[Coco] Help! A CoCo2 died on me!

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

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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