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7月25日

SAM Coupé upgraded by Quazar

I just finished upgrading my SAM Coupé with all kinds of gizmos provided by Colin Piggot of Quazar. My old SAM which was an old model with ROM 1.0, only 256K of RAM and no internal disk drive is now absolutely state-of-the-art and ready to connect to the Internet via Colin's Trinity Ethernet interface! All in all, this SAM Coupé cost me quite a few work and money to get it up to speed:

  • Its case was initially so dirty that I had to take the computer apart and wash the plastic case in my shower
  • The keyboard was horribly yellowed, so I took it away, and replaced it with a brand new one I found on eBay
  • It came with no internal disk drive; I bought one from Quazar
  • It came with only 256K of RAM instead of the 512K necessary to run modern software; I found the RAM upgrade at Quazar
  • Its ROM version was 1.0, which is very old (the latest version is 3.0); I found a replacement chip guess where?

Next up: connecting it to my LAN!

Quazar Inside

7月23日

Testing some Commodore games

I have a few C64 disk games I'd like to sell on eBay. Of course I must make sure they all work fine before selling them! Great reason to be playing The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Mercenary, Winter Games, Eidolon, and a few others...
7月21日

JiffyDOS ROM images

Just in case anyone needs them, I have added a mirror of the JiffyDOS ROM images archive on my SkyDrive. This collection usually resides on Winslow's site, but it is currently down, and any way I think it's a good idea to have a couple mirrors.
7月17日

Talking about DSC01949

Today I received a nice brazilian ZX Spectrum clone!

Microdigital TK90X

7月14日

My first C64 mod

 Some pictures of my first C64 mod...

Paint it Black

7月11日

HardSID 4U

I just received my HardSID 4U today and it's beautiful! No time today to install the SID chips, but I have 4 x 8580's ready to jump in there!

HardSID 4U output ports

7月4日

Talking about SX-64 JiffyDOS welcome screen

 I spent some time tonight installing a couple JiffyDOS chips in my Commodore SX-64, and I took some pictures along the way. The installation is fairly simple, even though the SX-64 is pretty crowded. The performance improvement is impressive, and I love being able to just hit F1 to list a directory, instead of typing LOAD "$",8 and then LIST :-)

SX-64 JiffyDOS welcome screen