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I recently bought a pile of broken Commodore 64’s as described in this post. I payed like 35 $ for 7 PCB’s (2 short boards and 4 long boards), 3 cases (2 C64C’s and 1 Breadbox) and 2 working keyboards. Pretty good deal I got there!! Among the … Read more
I just finished working on an Assy No. 250425 longboard. The problem was the standard ‘black screen of death’ and it all ended up with me fooling myself on the way to success. The faultfinding process can be frustrating, annoying and a pain in the … Read more
I recently got my hands on a stack of non-functioning Commmodore 64s cheap off the internet. Buying retro gear like that is always a good way to re-stock the spare parts box and hopefully get some of the machines to work again. This time I was … Read more
A new repair log has been added. This time it was a Breadbox (Assy No. 250425 Rev. A) that needed a helping hand to get going again. The screen was complety black and an excessive amount of soldering was performed before it was brought back … Read more
I got a load of broken breadboxes that needed to be resurrected. Two of them have been fixed and the results have been added to the repair log pages. Both boards were Assy 250407 Rev. B. PCB’s that needed a good clean and some new chips to … Read more
Despite the differences in opinion on the online forums regarding the exchange of the electrolytic capacitors, I always put in new ones when repairing a Commodore 64 board. I do not believe that exchanging them would do any harm to the board besides (hopefully!) prolonging the total life span of … Read more
A friend of mine asked me to do something about the sluggish RESTORE key in one of his Breadboxes. It turns out that on the old longboards of the Commodore 64, the RESTORE key needs to be hit hard to function due to a misdimensioned … Read more
As a supplement to my good old Zip Stik joystick (which I favour over the Competition Pros), I wanted to build a joystick based on hardware known from world of arcade machines. As the electronic componets of such a project is quite simple (actually its basically soldering some … Read more