Mutant Caterpillar Games

18/10/2021

Mark Fixes Stuff - the most excellent Mark Fixes Stuff channel, has recently suffered a horrible house fire ( https://youtu.be/sSoU03s3nzE ) . Please, if anyone has seen and enjoyed his videos (as many of us have), consider a donation to a recovery fund that someone has set up for him, linked below.

Thank you.

Edit: the first fundraiser reached the PayPal limit of £20K! Here's a link to "Level 2" of the fundraiser!

https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8DTQX5YZVO

30/04/2021

Today's the last day of Adam Wilson's charity refurbished Speccy raffle, here!
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-display/showROFundraiserPage?pageId=1262637
I don't think this Speccy is one of ours, but it's still a very worthwhile cause :)

Help Adam change the world! Make a donation now

11/03/2021

Our latest entry into our spares section: the TRS-80 Model I uses a completely non-standard value of quartz crystal, but these 10.6445MHz crystals are now available on our website!
https://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=5174

04/09/2020

Commodore C16 and plus/4 owners! If your machine has a faulty TED, it can now be replaced at a much lower price after a large stash of factory-fresh original 8360 chips was found. Hence we are now able to supply them fully tested, working and guaranteed (if you put a heatsink on it) at a much lower price.
The future of the C16 and plus/4 is now far more secure!
https://www.mutant-caterpillar.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?products_id=5058

25/05/2020

So some of you may know that we recently got hold of a rather neglected Speccy board, and brought it back to life. Not knowing what to do with it, as the board was not exactly perfect condition, but had loads of nice parts put on it to make it work, we eventually decided to put it in a funky white case and list as a charity auction, with 100% of the proceeds for the NHS.
Bid early, bid often, and stuff like that. :) And please spread the word. Every penny goes to the NHS, which we feel is kind of important right now!

22/03/2020

Just a little update given the whole virus situation - work at MCG continues as normal, and hopefully should do for the foreseeable as long as we can still get the supplies (mostly capacitors!), so we're still here if your Spectrum, C64, Amiga or whatever else you have needs a bit of TLC.

18/07/2019

Did you buy a replacement CIA chip (MOS 6526A) from China for your C64? Did it have a suspiciously impossible date code? Did it (amazingly) not work?
This may be why! A number of the CIA chips from China are actually not MOS 6526 chips, completely different UM6526P chip, which is a PAL TIA for the Atari 2600.
As you can see, though, that still comes in handy! This Atari VCS lives again :) A real MOS 6526 would do absolutely nothing in a VCS, but a "refurbished" one works perfectly!

21/06/2019

We have good news for ZX81 fans! We've managed to locate and liberate a small stash of forty-eight brand new old stock Sinclair ZX81 ULAs!
These chips are getting incredibly hard to find now, so we'll not be listing them for sale any more, but rest assured they will be used via our ZX81 repair service to bring people's beloved Zeddies back to life. Long live the ZX81!

03/04/2019

MCG has taken on the 8-bit challenge vs. YouTuber ZeusDaz (see The ZeusFam). After a long, hard-fought battle with another YouTuber Novabug, Zeus emerged victorious. But can the Mutant Caterpillar take him on and win?
Each episode, the challenger must defeat the other on a game chosen by them, and then issue their own challenge for the next game. Zeus challenged us to "Gyroscope" on the Spectrum, reaching the first screen of level 5. But how far did the Mutant Caterpillar get? And what is the game Zeus now has to win at?
Find out here!

The new combatant has accepted the challenge! Zeus's reign of terror may be over.... will he be defeated? Watch to find out.... Also a very brief intro at th...

09/04/2018

We just uploaded our first video review! There may be more (and better ones) in future if people like it.

A video review of the Games Workshop game Talisman, based on the board game of the same name. Apologies for the crooked angle of the camera, I'm still experi...

08/04/2018

A new batch of printers, fully working and guaranteed for a year, all with lovely new belts! These are going onto sellmyretro.com, ebay, and of course our own shop. Click on the Shop Now! button above to see our stock.