– Retrodrömmar
I recently bought three broken joysticks from Swedish eBay: A Tac-2, a Wico Command Control and a Wico Q Stick. All three joysticks had their cables cut at the base for some reason. In this post I will focus on repairing the Q Stick. The Qstick is a budget joystick created in China for the European market. It reminds about Suncom’s Tac-2 in design (a…
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In this post I will mount a Raspberry pi 3 in a Commodore64c. The purpose is to create an emulator environment for a variety of videogames and computers. When I ran the emulators for Commodore 64 and Amiga, I think the right “feeling” did not kick in due to lack of keyboard and the possibility to use old joysticks. For this build I choose to…
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I recently bought some broken joysticks (Tac-2, Wico Command Control, etc) at Swedish Ebay. Some of them had cut cables for some reason. So, after I’ve fixed them I want to make sure they work properly before I plug them into a real joystick port. A quick way to do this is by construct a joystick tester. The idea is rather simple: You connect the…
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In this post I aim to refurbish a poor Game & Watch Donkey Kong that has been severly mistreated by a former owner. The classic handheld game from Nintendo was bought on Swedish Ebay together with two broken Gameboys, of which one is repaired (we will cover this in a later post). Anyway, the below pictures show the state of Donkey Kong when we recieved…
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