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It looks like my C64's colour bands are a rare issue.

I've seen one thread on another board which got nowhere and rapidly got off topic talking about drag soldering and oscilloscopes and debated loads of different luma fixes and the US postal service. (It also had people misreading and talking about NTSC, and the original was a PAL machine.)

*sigh*

stephen_usher wrote: 02 Apr 2022 00:39 It looks like my C64's colour bands are a rare issue.

I've seen one thread on another board which got nowhere and rapidly got off topic talking about drag soldering and oscilloscopes and debated loads of different luma fixes and the US postal service. (It also had people misreading and talking about NTSC, and the original was a PAL machine.)

*sigh*

Oh, how annoying. So no relevant info at all? I presume it's a breadbin and not a C?

It started relevant, as in the though was that the colour clock was way off but then the thread got hijacked.

It's an early(ish) breadbin, manufactured around June '83.

Seeing as the Sony Mac to VGA (it specifies Sony display, not VGA :lol: ) adapter arrived this week I pulled the LCII out of storage to test the display.


Outputting through the OSSC gives a beautiful picture on the telly. (The direct VGA input, however, is washed out and fuzzy, but then again that's the same with a PC.)

Anyway, now this test is complete I can extract the battery and safely pack it away for storage. Other than being slightly slow (about the same speed as an SE/30 for everything but the display, which is slower) and can only do 640x480 with 256 colours it's a nice little machine.

Bother! The S-Video cable for the C64 still hasn't arrived. Posted last Thursday apparently.

Another bother!

Why can't RS Components tell you when you order that the stock is not in the UK and instead in one of their European warehouses?

It turns "Next working day delivery" into "Next working week delivery." and there's no warning before or after purchase, only after dispatch you have "multi-courier delivery". Surely advertising "Next working day delivery" and not actually being able to do so at time of purchase breaks the sale of goods act and distance selling laws?

stephen_usher wrote: 04 Apr 2022 20:02 Another bother!

Why can't RS Components tell you when you order that the stock is not in the UK and instead in one of their European warehouses?

It turns "Next working day delivery" into "Next working week delivery." and there's no warning before or after purchase, only after dispatch you have "multi-courier delivery". Surely advertising "Next working day delivery" and not actually being able to do so at time of purchase breaks the sale of goods act and distance selling laws?

How very annoying!

Well, at least the C64 s-video cable arrived, so I'll be able to find out if my TV accepts S-Video on SCART.

stephen_usher wrote: 05 Apr 2022 15:58 Well, at least the C64 s-video cable arrived, so I'll be able to find out if my TV accepts S-Video on SCART.

:girldance: :girldance: :girldance:

Look forward to seeing what results you get :)

I do hate mail order. I've got so many things outstanding now which I can only hope will arrive by the end of the week before I go away for a fortnight.

One item I had no control over the sending of as it was a warranty repair of something costing about £500. It's now just being returned... well the return was scheduled on Monday, but the courier (Parcels 2 Go) wasn't contracted until yesterday. The "tracking" web page is saying that it might have been picked up today, or it might be tomorrow but the page won't be updated for 24 hours... in which case they could be trying to deliver by then. The painful part is that they are going to try to deliver to my home, and I won't be in. So it's touch and go whether they will even attempt to deliver before Saturday. If they miss that window of opportunity they'll either leave it somewhere where it will be ruined or stolen or it will bounce back to the vendor! Stressful. I wish they'd used Parcel Force as they did with the returns label.

Still, it looks like the capacitors may have made it across the channel.

P.S. Or maybe they haven't.