Date   : Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:02:49 +0000
From   : public@... (Daniel Beardsmore)
Subject: Fried Ferranties; was Commodore 64 BBC BASIC

Ah. Glad that for once it's not just me. I did manage for three years with 
a no yellow in mode 2 and other fun until I replaced my Beeb with a PC. (Second-hand
machine with that fault from when I got it. That was my first computer. It
lived up to its aims as an educational machine, I can tell you!)

The diminishing-time-until-crash fault with Issue 4s is just me, though,
apparently :)

On 28/01/2013 08:34, Rob wrote:
> On 28 January 2013 01:57, Daniel Beardsmore <public@...> wrote:
>> Talking about crap displays -- if you use a VTI video chip on a board 
that had a fried Ferranti video chip (i.e. most of them ;-) and connect 
the machine to a TV, you get a really messed up mode 7, or at least I did.
But not on a monitor. But maybe that was just a specific issue with that
computer. But that's getting way off topic now :)
> 
> That's a known issue, due to a difference between the chips.  There's
> a mod-wire that needs adding or removing, depending on which way you
> are going.  Don't forget the heatsink, too :-)
> 
> Rob
>