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Dominic Berlemann

October 5th, 2015 at 8:55 PM

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Nice piece of work!

Some1

December 26th, 2018 at 12:12 PM

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I know I’m commenting very late but in case anyone else stumbles across this post: The C128 and the D version were designed at the same time, but production of the 128D was delayed. The C64C-style 128 has the hole in the motherboard because the motherboard also had to fit the 128D, which needs it for a support pillar.

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  Jani
  December 29th, 2018 at 3:03 PM

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  Thanks, addidtional information is always welcome 🙂

Aleksandar Mraovic

January 27th, 2019 at 2:24 AM

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I just got a 128 flat, and I also have an additional wire on the board like the “D” here from J7 to one side of that cap. Do you think that is factory? Because someone also installed a custom character rom like on the picture of that “D” board.

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  Jani
  January 28th, 2019 at 1:52 PM

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  Hi Alexandar,
  The modification is factory and used for switching to (inter)national characterset. The J7 is configured to connect together CAPSLOCK-key and pin 21 on the CHARROM(U18). This allows you to switch banks in the CHARROM using the CAPSLOCK-key, resulting in two individual charactersets. The CAPSLOCK key has different printing in different regions. “CAPS LOCK”(US), “ASCII/DIN”(DE), “CAPS LOCK ASCII/CC”(SE/FI). Possibly other combinations exist.
  Regards
  Jani

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  Aleksandar Mraović
  January 28th, 2019 at 4:33 PM

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  That looks to be exactly it!
  The rom is marked with de localization and I also have key marked ASCII/DIN.

  Impressed by your knowledge. Cheers!

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  Jani
  January 28th, 2019 at 6:00 PM

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  Thanks 🙂

Jeroen

June 4th, 2020 at 9:07 AM

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there’s another C128 mainboard out there…
it’s board 250783, it’s the cost reduced version mainboard for the wedge shaped version of the C128, called C128CR.