Finally got around installing a TheRetroChannel RF-OFF modulator replacement into my Commodore 16. I ordered this a while back... The ground plane around the modulator put up a bit of a fight, but managed to do it in the end.

I'm not too comfortable with that tower of the Saruman TED 64K expansion, plus the luma bypass adapter on top of each-other, crowned by the TED chip, but it seems to work and it even fits under the keyboard in the black breadbox.

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The technical brilliance of the Amiga intro, "Interceptor Intro" by Complex and Zymosis, likely largely went over the head of most of the audience at #Revision2025, I feel. The intro doesn't use the CPU at all once running (the CPU is only used for the setup). Even the Protracker music replay routine is only using copper and blitter. The basic concept of copper using blitter to reprogram the copper on the fly is not new, but this is by far the most impressive demonstration of the technique so far, I think.

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2cjAdqdRPM

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Oh no, they're multiplying!

One of these Commodore 116 doesn't belong to me, and overall it's in a much better nick than mine. Works perfectly, and looks very unmolested - but of course someone had a go at the keyboard already, and some of the plastic pins holding it together are already broken. No surprises there.

I will do the screw-conversion on it, now that I can, and have the tools for it, and then we'll see what else.

cc: @iszell

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