On the C64 Reloaded boards, all ROM images have been burned into a single EPROM chip. As described by Individual Computers, this ‘…gives some extra space for a second Kernal ROM and a second character set’. As I will be using the C64 Reloaded with my JiffyDOS … 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
I got this floppy disk drive cheap off a guy who bought it in the early 80’s for his business. As his company went out of business before he started to actually use the drive, it was almost like new when I got it. The only thing … Read more
I recently recieved two cases from the Kickstarter campaign for my C64 Reloaded boards. A transparent and a blue one. The blue case will eventually get orange function keys whenever Phase 5 from the Indigogo Campaign have made the new key caps. So I wanted to mod … Read more
Ever wanted to have the coolest door stop of all time? A door stop your (‘nerdy’) friends will envy you for? To have a piece of hardware to show your allegiance to the Commodore 64! This is how my door stop dream came true… I needed … Read more
I have been thinking how to make arcade inspired arts and craft. This is what I have come up with so far… Arcade inspired coat hangers! The coat hangers are all build from MDF boards or laminated chipboards using some 16 or 22 mm T-molds on the edges. … Read more
Some time ago I decided to make another fight stick from my arcade spare parts. You can’t ever get enough fight sticks, so why not make another one for the collection… The stick is build from an oak shelve that I glued together and oiled … Read more
I recently managed to make a ‘regular’ fight stick for the PC/XBox 360/PS3 using an oak shelve that I glued together and used a table saw and a router to trim the sides. I used an Akishop PS360+ board, a Sanwa JLF joystick and 30mm Seimitsu buttons on top … Read more