Wonderful news. I held off on the first lot of 5 or so to let others get in quick, but with the ping I've now ordered mine

That's not really in the spirit of things, we all come here to learn how to repair these machines, it usually isn't anything too difficult. Are your ROMS socketed (I think they should be?) have you tried taking them out, putting contact cleaner in the sockets and re-seating? Have you removed the RA...

Wonderfully good! I'm looking forward to getting my board through a full boot cycle for the first time :D Yes, when you get this running we need to see your favourite game demoed :) Took me a while to get this board back onto my hobby bench and powered up. But: we're good. With infinite thanks to I...

Consider me interested.

Younger me was a horrible cynic. This came on in my teenage years and lingered for a looong time into my late 20s/early 30s. Although I was social and I had a great time at university, I'm surprised that some of the friends I had stuck around. I'm sure I drank too much, but then most of those people...

*bows deeply*

I am in your debt!

You can rewrite the URL from the base jpg to , which in some cases might increase your chances.

But in this case it doesn't help; imgur redirects to a 404 page, archive.org doesn't have it, and google hasn't heard of the link either.

Wonderfully good! I'm looking forward to getting my board through a full boot cycle for the first time

Hobbies are supposed to be something to do for fun, something to enjoy and unwind. But it just isn't. Its just more stress and endless thousands of unpaid work hours. The whole thing is a uphill battle these days regardless of how I look at things. Yes, hobbies are supposed to be fun. Also, it prob...

Amazing work. Going to these lengths would have been beyond me! Honestly interested in how far off-piste some parts are on mine. Re the intermittent clock signal, this one was waaaay on my backburner. Once in a very rare while I seemed to not get a good 16MHz out, but I couldn't reliably reproduce. ...