– Retrodrömmar
I recently bought an AMIGA CD32 from Swedish eBay. This console has been on my wanted list for quite some time. I never owned it as a child, but I have a very clear memory of playing the game “Microcosm” at a demo room in a store in the mid 1990s. The AMIGA CD32, released in 1993, was Commodore’s last stand to avoid bankruptcy, and…
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I recently acquired an untested Macintosh SE/30 from Swedish eBay. It was a promising project as the seller stated that the battery was removed without signs of leakage. These machines are infamous for being damaged by leaky batteries. When I booted the machine I was presented a bright screen with horizontal lines, no beeps or signs of any OS. Macintosh SE/30 recap The second thing…
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I bought an Atari 2600 junior recently and the unit came with a power supply (psu) that had a broken cable. A good opportunity to take a closer look at the PSU, which is the focus of this post! As mentioned, my PSU had a broken cable, near the cable strain relief, visible in the image below. Opening the PSU is a rather straight forward…
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This post describes how you fix screen flickering on your Nintendo DS Lite. The fix is relatively straight forward: If you experience flickering on one of your screens, you fix it by adjusting screws (potentiometers) in the battery compartment. For this procedure, all you need is a tiny Philips screwdriver. In the example below, I am fixing flickering of the lower screen. Step 1: Open…
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My recapped Game Gear had a problem with scraping sound when adjusting the volume with the volume control. There is a relatively straight forward way to fix that: replacing the volume control wheel. To do so, you need some basic soldering skills and tools. The volume control is a 10KA (log) Potentiometer. My potentiometer was a bit slimmer than the original, but that is not…
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This post is a collection of notes I made during the recap and repair of an Amiga 600 I bought on Swedish eBay. If nothing else, it contains a useful collection of links where I gained a lot of information on recapping and repairing the Amiga 600. The unit I bought looked to be in good condition, but suffered from a black screen according to…
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I recently acquired an old 14 inch CRT monitor from a local buyer. It works fine, but I noticed a small annoying scratch on the screen. I did some reading and found some anecdotical evidence of people being able to fix these kinds of dents using cerium oxide powder (used to polish glasses etc) and an electric polish machine (drill / dremel). So, I decided…
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An iPhone 7 I bought from Swedish eBay worked perfectly fine, except for some distortment on the camera lens as seen below. This are due to aging and / or damage to the lens and can only be fixed by replacing the camera. In this I will show how to replace the iPhone 7 rear camera. To follow this guide, you need some tools (included…
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In this post I will write some notes on the Hyundai P5000M series PC. I recently aqcuired a machine from Swedish eBay, and I have conducted a few restorations and repairs on the machine, which I will describe here. The reason why I bought this particular machine was that my father bought one of these in the Swedish home PC government program in the mid-1990s….
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In 2018, I made a video and a post where I repaired a TAC-2 joystick with a broken stick. This process was performed by using tire valve, a screw eye, and a newly crafted ball at the end of the stick. See: At the end of the post, I mentioned that we also created a stick with a chrome look during this process, by attaching…
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