If you'd said at the start this machine was DOA I would have felt a lot better knowing you'd not just destroyed a 40 year old console. Wasn't a comfortable watch.
My apologies! I tend to go out of my way to find broken kit to tear down, especially if it doesn't need a demonstration! If I don't say it was working, it's safe to assume it wasn't!
My (well, my Dads, I was about 7!) first ever console!! Loved this thing so much, I've just bought one on eBay that I need to fix!! Lovely to see inside one before I crack mine open!! 😍
Six C cells! The TTL LCD games of the 80’s used two AA’s or so. I guess driving that RF signal is the largest power draw
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It's so weird to think that only a few years after that the home computers started to become a thing (for those interested, not for general public yet).
That Joystick mechanism is actually very similar to the one of an N64 controller. Only they used actual metal here. The N64 one is completely made of plastic and wears out very fast.
Those popper style switches were really common in the early 80's on calculators and everything. Also I could be wrong but I think they did predate microswitches which weren't until the mid 80's IIRC, at least on consumer hardware. I remember microswitches being a big thing when joysticks finally got them.
If this is possible, that console needs audio and video mod inputs just as if Atari 2600 did including main plug in adapter as options so this won't be that complex.
Are they? I would associate membrane switches with a flexible rubber type material and a conductive coating? I accept these aren't truly tact switches either?
Most excellent presentation, nice to see the history behind the device. Lived and worked through all these changes, when I came out of my apprenticeship cutting edge was a four function calculator lol
Ohhh i have an old radofin. I believe radofin was a generic brand and the same model of console was branded differently depending on where you bought it. A bit like old orion branded tvs which were argos/possibly littlewoods. Reason for the same model different brand was so big comapanies could offer a price garuntee that you wouldnt get that tv cheaper elsewhere. Consoles like that are still almost 10 a penny even today as there were so many of them produced and dont realy add to the history of gaming
There are a few clear generations of chip with 1, 4, 6 or 10 games, and you can find them in all sorts of cases from different manufacturers. I had lots of find researching the consoles and choosing which one to use for this! You are right though, in the UK you easily find one for £10 or so if you look!
@@a531016 i picked mine up for a paltry £1 at a bootfair a decade back. It even came with an extra multicart that was boxed. I sold that for a quid effectively making the console free.......oh edit. Just realised yours didnt have a cart slot. So must have been a much earlier model. Design aesthetic was pretty much the same though
Really?? You just ruined a device with more than 40 years just "to see what's inside"??? Are you a 5 year old child or what? With 6 years I already reassembled and tested the things I dissasembled. This channel is worse each day...
I always try and disasemble things non destructively, with a spot of glue to replace the ultrasonic welding, it would be as good as when it arrived with me. Unfortunately that was not working to start with! I did try some basic fault finding to try and get it working too.
If you'd said at the start this machine was DOA I would have felt a lot better knowing you'd not just destroyed a 40 year old console. Wasn't a comfortable watch.
My apologies! I tend to go out of my way to find broken kit to tear down, especially if it doesn't need a demonstration! If I don't say it was working, it's safe to assume it wasn't!
This is what I would do when I was 5 years old. Very disappointed that you didn't turn the system on and show us.
I did try, unfortunately it was DOA!
This used to be a good channel
My (well, my Dads, I was about 7!) first ever console!! Loved this thing so much, I've just bought one on eBay that I need to fix!! Lovely to see inside one before I crack mine open!! 😍
Sorry to hear this unit isn't working, but you still put it to good use! I love seeing the inner workings of old consoles like this.
Thanks Andy!
Six C cells! The TTL LCD games of the 80’s used two AA’s or so. I guess driving that RF signal is the largest power draw
It's so weird to think that only a few years after that the home computers started to become a thing (for those interested, not for general public yet).
You tore it apart for no reason.
I was waiting for him to assemble it back and was like wtf did you just ruin it?
@@soupkin I'm sorry to say that it was long dead before it arrived with me!
The AY-3-8610 He said was 1979 Of July. The year and month i was born :)
Now make it portable.
That Joystick mechanism is actually very similar to the one of an N64 controller. Only they used actual metal here. The N64 one is completely made of plastic and wears out very fast.
Those popper style switches were really common in the early 80's on calculators and everything. Also I could be wrong but I think they did predate microswitches which weren't until the mid 80's IIRC, at least on consumer hardware. I remember microswitches being a big thing when joysticks finally got them.
That would make total sense. I can't see the fiddly assembly being desirable after microswitches and tact switches were released!
If this is possible, that console needs audio and video mod inputs just as if Atari 2600 did including main plug in adapter as options so this won't be that complex.
it's not tack switches, it's membrane switches
Are they? I would associate membrane switches with a flexible rubber type material and a conductive coating? I accept these aren't truly tact switches either?
I have this console (still working). All the games are on this one chip. The chip was created for this kind of consoles.
I was so suprised to see the same chip fitted to a cartridge too? I hand't expected that at all?
Most excellent presentation, nice to see the history behind the device. Lived and worked through all these changes, when I came out of my apprenticeship cutting edge was a four function calculator lol
It amazes me the current tech, even from an integrated circuit stance, let alone connectivity and functionality!
You should do the composite video mod for it 😊
Ohhh i have an old radofin. I believe radofin was a generic brand and the same model of console was branded differently depending on where you bought it. A bit like old orion branded tvs which were argos/possibly littlewoods. Reason for the same model different brand was so big comapanies could offer a price garuntee that you wouldnt get that tv cheaper elsewhere. Consoles like that are still almost 10 a penny even today as there were so many of them produced and dont realy add to the history of gaming
There are a few clear generations of chip with 1, 4, 6 or 10 games, and you can find them in all sorts of cases from different manufacturers. I had lots of find researching the consoles and choosing which one to use for this! You are right though, in the UK you easily find one for £10 or so if you look!
@@a531016 i picked mine up for a paltry £1 at a bootfair a decade back. It even came with an extra multicart that was boxed. I sold that for a quid effectively making the console free.......oh edit. Just realised yours didnt have a cart slot. So must have been a much earlier model. Design aesthetic was pretty much the same though
Yeah!
Really?? You just ruined a device with more than 40 years just "to see what's inside"??? Are you a 5 year old child or what? With 6 years I already reassembled and tested the things I dissasembled.
This channel is worse each day...
I always try and disasemble things non destructively, with a spot of glue to replace the ultrasonic welding, it would be as good as when it arrived with me. Unfortunately that was not working to start with! I did try some basic fault finding to try and get it working too.
Dencap the chip photograph the dies
I'll give it a try! Good Idea, although not sure how good my macro photogrphy is!
You destroyed a 40 year old vintage system in excellent condition.
He said it didnt work. Plus these arent too rare to begin with lol