Osgeld Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 I had a moment of insanity, and so I am blogging about it here on atariage I am taking a claimed as dead ebay 65XE from waffle house bathroom status to pimped out and restored, if you are interested you can see the full story here and this will be be a place to discuss outside the blog system here thanks for your interest day zero http://atariage.com/forums/blog/629/entry-14120-project-65xe-what-have-i-done/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted August 19, 2017 Share Posted August 19, 2017 Look at it this way - unless the board has been stripped down to a bare PCB, at least you got a good price on a bunch of chips, most of which are probably fine. I saw your pimped-out 400 — Looking forward to seeing how this comes along. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted August 19, 2017 Author Share Posted August 19, 2017 day zero unboxing and testing http://atariage.com/forums/blog/629/entry-14121-project-65xe-i-got-the-machine/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted August 28, 2017 Author Share Posted August 28, 2017 Project 65XE: A good scrubdown, retrobrite on the cheap, change power LED lens http://atariage.com/forums/blog/629/entry-14147-project-65xe-a-good-scrubdown-retrobrite-on-the-cheap-change-power-led-lens/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 removing chips in prep for sockets and mod pcb's, nothing exciting, but progress http://atariage.com/forums/blog/629/entry-14166-project-65xe-chip-removal/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Good write ups. Can I ask why you're socketing the PIA? Not a lot of mods that I know of require removing or replacing it. Just curious and looking to learn from others' experience here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted September 10, 2017 Author Share Posted September 10, 2017 (edited) this mod http://www.horus.com/~hias/atari/#sram512k is taking signals from the pia to work with a gal and interface with the SRAM to act as ram expansion and a optional ramdisk , maybe there's a better way maybe not I do know this works though Good write ups. Thanks, I probally get a bit wordy and scant on details, that's a side effect of working for hack a day lol Edited September 10, 2017 by Osgeld 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoestring Posted September 10, 2017 Share Posted September 10, 2017 Nice. Mine took a lot of work to fix and the label was destroyed but at least I have a fully working system that I can mod. I still need to retrobrite the keys a little more though. Can I ask why you're socketing the PIA? Not a lot of mods that I know of require removing or replacing it. I socketed the entire board also with high quality dual wipe sockets. It just makes future repairs and troubleshooting easier. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted September 19, 2017 Author Share Posted September 19, 2017 Got some goodies in today http://atariage.com/forums/blog/629/entry-14190-project-65xe-goodies/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted September 22, 2017 Author Share Posted September 22, 2017 Im going to cut you so bad .... http://atariage.com/forums/blog/629/entry-14198-project-65xe-i-cut-you-up-so-bad/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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