Amstrad CPC 464 tape-deck re-furb (and an Ulifac II device)
A little while back, ( gosh! was it that far back, wow! those months really do start to fly by, don't they ), I added a 3.5mm phono-jack to one of the Amstrad CPC 464 machines...and well, kinda knackered the second machine as explained in the middle of THIS ARTICLE . I managed to acquire another Amstrad CPC 464 machine that has a faulty motherboard ( one for me to send over to Rob for him to diagnose, fix & keep/sell/whatever ), but the tape-deck "looked" okay. I did a direct swap as it's simple enough...however, the tape deck was not playing ball either. sigh. So I left the two machines under a desk & got on and did some other things. Well... I decided to give these two a look again and see if I can Frankenstein monster something useful out of them. I had actually just watched a YTube video about connecting a Bluetooth adapter, so that was my initial thinking, if I cannot get it to work as-is, I'll just bluetooth it, I have enough old skool BLE adapto...