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    Title: Coleco Gemini
    Created: 16.03.2009 05:25
    Fixing the Coleco Gemini I was given. :)
    Close up of the CPU for a friend.
    Close up of the CPU ...    		 Annnnd IT WORKS! :D ~0.5 hours of toying around & ~0.5 hours of letting my iron warm up :) Ahhh, classic gaming at it's finest... As a side note, "Venture" is a really cool game.
    Annnnd IT WORKS! :D...    		 Sooo, after noticing the left direction didn't work on the player 1 port, and the player 2 port didn't work at all... I re-soldered all the pins on the ports, and fired up two-player Ice Hockey to test!
    Sooo, after noticing...    		 Another shot of the Gemini after my first soldering on it. Mouse Trap is impossible to play without the left direction on the joystick!
    Another shot of the ...
    After re-soldering the power jack (which was wayyyy more annoying that it should have been), I tested it out... It works! ... Sort of... Can't use the right direction on the first player port and the second player port doesn't even work.
    After re-soldering t...    		 My terrible work station... A lot can be learned about me from this shot. :)
    My terrible work sta...    		 A quick check reveals that the power jack isn't even connected to the board anymore... Hard to see in this picture, but there's a small gap around the leads. (Most noticable on the left-most lead.)
    A quick check reveal...    		 Ripping the "non-functioning" Coleco apart!
    Ripping the "no...
    Here's the Coleco I was recently given as "non-functioning".
    Here's the Coleco I ...
    Title: Proxima & PSU Tests
    Created: 21.02.2008 19:59
    These are the pictures from my adventures fixing a Proxima Ultralight and testing some ATX power supplies.
    Proxima Ultralight SV1+
    Proxima Ultralight S...    		 I couldn't resist a little fun on the projector... Haha. (Alba18/PangyaJP -> Tsukaya [only really on alba now that pangyajp has banned all non-japanese IPs]).
    I couldn't resist a ...    		 The Proxima, newly fixed, in its new home: The meeting room.
    The Proxima, newly f...    		 So, I'm missing a few pictures; but basically: The fuse from the burnt PSU was the same as the one in the Proxima, and after a bit of soldering on the Proxima and some hot glue (to prevent more burning on it's board) it was back up and running! I saved my company like $1000.
    So, I'm missing a fe...
    A really, really burnt PSU. But the fuse was still intact... Hmmm....
    A really, really bur...    		 Here's the setup I used for testing the PSUs. You can see my super-hard-to-make PS_ON tool plugged into the end of the mobo plug.
    Here's the setup I u...    		 My super-hard-to-make tool for getting the ATX power supplies to power up. This shorts the PS_ON (pin 14) to a ground (I use pin 15).
    My super-hard-to-mak...    		 Here we can see problem two: A blown fuse. (it's ceramic so I had to use my multimeter)
    Here we can see prob...
    Here we can see one of the problems with the PSU: The board is badly burnt, and some connections are no longer ... connected.
    Here we can see one ...    		 This is a non-functional power supply from an old Proxima Ultralight SV1+ projector that my office was going to throw out.
    This is a non-functi...