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Picked up what should be my last Gran Turismo collecting…so far;
Gran Turismo Concept 2002 Tokyo-Seoul - a more limited version of the Concept series.
Gran Turismo 4: Toyota Prius Trial - was given out by Toyota in Japan for those who showed interest in their Prius seemily. They eventually stopped when demand outstripped actual interest in the car.
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Always wanted a BBC Micro so took a punt on a non-working from eBay, also picked up a set of Rifa caps for the PSU and a SD Card interface.
Indeed a non-runner, took is all apart, cleaning up the case and main board. Nothing looked obviously wrong, so go about and worked on the PSU (yup, the main Rifa cap had already popped) and then had another look at the mainboard. Found one of the negative power connectors on the main board was lose. Soldered that and put the machine back together and…BAM! It lives!
Didn't have a chance to play with it yet, but my main aim - to play Elite 😁
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As all of the Zilog Z80 chips that interest me are getting discontinued in July after 48 years, I decided to stick an order in with Mouser to get 30 new ones. Its unlikely they will ever be hard to get, but I wanted a batch of new ones anyway for some future projects.
The 8Mhz Z84C0008PEG is what I was after.
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I had notions before Christmas when I saw this pop up - a compact A500+ compatible motherboard. Luckily I was given an A500+ mainboard many years ago by CiDeRmAn which I think he got as a lot from Olly(?).
So a large order to Digikey (and other suppliers) and many many hours later I've only got the board 80% done with the Amiga custom chips to be populated and a RAM SIMM to be built.
Will this whole thing work whenever I get back to it?! I reckon around a 20% chance! 😄
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Received my OLED mod kit for the GBC this morning and decided to install it at lunch.
Pics just don't do it justice, the OLED looks awesome and the mod/install was as easy as it gets. The screen is actually meant for a Blackberry Q10. As the OLED is also under the GBC logo you can select any colour you want, or leave it off. Simple touch screen interface to adjust the filters, position and other basic screen adjustments.
A word of warning though, the included buttons and D-pad are crap. So make sure to re-use the original ones from the donor GBC. Shell is quite decent itself, no complaints there.
Highly recommended:
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^^ Picked up this pretty mint Mega CD II recently. I've a real soft spot for the Mega CD, so this will compliment my other tower of power. The only problem is, I kinda feel I need a second 32X now 🙄
^^ My terminal Atari-addiction continues. The 130XE is the last of the Atari 8bit Micros, before they pressed on with the 16bit ST range. The 130XE is very much ancient tech, dressed up as a baby-ST. I think the 800XL is the more desirable model, but having one already, I kinda felt I needed the XE too! The tape deck comes with it, though I can't see it being used much...ive other ideas for this one...
^^ Something something female K9's.... I'm delighted to be back in the Nomad club, it's a gorgeous handheld. This one has an issue with the DC jack, so I'll just reflow it or replace it if needs be. This one will likely find it's way onto an upgrade thread down the line...
^^ I really hadn't much interest in owning a GT until I repaired Quigs one....i was immediately sold on them then. I like to proclaim I'm not a big fan of handhelds, but my collection definitely makes a mockery of that stance at this stage. This one is working, but no screen working...so I've a cap kit here for it, and failing that, it'll also find it's way onto a repair/upgrade thread down the line too...
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