– Retrodrömmar
An iPhone 7 I bought from Swedish eBay worked perfectly fine, except for some distortment on the camera lens as seen below. This are due to aging and / or damage to the lens and can only be fixed by replacing the camera. In this I will show how to replace the iPhone 7 rear camera. To follow this guide, you need some tools (included…
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In this post I will write some notes on the Hyundai P5000M series PC. I recently aqcuired a machine from Swedish eBay, and I have conducted a few restorations and repairs on the machine, which I will describe here. The reason why I bought this particular machine was that my father bought one of these in the Swedish home PC government program in the mid-1990s….
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In 2018, I made a video and a post where I repaired a TAC-2 joystick with a broken stick. This process was performed by using tire valve, a screw eye, and a newly crafted ball at the end of the stick. See: At the end of the post, I mentioned that we also created a stick with a chrome look during this process, by attaching…
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The Slik Stik joystick, often known as the “little brother” of the classic TAC-2, was created by Suncom as a part of its line of controllers for the C64 / Atari / Amiga etc line of computers and video games. As with other joysticks from this time, the Slik Stik may require some maintenance to work properly. I recently bought one of these on Swedish…
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One of my Commodore 64:s (C64) did not respond to pressing certain keys, so I decided to give the keyboard a good clean. In this post I will describe this cleaning process. Step 1: Remove the keyboard from the main unit As seen in the images below, I am working on a C64 model “C”, which disassembles by removing three screws below the unit. Then,…
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Nintendo 64 was released in Japan and USA in 1996 and Europe and Australia in 1997. It was the successor the Super Nintendo and introduced 3D graphics similar to other popular consoles at the time, such as SEGA Saturn and Sony Playstation. The reception of the console was generally good, and the transition from 2D Mario to 3D Mario in Super Mario 64 was deemed…
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I got my Hewlett Packard 1040 G1 laptop back in 2015-ish, and it is still a quite competent machine with its Intel I7 cpu. However, over time, it may require some service, including changing thermal paste on the cpu, add memory, replace battery and so on. In this post, I will disassembly my machine and add new thermal grease on the cpu. The reason for…
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The Gameboy Advance SP (“SP” stands for SPecial) was an upgraded version of the Gameboy Advance, with a different form factor, and most important of all: a backlit screen. The backlit screen make the GBA SP a great choice for playing Gameboy (GB), GBC and GBA games. In this post, I will briefly show how to replace the battery in the GBA SP, and focus…
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The NES controller with its characteristic D-pad, select, start and A and B button is liked by many, and is considered a standard for how a digital controller should function. As these controllers are 35+ years old at the time of writing, they need maintenance to function properly. In this post, I will write a few notes about how to perform such maintenance. The post…
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Previously I wrote a post about replacing the capacitors of a Game Gear (see, Game Gear re-cap). I recently bought another Game Gear that would not power on, so I made another re-cap, with a slightly revised routine for replacing the capacitors. For instructions on how to disassembly the Game Gear, and how to identify the capacitors, please see the post linked above. In this…
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