Hi, happy new year, i liked your videos and continue to your nice work. Thanks a lot.🎉

Hallo, should you have a spare of the internal drive led (actually it's fitted into the case), I would likely make you an offer for that, as I accidentally broke the leads of my drive led cable while cleaning. Cheers!

Yeah, those to pads would have come of even if rotate mangled with the pliers. But after you had them replace professionally. Thanks again for a phantastic journey to watch.

Somebody show this to AVGN!

The mighty Donkey Kong

That thing is a beast!

Still have it!!!

You can cut off about 1or 2mm of the end of the ribbon cable, it fixed the same issue for my one and few other 600's

Hi Tommy and family, happy new year 2025! Great job you did again Tommy. Nicely work. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

very good my friend...

I very much appreciate your informative posting. I have recently acquired a Tandberg 12 series, like the one shown, which runs but without sound. The belt is slipping and will need to be replaced. I am hoping you may be able to advise on a source for belt replacement, and also shed light on why the internal speakers do not work. My late father owned a Tandberg 12 in the sixties and recorded family conversations which I would like to digitise, so I am endeavouring to get this working. Hoping you can help and thanks in advance

Besides the 44pin ide cf Card adapters there are 40pin IDE adapters with molex power Socket available as well which should Work with your zappo. Since you have an internal memory Expansion of 8 MB built in, the a600 will Not ready anything from the pcmcia Port since they upper 4mb of your RAM Expansion use the Same adress space AS your pcmcia Port . You need to disable at least the upper 4 MB of your fastram to geht Things going....

Happy New Year Tommy! Thanks for another good video. I was out of personal computing during the Amiga and Atari ST timeframe and I've considered picking up an Amiga to experience the hardware. A 600 seems like a good option compared to the price of the later AGA machines and the extreme size of the A500. I'll have to keep my eye out for one.

Happy New Year, Nice video, Thanks a lot. ❤

What is "JUNE BUG" on the motherboard?

Happy New year. Looking forward to your interesting videos for 2025 Tommy. The A600 is a great machine

(26:28) For future works, I recommend that you try replacing that tape with one or more layers of aluminium foil. In theory, one or more layers of aluminium will reflect and dissipate heat much better, and will better protect plastics, components and PCB areas that you don't want to damage. 👋

The A600 was my dream machine during my teenage years, ... but never achieved 💰💰💰😔🙃 Godt nytt år! 👋

Happy new year! Keep up the nice work!

Nicely done Tommy, happy new year

Great video and thank you for showing the new Spectrum. I like it :) I just got myself a ZX81, need to learn how to type on it first :) ha ha Cheers!

Just picked up on of these systems. Works great EXCEPT i have to manually re-install the boot keys. I think the battery on the motherboard might be bad. Might be good idea while upgrading the drive(s) to also replace the battery (That's what I plan to do). :) Thanks for the video.

Have a happy new year Arctic retro

Great video! I need to replace my XEG dead ROM with an EPROM. I have a 64KB EPROM. Could it work? Or I need to have a 32KB one?

This board is very confusing due to lack of instruction sheet- and the choice of S-video vs Composite... composite looks easy, witht he 100(p?)F cap between chroma nd luma, but the bodge wuire and which components to cut, and traces to cut are *not* clear. Does anyone have a simple schematic /github link?

Bonjour youtoubeur artic rétro, quel outil utiliser vous pour refaire la nappe de contact ? La mienne étant user par endroit j'ai une petite fiol à base argent une sorte de patte conductrice est que cela pourrais convenir à mon problème de confection du 2ieme écran ??? Cdlt.

Always enjoy your channel Tommy, Happy new year from down under...

bought one from a K Mart employee when they came out, think i paid 50$ or so. compuserve was somewhere around 5$ an hour. dial up, good old cassette drive and magazines with programs that you typed out to copy. had a 64 and a 128 before building an IBM compatible

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Hi, what PCB thickness did you order OK with the edge connector?

Ahhh, we now have the idea there will be somewhat less content coming in the future. ;) I never was someone expecting a video every week or so. Simply keep publish whenever you're ready to. Never feel under a pressure, please. I hope you will not completely drop unpacking videos because I like them especially. Of course you don't have to show anything but the heater and cool retro stuff you will have to keep sharing I hope. Many thanks for having taken us for a dive into the Norwegian magazine. We also had multi-platform ones I didn't like back then. I always thought them to be of less value because I only could have made use of the C64 articles in those. LOL With you now this is a very pleasant travel to what I had missed like so. Sighs. You are also talking about Patreon. I took a look into such creator support programmes. They'd all require me to open some sort of Paypal or other account. So those are an American thing I think. I'll probably never understand why it needs two money providers in between you and me. :( Have a happy 2025 and thank you for all you do for this community.

I never had such a computer so very nice to see you make it work again. MSX could have been the standard to rule the world - but then came other computers and eventually PC. ;) You are the expert. This power board was a really nasty one. Many thanks for excellent entertainment one more time.

Hermoso video como siempre!!!

Feliz navidad y que tengas un prospero año nuevo

There are some cool new T-shirts that say "I'm on the Spectrum". Have a Happy New Year!

If you allow me to ask, does doing this leave the internal program original or is it erased?

I'd advise to replace the 7805 with a switching module. Also add cooling to the ULA and perhaps the Z80 too. Remove the whole video module and replace the innards with a zxvid module for very nice picture (solves also backporch problem). Always replace the keyboard, these are almost all bad or will be soon (heat and age is the problem). While am at it I'm upgrading the onboard RAM too.

Thanks for this video. I have a couple of these.

Congrats to you and your future wife. I did the same 14 years ago and I don’t regret a second of that. Hope you will unite soon. ❤ Thank you for a good video also. Wish you a merry Christmas.

Yikes! Those images of Maria Whittaker are nightmare fuel!

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2025. Looking forward to watching your channel in the new year.

Merry Christmas, Married my Filipino girlfriend about a year ago (was living in Singapore).

Have you sold your 486c It is ever elusive to me on eBay, and I even put out word on the vcf forum for one. They are being bought up on eBay right under my nose. I literally missed two by a few hours.

Great video and result

i like your christmas videos alot tommy..the c64 xmas video is a favorite..congrats on your new wife from hong kong! the artic retro guy gets around!enjoyed the 1984 magazine .i love going back in the day! merry christmas from the usa my friend!

Merry Christmas and happy new year Tommy:) I love your videos

Hi Tommy, Nice goodies from PCB. I wish you and your family happy holidays and a good new year 2025 and much love in your live with your girlfriend. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands

You might get with Noel Llopis (Noel's Retro Lab). He's something of an expert on SpectraVideo equipment. His video on the SVI-728 is at: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gZ3OkJ-Oaqaoj8k When there are large cracks that may not seal or mate properly, baking soda sprinkled over the CA glue can accelerate curing. You might experiment with it on non-critical PCBs first, just to get a feel for how it works .

Merry Christmas and happy new year from Spain.