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Do you have an oscilloscope? You can try to find out if the signal is inverted and / or multiplexed correctly, or if some chip is...

I cannot contribute much (don't even have a QL) but I recently found out about the SuperIO and thought about how it could be used with...

The garbage characters have more of the other characters though... does it still run through the diagnostics? It could be that you have...

Char ROM would not display complete characters as seen in the post with all the pictures. I would say something wrong with the RAM or...

If you check the C128 diagnostic instructions PDF...

Can you burn a diagnostic cart and post the results: https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/misc/c128diag/index.html

Replacing the LM733 didn't change anything. There's still some weird noisy output on TP5. I have no idea what could cause this. Any...

Good quality flux and braid make all the difference. Cheap braid is mostly useless on anything but single sided boards. For the bent...

Yes, they work with anything 286 and newer that puts out POST codes. I had one in a recent Asus mainboard (6th gen Intel) because I was...

Xylol is one such solvent. Or you can purchase a ready-made product, such as Rubber Renu.

Any details here? What's an example for a light solvent and how much do you dilute it? How do you apply it?

Like mentioned, I used FlashFloppy (https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy/wiki/Downloads) in its default configuration. The only non-ADF...

Do you use Flashfloppy? I never had to mess with HxC config with FF and emulating Amiga images. I could check it again when I get back...

Thanks for the update.. that's an interesting find. I'm still backlogged with other projects and things in life but since I don't want...

I have an 8280 which I restored years ago. Formatted capacity is 3946 blocks, so about a megabyte. One of the use cases of the 8280 was...