scottyau

This week my 1541 Ultimate arrived: This thing is nothing short of amazing.  Sure they are not super cheap - but they are awesome, and I can only imagine the man hours put into the design of this thing.  I like supporting people that have built stuff on their own in their spare time and have come up with something great.  I've only spent half an hour or so using the 1541U and it works exceptionally well.  I know there are other things it does - I'll need to spend more time getting to know it better.  So what did I load first with this thing?  Games of course!!!! Next on the list is the right adapter/cables so I can get some sound, and a joystick or two!

I got my hands on a Dell 2408wfp at the end of the week.  This guy has an S-Video input, so I could remove the S-Video - VGA converter I was using in the previous post.  I plugged it all in and flicked the switch: Much better! GO64: Not sure I will get it much better than this - open to suggestions though.  Now that I have a working setup I can start to look at what I might run/do with this thing, I've got a few ideas.  More to come!

tl;dr  It works!  Read on for detail. So I finally received enough bits to connect up the 128 and power it up and see if it works.  First up I needed a power supply, so I ordered one from Ray Carlsen.  Ray makes a replacement 64/128 power supply with new parts.  The design is available but as Ray mentions, sourcing all of the parts wouldn't have worked out much different to buying one from Ray.  He's a great guy who's been repairing Commodores for a long time.  Pretty impressed with the supply, and its good to know that I won't be troubleshooting any issues with the power supply side of things.  It is setup for 240v - but it still has an American plug on it.  I'm using an adapter for the moment, but once I have a setup i'm happy with i'll put an Australian plug on it: With the power side of things covered I needed to look to video out.  The 128 has three ports for video out, the round DIN connector, the RF connector and the ...