*That* looks weird. I connected a USB gamepad through a mouSTer *and* a C64-joyport adapter I got with the machines, and all gamepad directions also trigger a set of keypresses that I don't see with a regular joystick..
I found a seller of 4464s on eBay in a France and ordered two. I popped one of the ones that came from China and put one in, and now the #Fixteen works! So now I have two "Minus 4"s!
That means I have a spare 4464 in case one of the others break down later.
Looks like the #LumaFix64 and #RetroScaler2x do NOT like each other. That's not how it is supposed to look like. No matter how much I adjusted the pots.
Tried in both my working C64s, same result.
Sometimes it shows garbage on start, sometimes just a black screen. I'll leave it in, disabled.
Uh oh, that is not good. The second unit gives me a black screen with the expansion installed. I pushed in the RAM chips and got some junk on the screen instead.
Moving the jumper to 16K makes it boot up again, so at least I didn't kill the TED chip (I *did* bend its legs slightly on extraction, so I was worried).
So, are the RAM chips on the Fixteen bad, or the assembly? I have no clue. I'll lend it in, but turned off. At least the other one works fine.
So, does this make it a Commodore 64? Or maybe a Commodore Minus 4?
#PCBWay delivers.
But I need something to pull the TED out without destroying it. It's not as simple as it looks in all those videos the repair guys keep publishing :-) So far all I've manged to do is to make scratch marks...
Peter Krefting
