Tag: through hole

Open, through-hole RF-modulator replacement with adjustable C64 luma and chroma output levels.

The repository supplies KiCad sources, Gerbers, a schematic, a BOM, and assembly and adjustment instructions. Components were estimated at about $12 when documented, excluding PCBs and shipping. Building the board requires through-hole assembly; installing it requires safely desoldering the original RF can and selecting the correct jumper configuration. Using the shortboard setting on a longboard can feed the wrong voltage and damage the VIC-II.

Lets an Apple IIe use a native DB-9 serial PC mouse with adjustable tracking and accelerator compensation.

The MacEffects page said Sold out on 2026-07-24. It only accepts native DB-9 serial mice: PS/2 conversion, dual-mode mice, and the Apple M0100 are unsupported. It is also incompatible with the BMOW Yellowstone card.

Replaces a failed Commodore PET motherboard with a modern 32 KB board supporting selectable 40- and 80-column modes, several BASIC versions, and original PET interfaces.

Tynemouth Software's active Tindie listing offered revision 1.84B as either a through-hole self-assembly kit or a built and tested board on 2026-07-27. International buyers are instructed to contact the seller for a shipping quote.

Replaces a socketed 6502 with a W65816 running at up to 10 MHz, backed by fast RAM and programmable flash ROM.

The project publishes Eagle board and schematic files, VHDL and CPLD binaries, test software, and GPLv2-licensed documentation, but no current assembled seller was verified. Revision 1.2b is marked 'ok'; older revisions are prototypes. Building it depends on older Xilinx ISE-era tooling or a compatible programming path, two programmed flash devices, and a socketed host CPU. The author's 10 MHz timing uses 55 ns SRAM outside its rated access time; his burn-in test passed, but builders should not treat that result as a component guarantee.

Recreates an expandable Apple-1-compatible computer as either a compact single board or a set of functional cards on a backplane.

The GPL-3.0 repository supplies KiCad design files, fabrication exports, schematics, bills of materials, firmware, and assembly guidance. Builders must fabricate boards, source components, solder the computer, program its EEPROM, and load the Arduino Nano interface software. Retro Electronics had one bare backplane PCB, three bare VDU PCBs, and five bare VDU color-amplifier PCBs in stock on 2026-07-27; these are parts of the RC6502 build and do not constitute a complete kit. Early SBC revisions D and E need the documented CPU-power patch wire; the repository's current bill of materials names Revision H.

Recreates the Apple-1 as a buildable 6502 computer with composite video, modern power, and PS/2, adapted USB, or ASCII keyboard input.

ReActiveMicro exposed assembled and kit selectors plus an Add to cart control on 2026-07-27. Supply a 1 A Micro USB power source, composite display, and compatible keyboard; USB keyboards require an adapter. The kit is intended for builders with intermediate soldering knowledge. Some systems powered by supplies with isolated grounds can suffer recurring slash characters and line feeds; the support wiki documents grounding, firmware, resistor, and capacitor remedies.