New diagnostic rom for the Retroleum fixes Spectrum
After the Retroleum test rom diagnosed the newly fitted ic15 as still the fault on the Spectrum practice board, I took it back to the Spectrum4Ever Facebook group and Mark Fixes stuff. Brendan Alford offered up his test rom available at https://github.com/brendanalford/zx-diagnostics to try in the Retroleum which looked like […]
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Whatever Is Wrong Now?
After a short hiatus today saw me back on the soldering iron with the practice Spectrum board. A quick recap, we did a recap (fitted new capacitors) and the power supply circuitry then used the Retroleum Smart card to diagnose a memory fault. After getting it fired up and displaying […]
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Review of Lightforce on Commodore 64
As we flicked idly through the games on my Commodore 64 my daughter picked up on the Lightforce title and decidedid that it may be another Star Wars game. One way to find out, we loaded it from the SD2IEC device and ran it. It wasn’t a Star Wars game […]
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Review of Star Wars on the C64
I was there when Star Wars first hit the cinemas in the UK, my mum took me and my brother to see it and I have been hooked on the Star Wars universe ever since. When the Star Wars game hit the arcades in my youth I had to play […]
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Commodore 64 Stuff
I recently got a good deal on a Commodore 64 setup to replace my one which has “issues” with loading. The new one works just fine, so I decided to treat it to some SD2IEC goodness from TheFutureWas8Bit.com and bought an SD2IEC and a Epyx Fastload Reloaded cartridge. Plugged in […]
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