[Coco] Help! A CoCo2 died on me!

[Fedor Steeman]

Thanks, Phill! I will try the MOTORON trick. That should give me a clue
whether it's still alive...

BTW I tried the CoCo on the same television set on which it worked before,
after it did not appear to work on a projector and a television.  So... am
100% positive that the (PAL) signal won't come through. What's more, I wish
dual standard TVs were as common here as seems to be your impression. That
would solve a lot of CoCo hassles for me. So far, I haven't stumbled upon
any yet.

I will try to make some pictures and sketches of the mod this evening (if my
wife lets me). It appears to be something the previous owner built himself
from scratch out of loose components. Looks pretty ingenious to me. I hope I
can make sense of it...

Cheers,

Fedor


On 16/06/06, Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Quoting Fedor Steeman <petrander at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yeah, it would seem logical that there is only something wrong with the
> > display circuitry that was modded, but the computer itself is still
> working
> > fine. I will try to describe the mod. It would be helpful if I had a
> CoCo2
> > schematic. Does anyone where I can find one?
>
> You could verify if it is just a problem with the display circuitry,
> power the machine on and type motoron (and press enter of course) and
> listern for the click from the cassette motor (I have used this trick
> a couple of times with Dragon machines, and the CoCo2 should be near
> enough).
>
> > BTW this is a PAL version of an early CoCo2 (still with Radio Shack on
> it).
>
> I know this may sound obvious, but you are sure your TV/monitor will
> display a PAL signal ? It seems that dual standards TVs are prety
> common in Europe, but not nearly as common in the US.
>
> If you do open the machine off, if you can take some digital piccies
> and put them on a website somewhere it maight help us identify the mod
> that has been made to your machine. For instance I have a UK model
> CoCo 1 that has a factory fited mod to the display circuit, on
> investigation it looks like an NTSC machine that has been factory
> hacked to work with PAL.....
>
> Cheers.
>
> Phill.
>
>
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