There's alot of residue and cleaning to do yet, and figure
out what else if wrong before I can plug it in.
Don't have the answer to your C64OS question, but there usually isn't a reason to recap a C64. Unless of course you actually see the caps
looking bad. One big thing to worry about is the original power supply.
If possible, use a new one, or one of those little adapters that combine
two modern power supplies.
ordered a few of each type from the BOM online. Didn't cost more than a
few dollars.
It's going to take a ton of work to restore it, then I need to get a
test rig to see if any of the chips need replacing, if any. I don't know
I have a growing interest in getting a C128.
Hi folks -
I've been really tempted to jump back into the CBM world after watching
a few demo vids of the c64 OS. Heard an interview on a podcast the other night and... Well, impressed the guy got a wikipedia app running on the
OS. I actually reached out to the developer asking why he stood up a
propxy to scrape wikipedia vs pulling the data with existing API's. He
simply didn't know about it.
Anyway, tangents aside, I'm considering a purchase of a C128 and would
like to know if the C64 OS supports 80 column mode or does the user have
to switch to C64 mode to make it work?
RIght now, my only access to CBM is on a Mini i purchased at gamestop
some time ago but it's finicky about the sort of image it'll load from a flash drive.
I bought an actual C64 off ebay a few years ago but haven't had a chance
to recap it. There's alot of residue and cleaning to do yet, and figure
out what else if wrong before I can plug it in.
Thanks.
Daniel
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