Repair of Datasette

Surfin_Bird · Newbie Joined: 11 Aug 2002 Posts: 1

I have a C64 with broken datasette. Where can I find some docs? Please, help me. Maybe somebody has an electronic scheme.

P.S.: Sorry for bad english. Hello from Belarus!!! Laughing

datucker · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 10:26 am Post subject:

Have you tried Google with the keywords 'schematics c64'?

Anyway, a lot of technical info can be found on: http://mars.wiwi.uni-halle.de/ec64/technical1.html

Otherwise try: http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/sc...index.html

I hope you'll find what you need.
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Jarno Beumer

datucker · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 10:27 am Post subject:

Why can't I delete my own errorneous messages? grrr... Evil or Very Mad

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Christian Johansson · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 7:05 pm Post subject:

It says "broken Datassette". It doesn't say "broken C64" so I think the answer with schematics for the C64 was wrong. Are you sure that the Datassette is broken? If you write a simple program like:

10 PRINT "HI!"

and save it with:

SAVE "HI!"

and then load it with:

LOAD "HI!"

If the above works ok but you can't load programs that were saved earlier and which used to load without problems, then the Datassette is probably misaligned, which is pretty easy to fix if you have a very small screwdriver and an alignment program running on the C64. The tricky part is to load an alignment program to the C64 when the Datassette is mis-aligned. For that, you probably need a diskdrive, a correctly aligned Datassette or 64HDD.

datucker · Posted: Mon Aug 12, 2002 7:22 pm Post subject:

Christian Johansson wrote:

It says "broken Datassette". It doesn't say "broken C64" so I think the answer with schematics for the C64 was wrong.

Well, there is a link to the datasette schematics on the pages I mentioned. So what is wrong about it? Laughing

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Jarno Beumer