Amstrad CPC 464 plus - Gav tries to fix (with video)
By Gavin Davies 16 March 2024
I found this CPC 464 plus in a skip about a year ago. I hadn’t tried to power it on until recently… And I went on quite the journey towards getting it up and running! There was a rather insane gotcha along the way!
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