30 Jun
2008
30 Jun
'08
4:49 p.m.
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Golan Klinger <gklinger at gmail.com> wrote:
Seth Morabito wrote:
Aha! Well, I'm glad that you pointed this out. It seems like the
wall-wart path is a false economy.
I'm going to build my own simple linear power supply. I'll go looking
for power transformers with two 9V secondary windings this week.
-Seth
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).
Like this:
<http://c64.digitalscream.com/Slappy/slappys-power-supply.JPG>
The power supply in that photo caused quite a stir in the C= community
earlier this year. You can read more about the sordid affair here: