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After repairing my PET 8096 I'm tackling this beast. A 8250 dual drive with a whopping 1Mb per disk capacity. Sadly it is dead as a dead thing.

Vic 20 Keyboard works great on the newly repaired Pet8096. SD2Pet work also so will try to get the 8250 drives working. Defender anyone?

Defender on Commodore PET 8096-SK Never thought I would see this on a Commodore PET but its really playable.

Finally after a few replacement ram and video chips the PET 8096-sk is working. Just need to make a new custom Edit rom to use the C64 keyboard. Today is a good day.

Commodore Pet 8096-SK Dead Repair - RetroNerd Commodore Pet 8096-SK Dead Repair.

Made an autofire for the DIY Joystick. Removes the loud button smashing but almost feels like cheating on Minestorm :)

Vectrex DIY Joystick autofire. Knocked an autofire circuit for the Vectrex joystick. Details available on retronerd.co.uk

Made a cart today for the . Allows connection to a pc via usb for transfer of carts or even homebrew development. Also has some very twinkly led's

Calibrated the screen by adjusting the magnetic coils on the tube neck. The screen is on its side and the camera didn't quite catch a fully drawn screen but the grid looks pretty square and full size..

Not sure whether to buzz fix the Vectrex or keep it as is. It's part of its charm so think I'll stick with it for now

Vectrex Very Dead Repair post finally has a good ending and the write up is available here.

Vectrex Very Dead Repair - RetroNerd Retronerd Retro computers. Parts, Repairs and projects for Commoore, Atari, Amstrad, Dragon, Sharp, Oric, Spectrum, Texas Instruments, Acorn