Category: Commodore

The Amiga 500 has an external “brick” power supply. And while there have been variations over the years, most of them contain a large heavy […]

Amiga 500 “Power Light Comes On” repair: Part 2

This broken Amiga 500 I bought from eBay was described as “the power light comes on.” And indeed that description was accurate. Last time we […]

Teardown and Discovery. I bought a parts & spares Amiga 500 from eBay. It was described as “the power light comes on.” Sometimes that’s just […]

It’s Friday 8th April (at least it was at the time I originally wrote this) and the A500 Mini is finally released in the UK. […]

My 1571 disk drive throws some weird errors. In this series of three videos, I attempt to repair it… Very occasionally the drive works. Mostly […]

The MiniPET 40/80 is built, we plug it in, and . . . . nothing. It doesn’t work. There’s a short on the board in […]

The second part of this MiniPet 40/80 Make focuses on the keyboard and the ICs. The keyboard is a “chiclet” style affair, that’s very much […]

The first computer I owned was a Commodore 64. But before that, way before that (well okay, about three years before that), the first computer […]

Today we’re going to future proof my Commodore 128 from the attic. Or at least improve its chances of surviving the next 30-40 years in […]

My Commodore 128 from the attic had one small problem: no cables. Actually, two small problems: no cables and no software either. No wait, three […]