I recently soldered in the exxos RTC without socket, isolated the shielding in that area with two layers of duct-tape (so a quite thin isolation) and still got a little print in the tape from the lower edge of the plus-spring of the battery-holder! :o It surely will get shorted without that tape. An...

It actually is possible to remove the cover as a whole.
At least if you desolder the chip before and put a screwdriver from the bottom between the cover and the chip.
(more 20MP hires-pics in my Flickr-album)

Hi, yes, RAM-extension to 1MB (which I did not built in myself), then TOS-eproms with switchable (left switch) TOS 1.0 and KAOS-TOS and six new sockets for them. Also a sound line-out with two cinch-connectors (STE-style ;) ) and stereo/mono switch. Not quite sure about the cinch-connector on the re...

Hi there, some words about me and my Atari- career . It began around 1981 with an 2600 ("light sixer") which I modified a year ago but (allthough very careful) unfortunatly broke it then. :( (no picture, sound as if fire-button is pressed all the time, even with no joystick connected!) Some pictures...