Commodore 1541 Diskette Drive diagnostic test cartridge. Tested on breadbox64.com

1541 Diagnostic Cart

Repairing Commodore 1541 Diskette Drives (link) is not something I have tried before. But when I recently had these four broken drives thrown in my general direction I had to take up the challenge! The problem with diskette drive repair’s is that most diagnostick software … Read more

Green Short Boards

…and a yellow longboard have been added to my collection of Commodore 64 motherboards. The yellow Assy 250425 Revision B longboard is in really great shape. It has a MOS 8500 MPU which is quite unusual for the long boards. Normally they have MOS 6510 … Read more

Myoungshin Fanta Joystick fightstick for Tekken. Breadbox64.com

Oaky Fanta Fight Stick

I just finished this custom fight stick for a German gamer. The stick is made from a solid piece of oak wood that I got from a local lumber mill and the fight stick is made for the Tekken fighting game. Due to this, I … Read more

More C64 Repair Logs

During the last couple of weeks I’ve received 8 (!) broken Commodore 64 machines that were in need of repair. The repair logs of three of them have already been described here (link), while the latter five had issues ranging from faulty Serial Ports (link, link, link), … Read more

Jupiter Lander running with failed RAM chips. breadbox64.com

Brute Force Repair!

I have fixed quite a few broken Commodore 64’s, but this one was by far the most challeging one! The machine started out as a simple memory fault that was fixed so it could run the cartridge game of Jupiter Lander. However, it took a … Read more