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r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nDQxb5yMEI

The glitching is kinda freaky, I've disassembled it and soaked the logic board in electronics cleaner, if it still doesn't work I'll go over it with a soldering iron and reflow the main chips but other than that I'm not sure what could be wrong

It has a MC6847 gpu and I think the vram is mostly OK, as far as I can tell the z80 CPU is stalled since it's normally supposed to beep when you press keys. I wish I had a logic analyzer or at least an oscilloscope to look for signs of life :(

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r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

My thinking is that the graphics chip is able to read video memory, at least partially since it is able to produce these garbled but stable displays

I replaced a couple capacitors and now it's trying to communicate


All the information I've found online complains about how hilariously cheaply made these things are, there's bodge wires going all over the place inside it

:lol: at this forum http://www.vz200.org/forum/index.php

r u ready to WALK fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Mar 15, 2017

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Killer Low Life posted:

Give up and buy a mac

OK I bought a Mac, now what

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2fPlit5Uc

I still think I need that scope

r u ready to WALK
Sep 29, 2001

Dongslayer. posted:

take it to the firing range

I would never! :smith:

Computers are our friends, we should help them when they're not feeling well!


Fatal Error posted:

get rid of all your computers and never look back

This sounds tempting though, my computer janitor job is getting outsourced to Bulgaria anyway

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