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Looks impressive. Are you going to be selling kits?

You are welcome! :) It never ceases to amaze me how visually impressive such low resolution graphics can be when used well. I remember my O’level art teaching banging on about ‘capturing the impression’ when drawing etc. but my brain works on fine detail so I never really got that. I could do an ext...

Heres mine with my own custom sticker! Top stuff.

I had put this on eBay last night with the comment that I could replace the regulator and caps if the new owner wanted me to. It sold this afternoon and the new owner wanted me to. So I have replaced the regulator (the nut was extremely tight) and the caps and now it runs both fine. I guess it was t...

Thanks all. I have tried a modern PSU and it made no difference. I wanted to keep it as original as possible due to its condition so don’t really want to change the 7805 if possible. I was mostly curious as I have never had one before that didn’t work with the two expansions connected. I will check ...

This was tried both with the UK700 PSU that came with it and a good quality modern one.

The zeddy that came in the bundle with my Memotech keyboard is in lovely condition, produces a reasonable picture even on my full HD lcd screen and even has the till receipt stapled to the shop guarantee card. So rather than refurbish it I have just changed the keyboard membrane (which was beyond tr...

I guess the fact that the screen changes when switched on means it is trying to do something, otherwise it would just be salt and pepper (nice way of putting it :D ). Some of the early zeddys had a really dark output. I recently had a zeddy which switched on (had a later ULA) and only produced a whi...

An obvious one but have you turned the brightness up a lot in case it is just a really dark output?

Andy Rea wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 09, 2018 1:32 pm

Paul wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:53 am

They will be most probably for sale in Mahlerts 2019. Are you and Sirmorris coming?

great, even more incentive to shift my backside and get down on the list...

Andy

Will you be able to bring an extra one back?