I have been working on my faulty C64 and it appears that something on the board is shorting out. I went over all of the chips with an oscilloscope, and on startup, it resets the chips but then locks up when trying to read the ROM. The five volt regulator after a minute, gets incredibly hot. So hot ...

Could somebody please help me? I'm still unable to solve the blank screen syndrome that my Commodore 64 has. I used an oscilloscope on the Vic chip, and all of the pins have the correct frequency. I personally think it's the character ROM, but I don't know where to find replacement chips at. If I ...

After some research, I have discovered that my commodore 64 is experiencing blank screen syndrome. I put the game cartridge Centipede into it, and after moving the power adapter around, a garbled game screen came up. I switched the computer off, but after that, I couldn't get it to give me that ...

Hello, I have joined this forum because I am having problems with my commodore 64 system. When I got it on ebay, it came with a huge bundle of joysticks, a cassette player, a 5 1/4 floppy drive, and various din cables. It powers up okay, but I have to tilt the power cable slightly down, because the ...