Notices by root42 (root42@chaos.social)

@dansup @PixelFed okay! Looking forward to it. What’s the timeframe for re-allowing Insta imports? The peers I know who move over from there are eager to import stuff. Will there be some staggered process for migrating users or something?

@dansup @PixelFed when I compare Mastodon search and Pixelfed search, the latter seems very lacking. Is this due to the influx of users, or just not done yet? In other words: Mastodon returns much more and better results.
Also: profile updates in Pixelfed seem to not go through, like changing a profile pic and follows/followers.

@codewiz yeah I guess the regulator is borked. Ditch the old PSU, buy a round DIN socket for the Plus/4 and use a modern C64 PSU. Sad that the PSUs are all potted. Otherwise one could easily repair them.

@codewiz another candidate is a corroded power switch. Can lead to „no power“ symptoms.

@codewiz love it. Is it still alive? If not: check the CPU. If 8501R1, it’s most probably dead. The power brick is also dangerous. You can replace the square power jack on the plus/4 for a C64 one and use a modern C64 PSU.

One of the best homecomputer keyboards of the early 1980s.
#commodore #c64 #keyboard

New replacements arrived! Now more C64 can be brought back with sound!
#commodore #c64 #retrocomputing #armsid

The second machine that @eazy brought is a C64G with the typical 250469 shortboard. Usually these are very robust. However this one obviously doesn't work either.

It has a picture, but the screen is pretty garbled. It doesn't respond to key presses. Which leads me to believe that it might be ROM issue. This revision has only two ROMs. One character ROM and one combined BASIC / Kernal ROM.

Dead Test seems to be running, but is heavily garbled, which suggests the character ROM being damaged.

The Diag ROM also runs, but is equally garbled. I think it is the character ROM, which is dead. I think I have to solder a replacement one...

Alright, here goes "Wonderland" by Magnetic Scrolls. While arguably less famous than #infocom, their titles were quite highly regarded. They came with a fancy windowing system of their own. We start off playing Alice, accompanied by her sister on a meadow.
#retrogaming #commodore #amiga500 #interactivefiction

@nafmo Take a closer look: The font on the return key and seeral others is quite different.

@nafmo Check the Control key -- different labeling! I THINK the grey keycaps are new. They look quite different from anything I have seen so far. VERY interesting keyboard.

What kind of weird keyboard is this? And do you want to see a repair of this machine?
#commodore #c64

And what are you doing currently?

Waiting…

And there it is: the humble Sinclair ZX81. A 1KB, Z80 based machine from 1981. This particular one from 1982. It is in generally good condition, works, but keyboard is broken. The membrane is breaking to bits, as you can see. So a replacement membrane is on order. Also the image quality is terrible, this machine will get a composite mod.
#sinclair #zx81 #retrocomputing

@dosnostalgic Really? Gamecube?

@lanodan @jonty or maybe IEEE488 aka GPIB? Very similar.