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

Broken C64’s Repaired

I just got this stack of broken and badly discolored Commodore 64C’s from a friend. The cases were made in China, Hong Kong and Germany… The first board is an Assy 250469 Rev. A board that had a broken keyboard – some of the keys … Read more

C64 Case Modding

Montezuma’s Revenge is by far my all time favourite game for the Commodore 64 (link). Maybe it’s because the gameplay is so simple. All you have to do is find keys, open doors, don’t get killed, get to the bottom of the maze, repeat… In … Read more

Montezuma's Revenge for the Commodore 64 on tape. breadbox64.com

Monte’s Rev. on Tape!

My all time favourite game for the Commodore 64 is Montezuma’s Revenge by Parker Brothers! I own the game on diskette but never managed to get a copy of it on tape. After years of searching for it online, I finally found a copy on Ebay! How … Read more