Friday, September 9, 2016

Repairing ZX Spectrum Kempston joystick

As recently I started tinkering with ZX Spectrum hardware, tested one old joystick I had. Up and right positions did not work during the games. Tested port reading with one simple program:

10 LET x=IN 31
20 PRINT X
30 GOTO 10

There was no reading in up and right position.
I took apart joystick case and tested connection between PCB and plug - there was no connection for up and right wires.












So, just took now DB9 female connector and soldered it instead of an old one that I have just cut away.

 

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