As some people know, I’m a retro computers and gaming consoles collector, I like to restore them and make them useful , the technological limitations pushed the designers to adopt interesting solutions and is always surprising how many things I can learn from that
But this machine are delicate, and the parts are scarce or inexistent anymore simply because they are no more in production.
I have now , a good experience with various systems and I was wondering if someone was interested in a Retro Electronics Restoring Group , the idea is helping each other , share information and socialise with people who still loves electronics from the past !
I’ve got a NES, SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, Spectrum 128k, Amiga 500 and 2 x Activision Intellivisions knocking about somewhere in my garage. I had a flood in there last year and cannot remember if any of them were affected. When I eventually get round to fishing them out it’d be cool to see if they still work or can be salvaged.
I have several commodore 64s, and one 128D (sadly this is still in italy ) , usually, the first point of fail on the commodore is the PSU, is a 5V and 9v AC but the 5v is so cheaply made that , if you are lucky, it just died without making more damage
That sounds like my worst nightmare! you should definitely check them out for corrosion as soon as you can…
According to that link, it does have RF output, not composite (yellow connector) , you need a reasonable tv compatible with analog TV.
There is a possibility to modify it to get composite video out , the procedure is always similar, you grab the input to the RF converter and ignore the rest.
once you done that, you can feed it with 8v-9v , but you will have to workout the polarity inside and if is AC or DC
Had a A1200 myself. Sold it to a company that used a lot of Sennheiser wireless gear for west end theaters - the software for monitoring it only existed for the Amiga. This was in like 2002!
