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Fixing + modding the Worlds First Real console

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RetroGameCouch

RetroGameCouch

Күн бұрын

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In this video I mod and repair the Fairchild Channel F (or in my case the Saba Videoplay system) , the worlds first cartridge based video game console. The mod should have been pretty straightforward, but with retro hardware nothing ever is. Join me in my quest to repair and mod this console from 1976!
Fairchild Channel F Wiki (w/ mod): channelf.se/ve...
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@ClemensWennersMusic
@ClemensWennersMusic 2 ай бұрын
Oh yes! I vividly remember a full evening of frustration with this thing probably a year ago by now.. 😂 We couldn’t get it to do anything! Fantastic video once again mate. A joy to watch!
@RetroGameCouch
@RetroGameCouch 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! So glad I finally got it working.
@ronny332
@ronny332 2 ай бұрын
Great console., I know SABA (living in Germany and being half German and half Dutch it's hard to don't know the brand 🙂), but this console is new to me. Awesome to see it working again(*). I like to see you do some soldering and measuring. Gives the videos an extra touch. Keep going, please 🙂. * always crazy how the electric world was different back then. the idea to force a voltage with a single transistor down to the desired voltage and "burn" the left over energy into the heat sink is so far from who we do it today. I have an old Laserdisc player. The "standby" circuit does the same. It literally burns 7V away (huge heat sink under the transistor) to get 5V for standby. The heat sink warms up really quickly. I have my doubts someone should call it "standby" 🙂It's taking about 15 Watts in that state, just to keep the IR receiver active and the standby led on 🙂Anyway, I love these early days.
@RetroGameCouch
@RetroGameCouch 2 ай бұрын
Yes, these were simpler times. Less regulations and more regulators 😅 I like doing these technical videos too!
@rickg8109
@rickg8109 2 ай бұрын
Thanks dude! Ive been lucky, but saving this for the future!'
@Hotpack7279
@Hotpack7279 2 ай бұрын
I dont remember a Saba-console in Germany. I know some Audio Stuff from Saba. I've been born 79 and my first Console as a Child was the Atari 2600 straight out of Quelle Nürnberg. We were living 1 Hour Drive away and that was a Special day for all of us 3 when my Parents and i get on a Shopping Trip to the City (Nürnberg) . The Grandparents from one of my Friends own a Console to SLOT IN into a Grundig Television. There was a Muti use Slot with s Spring-hinged Door on the right lower side to 1. Put the Remote into (Just for the Tidy Idea) - OR you can also slot the Console into it, and it overrides the TV-Receiver and the TV only shows the Console.
@Hotpack7279
@Hotpack7279 2 ай бұрын
I googled it ant it was the Grundig Super Play Computer 4000 - also and maybe better known as Interton VC 4000
@pixel325
@pixel325 2 ай бұрын
Cool console, never heard of it before and looks to be pretty cool for the age :)
@Lumpeidi
@Lumpeidi Ай бұрын
Realy cool to See u fixed the german Version :) Next: Polyplay 😂
@e5frog
@e5frog Ай бұрын
Great job! Interesting to see the result when you tried to disconnect the RF part. You never tried the pot again after it went grayscale?
@RetroGameCouch
@RetroGameCouch Ай бұрын
No. I didn't.
@KolliRail
@KolliRail 2 ай бұрын
I'm surprised that you managed to solder the wires to the cartridge port! I tried that once but couldn't get reliable connections because the metal is somehow coated and refuses to connect to the solder and because you can't solder with higher temperatures because of the melting plastic. How did you do that?
@RetroGameCouch
@RetroGameCouch 2 ай бұрын
I had it set to 370 degrees celcius and it went OK. Press tinning was key.
@mintpalmer
@mintpalmer 2 ай бұрын
Always the way, right? You fix something and something else breaks 😅
@RetroGameCouch
@RetroGameCouch 2 ай бұрын
Ain't that the truth, especially with retro hardware. 😂
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