Just watched it, glad it didn't slip through the cracks :)

y'all better stop hitting like the second it gets to 666

Silhouetted people in front of a night lit wall that reads Anzac Peace Park. In the far distant dark night sky many red and green searchlights cast beams across the sky.

Red and green searchlight beams cast their light against a rainy night sky across a dark harbour

A hilltop view past foreground shrubs and a hint of a harbour townscape. Red and green searchlight beams cast their light against a rainy night sky across a misty dark harbour.

Rainy weekend away avoiding a cyclone and seeing a massive lightning installation spread out across the bay in Albany, Western Australia.

An Acorn 28-AKF40 CRT monitor sitting on a chair, displaying a RGB calibration pattern from the Amiga test kit.

... and now it's fine again. Apparently taking out components one by one, testing them, putting them back, eventually fixes the one thing that had sneaky bad solder.

There seems to be a real split between people who are ok with this and those who aren't (not just in game dev)

A motherboard out of an Acorn 28-AKF40 CRT monitor. A red circle has been drawn around a large transistor.

Oh no. I managed to make the Acorn monitor worse at some point. Possibly when fixing up any dry solder and cleaning the potentiometers, the horizontal scale circuit has gone bad somehow and its been a couple of days of me besting my head against a wall trying to understand it all.

#C64DevMachine Testing

I do love the look of the KU-14194HB boards. Shame they seem to have bad caps usually though.

Turrican splash screen displayed on an Acorn 28-AKF40 monitor.

Acorn 28-AKF40 monitor connected to my Amiga 500. This monitor only does rgb analogue via a D9 connector. It's basically a stripped back 1084S-P1 with no composite or chroma luma circuit. Had to make my own cable up which onviously meant making backwards to begin with.

All I've every really wanted, deep in my heart, for all of my adult life, is for politics to be boring.

A closeup of Commodore 64C computer focusedon the Commodore key, backlit by sunlight.

C64C, repaired, refurbed, and READY
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Commodore keycaps sitting on aluminium foil that should be white but appear a bit yellowed with gradients.

the shell and keycaps for a Commodore 64C, sitting in the sunshine on a white table.

A Commodre 64C sitting on a blue workbench.

Some more sunbrighting today.

Blank pieces of paper - once you remove all the pesky stickers.

A Commdore 250425 motherboard.

A series of traces with through hole pins sticking up. A hint of subtle corrosion can be seen near some pins.

Corroded green gunk looks to be dissolving a trace and covering the legs of an IC on a green and gold coloured morherboard.

a green and gold coloured C64C shortboard - 250469 Rev 4 motherboard.

Tales from the bench. 2 repairs today apparantly "not working"

The breadbin had an intermittent failure eventually narrowed down to a cold joint or micro fracture of the trace in the IRQ line.

The 64 C worked perfectly but not for much longer as some mystery corrosion was taking hold.

A space heater.

very nifty!

it's gorgeous isn't it?

InfeZtation amber phosphor edition.

A Commdore 1084 monitor displaying a colourful bitmap of yellow taxis in a night scene.

A Commdore 1084 monitor displaying a colourful bitmap of the band KISS on stage.

Testing out some crt monitors I got and this 1084 looks gorgeous.

A C128D displaying 80 column mode Basic on a commodore 1901 monitor

A C128D displaying a pixel art graphic in Chroma Luma mode on a commodore 1901 monitor

Aha, we have colour on the 1901. Traces were repaired and It's using a borrowed PAL module from another 1901 that has different problems (TBC).

Hoping when parts arrive the original module can come back to life and revive both monitors.

Here it is on my 128D in both 80 Column RGB and Chroma Luma

At least it seems that someone saved it from going in the bin. Hopefully they know enough to give it the best shot of powering up again one day.

A Commodore PET computer that is quite aged, dirty and rusty

A Commodore PET computer that is quite aged, dirty and rusty, the lid is open revealing a dusty motherboard as well as a manual.

I was very sad last week when I missed this free PET by about 10 minutes. It needs to live again!

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A PCB with scorched and blown resistors.

A PCB with a missing large trace that connects to thr ground plane

A PCB connected to a DB9 female port with several missing traces

A PCB with several bodge wires and a large missing trace.

Attempting a repair on a Commodore 1901 monitor - it work but only in greyscale. Pulling it apart today and it's looking like sombody plugged something bad into the rgbi connector in its past.

SECA does what Bentendon't

Is there anyone out there who’s good at the C64 versions of Cauldron & Cauldron II and wants to record some footage at 1080 for me?

I might be becoming an electronic old men. I got myself a carfull of 40 + year old computers and have been finding them far more interesting than anyhting built in the last 15 years.

A Commodore 1084 Video Monitor in the corner of a workbench - It is displaying the title screen for the game InfeZtation.

Quickly tested 3 of them. a 1901 would only display luma, one 1084 was not healthy at all and quickly got shut down, and this one seems to work fine and look pretty good.

2 tables in a warehouse stacked with CRT monitors.

A small sedan car filled with CRT monitors

A Commodore 1201 CRT monitor.

Well, I've gone from having zero Commodore CRT to now having about 6 of them, 3 x 1084S, 2 x 1901, and this adorable 1201. plus some random other CRTs I know nothing about yet

A tan whippet sleeps atop a blue dog bed on the floor, while a grey and white whippet sleeps above with its head over the edge of a couch.

...Saturdog? Yeah Im sure that sounds fine said out loud.