Modifying a C64DTV or two

[PhilC]

As usual when I meet up with fellow retro computer enthusiasts as I did on Sunday, we inevitably get on to the subject of wish lists and hardware projects.

This time the responsible forum member is @mrbombermillzy and the subject was turning a C64DTV into a fully fledged computer with keyboard. s-video etc etc.

So sat on my bench now is one C64DTV and a second one is in the post.

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These little devices can pretty much be turned into a C64 on steroids, with features like 256 colours and 2MB ram.

I’ll post on here as things progress.

[rubber_jonnie]

Hmm, interesting, I'll be following this one.

[HigashiJun]

Didn't even know that such a "thing" exist...

Looks interesting though, and seems to have a lot of mods available.

[PhilC]

Didn't even know that such a "thing" exist...

Looks interesting though, and seems to have a lot of mods available.

I didn't till @mrbombermillzy told me so, let alone all the mods.

[HigashiJun]

Have fun with this project !

[PhilC]

The first thing to do is the colour mod I think, as I've just started it up and ran Paradroid and the colours are a little wishy washy.

Here’s the before photo

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[mrbombermillzy]

@PhilC in the meantime, if you need any of the transfer/flash/etc software or any other bits, just let me know

[PhilC]

@PhilC in the meantime, if you need any of the transfer/flash/etc software or any other bits, just let me know

yes all of it please but I'm doing the hardware bit first

[mrbombermillzy]

yes all of it please but I'm doing the hardware bit first

Dammit! The laptop power switch board that has the saved files on seems to have given up the ghost.

I ordered an external 2.5" SATA enclosure, so hopefully I can move the drive to that. However, ebays estimated delivery is this Friday.

We do have another one in the house, but it will be neck and neck which appears/gets found first, as Ive no idea where it rests.

EDIT: Failing that, I can try to trawl through sites on the internet archive to find the relevant SW.

Im sure CSDB must have a fair amount of it tucked away too.

[Higgy]

I had 2 of these, they both were outputting weirdly a NTSC Composite signal (bought 2nd hand from UK eBay), so only about 2 of my PAL CRT's showed a colour picture. Composite and LCD did not look too good.

I only have 1 unit now, but both of them were the V2 version, which meant from memory they cannot be modded
Only thing I did was add a 5V jack for power.

I need to watch the YouTube video of Jenny Elsworth who designed it (I think I got that correct?).