That’s a lot isn’t it! The Lynx is a really underrated system. With some modern, quality of life mods it is really playable. I really like it. Perhaps even prefer it to the Game Gear.
Another 8 bit system. There’s been a bit of a run of them recently. The Schneider CPC 464 is essentially the Amstrad CPC 464 used by most of Europe. Not very commonly seen in the
Something different this time, this is a Phonemark Load-It style datasette for the Commodore 64. It’s in a bit of a rough shape. A Datasette is just what Commodore like to call the data recorder.
A continuation of the Game Gear that was recapped last week. It’s not ideal doing this in two stages but it’s often the case with these. You can never really tell what state the original
This Spectrum came in having become a bit flaky. It was actually booting though, which gives a good indication that the lower RAM is OK. There are two banks of RAM in a 48k Spectrum.
Although essentially an Amstrad CPC 6128 and common in Europe, these are quite unusual to see in the UK. They differ mostly in styling, with the grey keys. The floppy drive in these is a
Game Gears will always need a recap unless they have already been done. They are one of the consoles that absolutely need it. They suffer from leakage, which causes corrosion. Left unchecked it can cause
This is a common symptom on the Vectrex. It can have many different causes but this one was one of the more unusual. When the Vectrex isn’t receiving an output from the logic board, you end up with a white dot. It’s important to turn it off if this happens to yours, or at least […]
This 3DO came in reported as just having stopped working. It was a recent purchase which worked initially and then stopped while being used. We’re having a really unpleasant heatwave at the moment so keeping
