I have noticed this a lot over the past year, prices of parts in China are skyrocketing, but does anyone know why? As I am running out of chips in my store, I was looking to bulk buy as many general ones as I could afford to.. But the price seems to have literally doubled since a about a year ago, c...

This may be why I ended up reducing the RGB resistor values when sorting out my monitor cable. I took out the 3 diodes in the RGB lines, (ups the voltage).. now I have a proper image, but now to bright! :lol: IMG_3341.JPG So diodes technically not needed :P In light of what I said in the other thre...

Icky wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 12:01 pm

Now we just need a pic of your favourite game

Thing is, I can't see any of the cars. Its like the whole screen is like 50% darker than it should be. So I need to work out whats gone wrong there. Probably slight bias issue on the RGB drivers

Another thing the video suffers is when the floppy drive is accessed, it causes a momentary drop in voltage which you can see on the monitor as the white border dimming.. Of course a lot of this is down to the power supply.. Could actually be improved and I have done just that the test before in the...

sandord wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 11:28 am

What was it?

No 12V so TV didn't auto switch to scart

Now to solder the keyboard header in place

All hooked up but nothing happens at all

So will start checking out the clocks...

Icky wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 18, 2018 10:33 pm

that was a marathon sprint there Exxos

Yes, maximum speed zero quality Would have been quicker if I wasn't "documenting" it on here.. plus had to stop for food.. also had my hair cut.. all go tonight

Been playing with the Ultra Satan all day and the machine is running with no anomaly's. I've soft loaded TOS2.06 and every thing's good. Been doing a lot of copying so I have a good flash card for this machine. Gotten so brave to stick in my master to copy stuff off of.. :dualthumbup: Great we have...