I finally managed to get my hands on a Commodore 64C with an Assy 250469 Rev. B short board PCB inside. This was the last board I needed to complete my collection of Version E motherboards (Assy 250469 Rev. 3, 4, A, B & B-Games System). I … Read more
I have noticed that the different versions of the Commodore 64C’s have various power LED colors. I do not know if Commodore was consistent with the LED colors of the different board revisions of the Commodore 64C’s, but these are the colors that the power … Read more
I stumbled across an Assy 250469 Rev. 4 shortboard PCB with a different color than the other Revision E boards that I have. This one is green while the rest of my boards are all yellow. I have only seen one green colored Assy 250469 … Read more
Going through my ‘stockpile’ of Commodore 64 bits and pieces, I realized that several 3D printed add-ons have found their way into my precious Commodore 64s. I therefore decided to grab the 3D prints that I have, shoot some photos and describe why 3D prints for the … Read more
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
One of the best visual upgrades for the Commodore 64C has to be the new Kickstarter cases by Dallas Moore. During the campaing I got a transparent and a blue case. Later on I got two beige ones on Ebay and yesterday I got another transparent one. The purchase … 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
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