Brilliant video Tim. I managed to snag a lovely condition C16 a few years ago from F/Book/MarketPlace which had a blown internal fuse and a faulty power supply plug. After replacing the internal fuse with a brand new one and fixing the P/Supplies faulty plug the machine powered up perfect. I then researched on Google to add the 64k RAM upgrade, which i did mine with an On-Off inline switch (so i can still switch back to the standered 16k (as there are a few C16 games that refuse to run correctly in 64k mode (Rockman is just one of these games). I also added an internal SD2IEC Micro SD card board, added heat sinks to the main IC chips and it works flawless. I last owned a C16 in the late 1980's/early 1990's and spent many joyfull and happy hours playing Rockman, Bandits at Zero, Booty and Blagger. For me the C16 is still such a thing of pure beauty and nostalgia.
Great, thank you. Yes, using the board to align the sockets does help. Dual wipe sockets are more forgiving for alignment, but the turned pins ones seem a better contact.
Wow, I thought that would have been in a wedge case and not a bread bin. I didn't know the made a C-16 like that. I guess the smaller ram chips were a lot cheaper back in the days of lore.
If you ask me, this is a super ugly update. (Sorry to say.) It is way tidier to replace the existing 16KB DRAMs with 64KB DRAMs and run the wires on the bottom side of the board, if you run them in horizontal/vertical lines, with a drop of glue, this looks super tidy. For the cutting the trace under U7 I did drill a tiny hole, this causes less scars than desoldering U7.
Brilliant video Tim. I managed to snag a lovely condition C16 a few years ago from F/Book/MarketPlace which had a blown internal fuse and a faulty power supply plug. After replacing the internal fuse with a brand new one and fixing the P/Supplies faulty plug the machine powered up perfect. I then researched on Google to add the 64k RAM upgrade, which i did mine with an On-Off inline switch (so i can still switch back to the standered 16k (as there are a few C16 games that refuse to run correctly in 64k mode (Rockman is just one of these games).
I also added an internal SD2IEC Micro SD card board, added heat sinks to the main IC chips and it works flawless. I last owned a C16 in the late 1980's/early 1990's and spent many joyfull and happy hours playing Rockman, Bandits at Zero, Booty and Blagger. For me the C16 is still such a thing of pure beauty and nostalgia.
When you zoom out, it’s amazing what drives us.
Great, thank you. Yes, using the board to align the sockets does help. Dual wipe sockets are more forgiving for alignment, but the turned pins ones seem a better contact.
Nice upgrade :) .. Id keep the ram chip you took out mate .. They go in the C64 466 board :)
Don't worry, I'm not getting rid of them ;)
I think they are the wrong ones. The 64 uses a pair of xx464, 4 bits x 64K, but these are xx416, 4 bits x 16K hence the need for the upgrade.
@DaveCurran correct fella .. I dont know what I was thinking. It must be an age thing, lol
@@8BitRetroReFix I think we could all do with a memory upgrade :^)
I'm still not getting rid of them! ;-)
Wow, I thought that would have been in a wedge case and not a bread bin. I didn't know the made a C-16 like that. I guess the smaller ram chips were a lot cheaper back in the days of lore.
The wedge case didn't appear until the C128, and by that time the C16 was done and dusted. I guess it didn't sell well enough for them to retool.
@@TimsRetroCorner I meant the wedge case that the C64C (Short Board was in). Wasn't that sort of wedgy? (lol)
Yep. It was a shortened version of the C128 case.
@@TimsRetroCorner Ah, okay, I did not know that; cool. It is good to learn at least one new thing each day .
Did a similar mod with 2 chips and breakout wires, looks like a neat mod, how you finding the ksger ?
The Ksger is a dream!
If you ask me, this is a super ugly update. (Sorry to say.) It is way tidier to replace the existing 16KB DRAMs with 64KB DRAMs and run the wires on the bottom side of the board, if you run them in horizontal/vertical lines, with a drop of glue, this looks super tidy. For the cutting the trace under U7 I did drill a tiny hole, this causes less scars than desoldering U7.