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
This is the Commodore 64 game that I remember playing the most as a kid. I used to play it for hours at a friends house. I think we made it to the 5th or 6th level and then died. Good times! When I picked up the … Read more
I have been wanting to get a copy of the Commodore 64 Game System (C64GS) for quite some time now. However, getting one online is usually expensive (insanely expensive!!) and only very few cartidge game titles can actually be played on the system. A few weeks … Read more
I just bought two beige colored Kickstarter cases from Ebay. I guess, Dallas Moore (the guy who stumbled across the original molds of the Commodore 64C case and decided to make a few batches), made a few extras that he is now selling through his … 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
A couple of days ago I got a bag of LEGO’s from a friend. However, there was no assembly manual in the bag. This is what I was facing: As I had no idea how the pieces should be put together I decided to just – … 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
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