The flakey turned pin sockets are out, along with the soldered in GALPLA and the Kernal ROM.
New dual wipe sockets installed, and the average solder joints on the 74LS257 touched up.
GALPLA swapped out for the slim PLA. It's the same as the GALPLA just with one of the GALs mounted underneath. Thanks to@MyGeekyHobbyfor the design. And a side note for anyone making things designed to plug into an existing socket, PLEASE use round pin headers and not the chunky square headers - they are socket killers.
The reset button was removed and the hole covered up by a new power badge. And the reason for removing the Kernal? To put in a 4 Kernal switcher, which also doubles as a reset button - nice!
That's it for this machine at the moment. I need to get some more ARMSIDs and install my RF replacement V2 - coming soon (or available now for Patrons 😉)
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Update on the C64 from yesterday's livestream
The flakey turned pin sockets are out, along with the soldered in GALPLA and the Kernal ROM.
New dual wipe sockets installed, and the average solder joints on the 74LS257 touched up.
GALPLA swapped out for the slim PLA. It's the same as the GALPLA just with one of the GALs mounted underneath. Thanks to@MyGeekyHobbyfor the design. And a side note for anyone making things designed to plug into an existing socket, PLEASE use round pin headers and not the chunky square headers - they are socket killers.
The reset button was removed and the hole covered up by a new power badge. And the reason for removing the Kernal? To put in a 4 Kernal switcher, which also doubles as a reset button - nice!
That's it for this machine at the moment. I need to get some more ARMSIDs and install my RF replacement V2 - coming soon (or available now for Patrons 😉)
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