Lardo Boffin

Hi all I have just got a 6 switch woody with what looks like a protective cover over the switch area. Or possibly the plastic has started to delaminate… Did these come with a protective cover on them? As can be seen in the last photo it is starting to peel away. As an aside the RF picture quality is really great on this! Thanks!

Voltage regulator is now firmly in place thanks to a nut and bolt from a ZX81 that no longer needed them.

Photos. The case on this is a real dust magnet.

I will take some more photos later but definitely has Atari on it (just to right of the power switch):

Thanks! I will desolder and reposition the regulator so it doesn’t melt itself! I did have a look at photos of the odd one that appears on eBay (where they posted photos of the underside) and most clearly have RF shields but some don’t so I guess its a relatively common issue.

Hello all I have just got my first 2600 Junior in black but the regulator is not attached to the metal of the PCB, nor is it lined up properly to allow it to be held in place by a nut and bolt. Is this normal or a manufacturing / repair defect? Also - no RF shield. Has they abandoned them by the time these were released? Many thanks!

That is an impressively clear screen output. ? How do you do it?

Mine boots every time on the fixed version but if I go ‘down’ several levels to load a game it fails - so if I select Games / A to Z / A and then a game starting with A it crashes. If I move a game I want to load to the first level of menu it loads fine.

There is a copy of this for sale on eBay in the UK at the moment.

Turns out I was over thinking the whole process. ? Just put all the discs in a separate folder called Phantasie II, call them D1, D2 etc. (so it is easy to see which is which on the LCD screen) and then use K2 to move between them at run time and K4 to mount. Simples! Spent way too much time setting up multi-disc .LST files etc. on the C64 so I can play Wasteland.

Thanks. Its one of these: https://www.lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=237 Sorry - spent too much time with C64s recently!

Hi Does anyone know how to work multi-disc games on the lotharek SD2IEC connected to an Atari 800 (not XL)? I have managed to put the four discs of Phantasie II into disc slots 1 to 4 (select the correct disc and then press 1, 2, 3 or 4. Simple once I worked out how!) but when I boot from disc 1 it soon asks for disc 3 but nothing I have tried so far allows me to mount disc 3 and load the rest of the game. Any help appreciated thanks!

I have put a little grease outside the white part that has split and although the key now feels different to the others it springs back happily into place! The others that were sticking have had the same treatment and are fine. Hopefully this is a reasonable long term solution. ?

The joystick works and any file I drag up a few levels works! Now I just need to figure out how multi load works... Managed to get the four discs for Phantasie II mounted in D1 to 4 (I think) but switching between D1 to D4 on the SD never seems to work - it keeps asking for side 3. Do I need to press some other key somewhere? A manual for this thing would be so useful!

Yes I used the fixed loader thanks. Will give the joystick a go.