29 Jun
2008
29 Jun
'08
5:08 p.m.
Seth Morabito wrote:
Does anyone know of a commercially available
replacement power supply,
before I go off and build one? A linear supply would be trivial to
design, but I've never done a switching power supply, which I suppose
would be greatly preferable. The trick with the C64 is that it
requires both 9V AC and +5V DC. (I've considered frankensteining
together 9V AC and +5V DC wall-wart adapters onto the same DIN-7
cable, but it just feels so very very wrong).
Sounds like you just need a single 9VAC power supply, a bridge, a
voltage regulator, and perhaps some caps to clean up the signal a bit.
The trick is to provide enough wattage.