Commodore SX-64 has returned! What, as I had shown you in this article, had arrived damaged, destroyed during transport.
The story of my Commodore SX-64
When I had received the damaged SX-64 Commodore, I have to admit it, I was quite bad. I had ordered the vintage computer on eBay at a fairly honest price. Obviously, speaking of an SX64 Commodore, you cannot pretend to buy it for a few euros. It was an honest price, but quite supported. The computer, from the photo of the description of the advertising, presented itself in excellent condition. Too bad that during transport had been damaged.
In the video, I also deepened the insurance issue. The transport, with which the computer had arrived damaged, was insured! Unfortunately, for a quibble, the insurance did not intervene.
I got to confront the seller. We agreed for a solution: I would have found an adequate packaging for this SX 64 Commodore, I would have sent him back, he would have repaired it completely at his expense and I would have reorganized the return shipment.
So here is the box I designed, to be sure to transport this heavy vintage computer: a huge box, with another box inside and ... with another box inside, with the SX64.
All filled with abundant packaging material, so that any blows that the package had suffered could not reach the computer.
In the video, I showed the unboxing of the package. The computer, finally, came to me intact!
Commodore SX-64 test
To try the Commodore SX64, I connected the keyboard of the Commodore 64, with appropriate adapter. The adapter cable connects under the vintage computer, in the appropriate keyboard door.
On the other hand, the adapter has a comb connector to connect the keyboard of the Commodore 64, which can be inserted in one verse.
The computer started immediately, just powered, without problems. The seller did a great job of repairing.
The game Spy Hunter
To test the floppy disk drive, I loaded the video game Spy Hunter, a game I played when I was a kid.
Before inserting a floppy disk into the drive, check that the magnetic disk does not have mold stains. If the disc is affected by stains, you must avoid inserting it into the drive, because the head could be damaged and contaminate other disks that would be inserted later.
To view the list of disk files, the classic 8 -bit computers of computers are used:
LOAD "$",8 LIST
Next, you load the game with:
LOAD "FILE NAME",8 RUN
After a few tens of seconds of loading (I do not have the Fastload cartridge installed), the game started. Leo and I managed to play: the computer works fine. We tried the joystick, keyboard, audio and video, as well as diskette loading.
All's well that ends well! I'm glad the Commodore SX-64 is back intact, healthy and functional!