You're doing the right thing. And at least you've got an indoor hobby!

Hmm, I should have taken a photo of it before I started. Basically the pins were all bent inwards towards the centre. The pins themselves seem to be made from slightly thinner sheet metal than normal, too. I've bent them all up, but the problem with doing that is that it causes them to be slightly S...

Geez, those 6850s are next to impossible to get out with a manual solder sucker. Dunno if all STs are similar but all the pins on my donor board were folded down pretty much flat before soldering. If I ever manage to get mine out I'll probably have killed them from the heat exposure.

Changes (offsets given are for TOS1.4 UK, MD5 036c5ae4f885cbf62c9bed651c6c58a8): At 0xfc06e, in the level 4 autovector (VBL handler), bypass the mono monitor check: /* In colour modes: */ btst #7,%d1 /* Check mono detect */ - bnes lvl4_vec_nochange /* No mono monitor --> skip */ + bras lvl4_vec_noch...

Nearly tread on a brown snake on my way there last night, talk about a heart stopper :shock:, only about a 15 meter walk from the house to the shed along a concrete path, the thing was at the bottom of the house steps and was in no rush to get out of the way. :roll: Can you leave me some STs in you...

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Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:34 pm

great stuff!

Wasn't the wobble down to that clock issue from wayyyyy back ? I'm not at home for a couple of days so can't test mine out

Thanks Exxos! Yeah, I hope the wobble is just clock noise, at least we have a solution to that

Hi Danoo, nice to see another Strayan on here. Once we reach 51% we can stage a coup. I'm in Canberra.

I'm very jealous of your shed!

Great work @Smonson it works. Unfortunately I had a wobble on the video (not sure why - need to take a look) but you can see the effect here, all three resolutions without changing a cable. Awesome! :yay2: Thanks heaps for testing it! I'll go back over it tonight and relay my exact changes as I pro...

Normal ethanol is better at deactivating corona than isopropanol is. Any kind of soap is better than both, but don't go wasting your precious PCB cleaner on hand washing when a $3 bottle of methylated spirits will do the job perfectly! The WHO has a proper recipe: https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide...

I learned another interesting fact which has probably been altering my conclusions a bit. Under emulation in Hatari, the virtual shifter in RGB mode can be set to 0, 1, or 2 (and if it's 2, the screen is disabled so you can't see what's going on) but when it's set to use a mono monitor, it's read-on...