Gordon Pimblott

Atari 2600 Jnr #2 (pt4 – key membrane)

If you have followed the previous three posts then you will know that I have been cleaning and fixing an[…]

With the basic console working – I guessed the colour fix was likely to be the variable resistor that fine-tunes[…]

In part 1, I mostly ignored this console as I honestly believed that it was not worth the trouble. It[…]

Retro gamers will know that all joysticks are not the same; different consoles use different pin-outs – despite having the[…]

In part 1 I cleaned and repaired my Atari 2600 Jnr; the result looked really good but it still needed[…]

Having been a Spectrum owner back in the day I never experienced the C64, but have watched numerous being fixed[…]

Diagnostics cards are an essential weapon in the retro fixers toolkit. I have quite a few different diagnostics cards for[…]

While fixing previous spectrums I bought a cheap motherboard in poor condition to use for spares. I knew it was[…]

The Dandanator mini is an expansion card for the ZX Spectrum that enables fast ROM/game loading from a pre-programmed EEPROM.[…]

On the 40th Anniversary of the ZX81, I retrieved mine from the shelf in my office and plugged it in[…]