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Hi,
Looking for someone in UK to repair a 6 switch woody. Have done a google and come up blank, the only place I found had no parts available! The sixer just displays black screen. Have tried all obvious solutions, it needs an expert.
If anyone can help, please post or PM. I wouls really like to have it working.
All the best.
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That would be brilliant, much appreciated. Be nice to get it working again.
Should I PM you?
Best,
Chris
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Road Rash of the Gameboy Color is a stunner! Not the Ocean B/W GB release tho(and that only runs on original B/W GB harware, not color/advance or Player). Pretty rare tho I think, couldn't find a youtube vid.
Anyhow it's a goody, very close to Megadrive originals.
Best,
Chris
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We had ONE 4016 at school in 1981, that and 4 Sinclair ZX 81's. The 4016 always made me think of Blake's 7 and other really futuristic stuff! We had a few programs on tape in BASIC(I thought it was MAGIC, there was an invaders game with only one invader!!, but back then it was very neat). Later we had a few Research Machines 380Z machines with 8 inch drives, the PET always looked cooler tho. A friend got a Vic 20 that christmas and we copied the tapes from the school PET, always wanted a Vic. Might look on ebay later TBH.
Best,
Chris
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Been out here in UK in news agent's since late last year. It's a compilation of older articles from retro gamer magazine. I'ts Ok but has a lot of typo's and at one point a chunk of repeated text(at least in hard-copy). Some of the interviews are great, but there are some inaccuracy's with the editorial stuff. Nice for the coffee table though.
Best,
Chris
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I'm not 100% sure if they are, but if you wanna try it, shoot me a PM.
Thanks shadow, bit of research and it seems the NTSC & PAL tia's have different pin-outs sadly.
If anyone has a spare PAL tia, I would be most grateful, probably could find something neat to trade.
All the best,
Chris
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Thanks shadow460.
Checked the VRM with a meter, it's as it should be. Looks like it's the TIA at fault.
Are PAL & NTSC TIA's the same?
If so I could use that TIA you have spare.
Best,
Chris
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If I remember this right, then there is an adjustable coil in the RF modulator part of the PCB. You could try adjusting that.
Edit: did you try out the TIA chip of that console in a different, known working console?
Thanks, tried the modulator, only other console I have is Jnr, has soldered TIA so can't try change.
Looks like a bad 7805 voltage regulator. I'd start there as they are cheap to replace.
OK thanks, this looks simple enough to change, will try and track down part, no Radio Shack here anymore & CPC is long drive.
Best,
Chris
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Here's link to video of what's going on.
Best,
Chris
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Hi all,
my PAL light sixer is rather unwell. The machine runs games OK but the video output is all messed up. The picture is black and white, with color accasionally showing, as does the audio. The picture rolls then stabalizes. I have cleaned all the switches witch were pretty grotty along with the cart port and all seem good now. I'm using a known good power supply and RF cable, clean game carts etc(I also own a Jnr and 7800). Using the same CRT telly that is fine with the jnr and 7800. I have taken a video on my phone, will find somewhere to upload it ASAP and post a link, it's too big to upload here.
Any help much appreciated.
Best regards,
Chris
Oh right I'm in the UK so everything is PAL, console, TV carts etc.
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space Invaders (Playstation).
XG3 Extreme G Racing(Ps2).
Plants Vs. Zombies (Kindle fire/Andriod)
Yesterday:
Pokemon Blue(Gameboy).
ICO (PS2).
Pollen count(ios).
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Well you have to also send me and 8-bit, tape player, send them to England, Re-build the British Empire, OH an a 32" NTSC TV so I can use any of this stuff. Right nearly forgot and a lot of ale!
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some useful info for the original poster:
http://psxplanetcodes.tripod.com/repair.htm
I have done this to probably ten PS consoles in the last 5 years and had great sucess. I still use a 1002 model as a CD player so it gets heavy use and have another permanently set up for gaming. Doing the fix is better than buying another worn/thrashed unit.
Have a go you have nothing to lose!
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For the kids,
De Blob,
Dewy's Adventure,
Super paper mario,
Nights journey into dreams.
Spectrobe Origins.
For you,
Endless ocean 1 & 2
Rune factory frontier,
Dragon Quest swords,
Sakura wars,
No more heroes,
Red Steel.
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eBay Auction -- Item Number: 230555259899
Just look at the price, unbelivable!
eBay UK has gone mad anyway but this!!
Best,
Chris
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I have two 100% working fats(with cables and pads) & 1 that only reads blue disks(no not porn!). Whats are you offering? PM if interested.
Best,
Chris
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Wow I've been absent from the site(& the Internet) for a year or more now and now I'm back look what I find!! It's astonising to see all the incredible interest and work on Aquarius during my absence, amazing.
First I'd like to say thank you to Jaybird and all the others for the work & research they have put into the projects for this much maligned machine, I truly never thought that anything like this would happen, well done!
I will most certainly be purchasing a Aquaricart when they are available
One question, were seperate PAL & NTSC versions of the games released? I'm assuming your cart is running on NTSC machines as you are in the USA. I do have some US/NTSC carts that run happily on my UK/PAL machine so I assume I'll have no problems with the Aquaricart.
I truly hope this will be the catalyst for homebrew development in the future, despite the limited hardware I feel much more can be acieved with the little Aquarius.
I may be able to help with the cart shell issues also, a good friend and neighbour runs a design house locally with manufacturing capacity(they designed and built the case for Dr Stephen Hawkins computer among many other things). I will show him a cart and see if it may be viable.
All the best,
Chris
Thank you for the kind words! It's been a fun project to do, and I'm very much looking forward to having it finished and in Aquarius owners' hands.
I'm still working on gathering and formatting the extra content (I added some new background information to the Aquarius Chess trivia file just this morning, in fact). Transcribing all of the material from the manuals and other sources, breaking it up evenly and logically into screen-sized pages, and trying to reproduce the artwork in the manuals and within the games themselves is proving to be a more time-consuming process than I expected, but I think the end result is really going to look great. I sent my latest prototype to the-topdog earlier this week, so hopefully he'll share some of his impressions once he's had a chance to try it.
As far as I know, the software is the same for PAL and NTSC systems. I am indeed doing all my work on NTSC hardware, but the Aquaricart should work equally well with PAL systems (although I'd love to hear from anyone who discovers otherwise). I'm excited to hear that you might be able to help with the cartridge shells; as I mentioned earlier, the screw-based shell variety is the best for our purposes, so if new shells are to be made, that should be the starting point. If you don't have any samples of that type of shell handy, let me know and I'll gladly send you one.
Hi Jay,
I have given a screw fit cart to my friend this morning(caught him on the way to work wile I was scraping ice off my car!). As soon as I have some solid info I PM you the results.
Thanks again for all your hard work:)
Best,
Chris
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No cable. I don't have one either. I've looked somewhat but nothing serious. I suppose I should ask here for one
BTW That cassette deck is still going strong 25+ years later. Amazing. The actual "Aquarius datacorder" looks like a toy compared to this.
Thanks for the link to the cable pinout. I remember reading somewhere that the AQ was notorious for being picky about it's tape deck, is this true? I'm guessing that if it's cassette handling is a primative as the rest of the machine then it should not care just like the ZX Spectrum.
Best,
Chris
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also any one else noticed how fragile some of the AQ carts are? The plastic pins seem to break for a pastime on the later cart shells, I've just been packing out my carts with card to make the circuit board press forward and lineup. Hopefully I will get a good price offered for making the new shells, I have given an old style shell to the designer/manufacturer for a quote, these seem much more robust.
Best,
Chris
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My poor dad. He got bought a Radio Shack tape player (A data recorder!) for the AQ when it was new.. and there were never any programs or games available over here. The most use it saw was me goofing around with it as a child, and using it for my Supercharger in my Atari renaissance in the late 90s.
I use a Tandy/Radio shack tape deck for all my own systems inc the supercharger, they seem one of the most robust machines ever made, mines still going strong since 1982! Did your aquarius come with a tape data lead, i've never owned one and can't seem to find the pin outs. It looks just like a dragon/Co-Co cable but that does not work
pity as it would be nice to load all those cassette images from the emulator into the real machine.chris
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I like Earth Defense Force 2017 even though most people don't. It's like being in a 60's Japanese monster movie. It has everything you could ever want. Giant bugs, robots, alien spacecraft, and even a Godzilla knockoff! What's not to love?
it's a total classic, me and my son and also one of my staff have been through this game many times.
toho studios in video game format.
awesome
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Hi,
another Aquarius owner here, have mini-expander, 4K & 16K Ram packs and half a dzen games including Burgertime. Will add my serials when I get them out of storage.
Cheers!
Chris
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Hi All,
Back in March I bought a boxed Inty will a few games from a jumble sale, it was in superb condition and all works a treat, not having the 'net I was stuck with the 3 games I got with it(space war, soccer & auto race) so packed it away.
anyhow cutting to the chase in the box was a quantity of speare chips, controller parts etc all are in plastic bags with 'STORES' labels inserted with part no. etc.
What I have are:
3x T9001N microchips.
1x AY-3-8900 microchip.
2x BFG 1008 keyboard overlay/membranes.
1x controller cable.
1x power on/off switch.
2x controller discs with 4 of the gold mettalic round inserts.
1x compete controller & cable.
My guess is the previous owner worked in the Service Centre and aquired these as spare for later use.
Anyhow if anyone needs any of these items I'm up for trades on some Inty games to make the system worth owning, would particularly like a copy of Burgertime.
All the best,
Chris
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Wow I've been absent from the site(& the Internet) for a year or more now and now I'm back look what I find!! It's astonising to see all the incredible interest and work on Aquarius during my absence, amazing.
First I'd like to say thank you to Jaybird and all the others for the work & research they have put into the projects for this much maligned machine, I truly never thought that anything like this would happen, well done!
I will most certainly be purchasing a Aquaricart when they are available
One question, were seperate PAL & NTSC versions of the games released? I'm assuming your cart is running on NTSC machines as you are in the USA. I do have some US/NTSC carts that run happily on my UK/PAL machine so I assume I'll have no problems with the Aquaricart.
I truly hope this will be the catalyst for homebrew development in the future, despite the limited hardware I feel much more can be acieved with the little Aquarius.
I may be able to help with the cart shell issues also, a good friend and neighbour runs a design house locally with manufacturing capacity(they designed and built the case for Dr Stephen Hawkins computer among many other things). I will show him a cart and see if it may be viable.
All the best,
Chris
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