I hereby declare you not a tech hobbyist, but a god damn Commodore Surgeon. That poor thing was a straight up bio hazard on par with Chernobyl or 3 Mile Island... You're a brave man indeed...
As an electronic engineering technician I would have looked twice before attempting this at all, but that is why you have this lovely channel and not all of us ... clever ! must remember this :D
This....warms my heart. It really does. I have so many happy memories with the C64 so seeing one that has been treated so badly be restored is a wonderful thing. Thank you Peri! You and the whole fractic family. Fractimily? Fractily? Framily? Hmm, yeah, Framily.
Well, retro recipes actually has a incentive to buy a trashed commodore over a mint commodore. He can make content with that. might be why the price was steeper.
Looks like this machine was stored in a damp basement, or a basement that had flooded a few times ( my C64c has rust as well but no where near this level, and it still works, those cobwebs look like mold to me
Thank you for your video. It's been quite a trip down memory lane. I am a retired school board technician who has repaired thousands of commodore products. Our school board spent millions of dollars purchasing c64s peripherals every year and their failure rates were very high. I remember I had a coffee can full of defective ICs that weighed about 5 lbs. I can hear the diagnostic sound wave in my head to this day. Thank you again for the nostalgia. I'm happily retired now and never touching a computer again. 😉 Lol. Fantastic videos.
I'm amazed!!!!! This actually brought a tear to my eyes. Thank you!!!! I love my C64, 1541 drives & 1702 monitor that I got for Xmas 1983 when I was 15 (monitor in 1984 upgrading from a 12 inch B&W TV). I still use them all the time (well not the two 1541so much since getting a Ultimate - II+). Now starting week 4 of Ohio's stay at home order and have been very stressed, but your video just took me away from that for a bit and has made me feel good. Great Job and thank you again!!!
I really, really love your channel. Your calm and soothing voice, the way you present stuff, the humour, the professional editing - and Retro stuff! Pure gold! Please keep doing what you're doing (have been binge watching your videos in this quarantine even more).
When I found out that you make your own music for this, I was even more impressed with the production on this channel. Absolutely fantastic work and great content to boot!
Probably time to courier another rasp Pi and random case to 4 or 5 you tubers again to improve each time Maybe a Retro Recipes custom designed 3D printed case. Something funky like...opening a cookbook...opening the book cover reveals the keyboard.
Long time/first time. Being stuck at home 24/7, seeing a video like this pop up is sheer joy to make this stressful time more bearable. The classic breadbin C64 was my first computer, and still my favorite (you never forget your first love...). Seeing you and others like 8Bit Guy restoring and caring for these, it really brings me back to my early teen years spending hours typing in hex programs from Compute's Gazette, coding in machine language, or just playing millions of games. You and the whole 'Fractic family are some much fun, keep it up!
Turning a hunk of junk into a beautiful representation of days gone by. Your passion and attention to detail are astounding. Keep up the good work we old heads appreciate everything you and the rest of our retro community do.
Absolutely superb job... incredible. I can't believe it. My wife said 'There is no way he is going to get it working.'... Twenty minutes later, the video is over and we are gobsmacked.
Stunning job. A C64 (C I think) was the first computer my parents bought us back in the 80's, followed not too long after by an A500, and then an Amiga each for my 2 brothers and then me (an A1200 - which I still have to this day - although its not currently working). Love the channel.
great job sir! It truly is amazing how it is even possible, it just goes to show how much care and love you put into it!! it beings a tear to the eyes of this old guy who grew up with a 64c
Just watched to the end... an excellent job there on putting that back in working order... the length of the video really doesn't convey how much time that must have taken!
Hey Peri... Another awesome video. I would of loved to have seen more of the actual work being performed but still was great to see how it turned out in the end.. thanks for posting.
I think Pete is in the UK and Chris in the US. Pete takes pictures of his work, sends the pics to Chris and Chris uses them for making cool videos like this.
Old stuff are amazing. I sent for repairs a Trinitron with a bunch of popped caps, and it was still working with minors hiccups, but my VGA monitor straight up refuses to work if it's not on shape. A simple machine can deal with everything, but only a good hand like you can make them beautiful again while they return to top shape
Amazing job. Very inspiring. I suppose the relatively simple nature of these machines is part of what makes it possible for them to survive such terrible treatment, but it's incredible nonetheless.
Never thought I’d see a computer worse than the 8-bit guy’s Vic-20 but here we are... now time to see this restored! Just finished watching. Incredible.
Amazing job Peri restoring this C64 to full health again. I was honestly flabbergasted when I saw you fixing the plastic stress marks with the heat gun. Awesome work and great video!
This was a crazy restore. I know old computer and systems can go through a lot and survive but man that one had gone through a lot more than others. Glad to see you saved it from the dump
It's amazing how resilient these old 64"s can be. A couple years ago I was buying broken 64's off eBay just to bring them back to life. Some were nasty as I thought but man nothing as nasty as the one you just worked on. The most problematic issue I ran into was with the PLA's so much so I have as many spare PLA as I do CIA chips.
Great job on the restoration. Certainly beyond my amount of patience:). This can be dialed a final notch up by doing some electroplating in your garage. Thumbs up.
I never would've thought something this far gone could be rescued, great work! Though, the eBay price seemed a bit absurd considering how destroyed the machine was, don't you think? Also, Ladyfractics robotic "welcome" was a little terrifying! Tell her not to haunt my nightmares, please!
Haha I'll pass that message along! As for the price, we were looking at the big picture and the thought of saving this. Plus it was a lot of fun and very rewarding. Not to mention that small price to provide a lot of happiness for this great community. 😊
Very Cool! I also do restoration work of vintage hifi. When I am restoring something I find myself wondering to who it first belong to and that it was someones pride and joy. That C64 was once a kids present and he must had been so happy with it. You did an awesome job!
OK, this is crazy. If I saw that thing lying dead over there, I would definitely believed "it's a goner". Well done mate! On another note, I watched BBC's Micro Men yesterday and thought about RetroRecipes. Now you have me thinking about all those bargain grabs I could have picked up from the open markets in West Yorkshire. Pity I was a poor student... Loved the Speccy load screen by the way. I wonder if you can make a tutorial on making our own, probably a dump idea.
WOW I thought the Atari 800 restoration was the absolute worst 8 Bit computer restoration ever! I really live for these types of restoration video's, learned alot, will be saving this video and watching again, I love being a patreon of this channel. Please keep the restoration vids coming.
I have to admit, I'm impressed. The outside looks absolutely beautiful... okay, compared to the way it looked when it arrived, the entire thing is beautiful. I'm rather surprised that the only thing that had to be replaced (not counting the capacitors, keyboard springs, screws, and screw mounts) was the RF modulator and the PLA.
@@retrohaxblog Oh? I don't recall that being mentioned, but at one point I was distracted by my cat, who insisted on bellyrubs, so I probably didn't hear it because my attention was divided. It isn't really surprising, though, considering its original state.
Loved watching this. Only thing missing was running some test-games after the refurb and especially hearing that sid chip chirp. Unless all IC's had to be discarded of course. :)
Yeah, I don't think we even saw the cursor flash. I was hoping for a game to be shown with sound, but regardless, it was an excellent job they did on it.
And he mentions that yellowing is not just caused by light! I have said this a few times on Facebook Commodore 64/128 group. Its down to changes in the environment "warm, cold, light and dark etc" Anyway good job on the C64C, I like fixing things but I'm sure I would of give that C64 a wide birth.
Iv'e seen those web-like structures on components before. Someone must have been running experiments calculating PI with this machine. The poor thing clearly became sentient just before destroying itself.
Absolutely fantastic !! You brought the computer back to life !! I always follow your videos, very inspiring. I also like old computers and video games. Greetings from Brazil. :)
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I hereby declare you not a tech hobbyist, but a god damn Commodore Surgeon. That poor thing was a straight up bio hazard on par with Chernobyl or 3 Mile Island...
You're a brave man indeed...
Nice work, Drygol!
@Dr ROLFCOPTER! He is a voice actor. Look up Christian Simpson. :)
As an electronic engineering technician I would have looked twice before attempting this at all, but that is why you have this lovely channel and not all of us ... clever ! must remember this :D
LadyRecovered's 'Welcome' was kind of freaky and it's not even Halloween👻
She's a little bit too good at playing an android.
Yea, I loved it! (Except the blinking, I think it's more android like to not blink at all ;)
It sure spooked meeee
This....warms my heart. It really does. I have so many happy memories with the C64 so seeing one that has been treated so badly be restored is a wonderful thing. Thank you Peri! You and the whole fractic family. Fractimily? Fractily? Framily? Hmm, yeah, Framily.
This is just incredibly satisfying to watch 😌 What an amazing job, saving this poor C64. Seeing it completely restored in the end is just.. relaxing.
17:15 makes me so happy to see. I come back to this video often to enjoy this work of art restoration,
I'm back! XD
I thought the fleabay-price was rather steep, considering the condition. Impressive refurb!
Thank you sir :)
It WAS an auction after all. People bid it up to such a steep price.
Well, retro recipes actually has a incentive to buy a trashed commodore over a mint commodore. He can make content with that. might be why the price was steeper.
Looks like this machine was stored in a damp basement, or a basement that had flooded a few times ( my C64c has rust as well but no where near this level, and it still works, those cobwebs look like mold to me
Pretty sure that was a species of mould/fungus. Very cool either way
Michael O Callaghan not even funny. Just no. Go back under your rock and never come back
@@darthrevan2063 dude it was just a joke😁
Thank you for your video. It's been quite a trip down memory lane. I am a retired school board technician who has repaired thousands of commodore products. Our school board spent millions of dollars purchasing c64s peripherals every year and their failure rates were very high. I remember I had a coffee can full of defective ICs that weighed about 5 lbs. I can hear the diagnostic sound wave in my head to this day. Thank you again for the nostalgia. I'm happily retired now and never touching a computer again. 😉 Lol. Fantastic videos.
Man, Perifractic is out here living his best life. Good for him.
I'm amazed!!!!! This actually brought a tear to my eyes. Thank you!!!! I love my C64, 1541 drives & 1702 monitor that I got for Xmas 1983 when I was 15 (monitor in 1984 upgrading from a 12 inch B&W TV). I still use them all the time (well not the two 1541so much since getting a Ultimate - II+). Now starting week 4 of Ohio's stay at home order and have been very stressed, but your video just took me away from that for a bit and has made me feel good. Great Job and thank you again!!!
I really, really love your channel. Your calm and soothing voice, the way you present stuff, the humour, the professional editing - and Retro stuff! Pure gold! Please keep doing what you're doing (have been binge watching your videos in this quarantine even more).
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️ I will definitely keep making videos 😊
I felt a lump in my throat when you showed off the state it was in and nearly in tears when you brought it back from the brink. Great video!
Thanks :) More details on my retrohax.net blog
Fantastic job! One more old soldier to keep marching on. I bet if Jack T. were still alive, he'd be proud of that C= 64 refurb.
The white fibers are hyphae. They're sort of like the root system of fungi.
i was wondering, thanks.
Hyphae, have not heard that word in years!
if i had to guess even deeper into it - perhaps it is the asexual form (anamorph) of an ascomycota member
Nice👌👌👌
Sounds like it was outdoors for a long period of time, so exposed to water - but not on the ground where water could pool.
This video is pure joy! I just feel happiness after seeing it fully restored. Congrats for an awesome job!
I really love this episode. Old forgotten Commodore 64, got a new life. Amazing! Lets see ANY of these new computers survive like that!
I am blown away. I really feared you'd get halfway through the board and find it was beyond hope! Well done.
Thanks :) Naaah, nothing is unrefurbishable lol :D
When I found out that you make your own music for this, I was even more impressed with the production on this channel. Absolutely fantastic work and great content to boot!
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
YAY. This is the content type I subbed for originally!
Probably time to courier another rasp Pi and random case to 4 or 5 you tubers again to improve each time
Maybe a Retro Recipes custom designed 3D printed case. Something funky like...opening a cookbook...opening the book cover reveals the keyboard.
Mmm...
...custom RR Pi.
Long time/first time. Being stuck at home 24/7, seeing a video like this pop up is sheer joy to make this stressful time more bearable. The classic breadbin C64 was my first computer, and still my favorite (you never forget your first love...). Seeing you and others like 8Bit Guy restoring and caring for these, it really brings me back to my early teen years spending hours typing in hex programs from Compute's Gazette, coding in machine language, or just playing millions of games. You and the whole 'Fractic family are some much fun, keep it up!
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
It tear me up, Peri. Commodore restoration is something beautiful to watch. Thank you for making awesome videos like this!
Cheers from Portugal. 🇵🇹😎👍
Currently having a fairly severe asthma attack and your voice alone is calming me down.
Thank you. Subbed.
Turning a hunk of junk into a beautiful representation of days gone by. Your passion and attention to detail are astounding. Keep up the good work we old heads appreciate everything you and the rest of our retro community do.
Thank you sir :)
Superb work. Love all the little pearls you provided like the graphite in pencil lead. Never knew that trick.
Absolutely superb job... incredible. I can't believe it. My wife said 'There is no way he is going to get it working.'... Twenty minutes later, the video is over and we are gobsmacked.
Haha! Thank you sir :D
Stunning job. A C64 (C I think) was the first computer my parents bought us back in the 80's, followed not too long after by an A500, and then an Amiga each for my 2 brothers and then me (an A1200 - which I still have to this day - although its not currently working). Love the channel.
Thank you!
great job sir! It truly is amazing how it is even possible, it just goes to show how much care and love you put into it!! it beings a tear to the eyes of this old guy who grew up with a 64c
Just watched to the end... an excellent job there on putting that back in working order... the length of the video really doesn't convey how much time that must have taken!
Yeah for a project of this big I was expecting at least a 30 minutes video.
Another one saved from the landfill! Love the trick with the graphite from a pencil as I have had to do that a few times. Cheers on a Great Refurb!
That Dog absolutely adores that guy !!!!!
46 pounds for something in that state!? People really wanted to save this thing.
Correct :D We really wanted to fix it :D
Hey Peri... Another awesome video. I would of loved to have seen more of the actual work being performed but still was great to see how it turned out in the end.. thanks for posting.
I think Pete is in the UK and Chris in the US. Pete takes pictures of his work, sends the pics to Chris and Chris uses them for making cool videos like this.
Amazing job. It put a real smile on my face seeing that poor little computer looking so good at the end and working!
Restorations are always a blast to me, especially coming from yall. You restore some of the craziest restorations I'll ever see.
Thats one hell of a job. Unbelievable that the C=64 came out that good looking 🤩
Old stuff are amazing. I sent for repairs a Trinitron with a bunch of popped caps, and it was still working with minors hiccups, but my VGA monitor straight up refuses to work if it's not on shape.
A simple machine can deal with everything, but only a good hand like you can make them beautiful again while they return to top shape
That's some amazing work, what a fantastic restoration! Great to see another one saved. Stay safe, Fractics.
Amazing job. Very inspiring. I suppose the relatively simple nature of these machines is part of what makes it possible for them to survive such terrible treatment, but it's incredible nonetheless.
Absolutely Amazing, You have earned your Commodore P.H.D. with this thesis
Lol! Thank you :D
Happy to see more restoration vids, keep it up!
Superb excellent fantastique! The poor lil computer looked like it went through the trash compactor and was buried in a landfill before you saved it.
Never thought I’d see a computer worse than the 8-bit guy’s Vic-20 but here we are... now time to see this restored!
Just finished watching. Incredible.
Thx :)
Amazing job Peri restoring this C64 to full health again. I was honestly flabbergasted when I saw you fixing the plastic stress marks with the heat gun. Awesome work and great video!
Thank you sir :D more details on retrohax.net :)
I think I'm going to play your theme song whenever I fix an old computer.
Do it.
This was a crazy restore. I know old computer and systems can go through a lot and survive but man that one had gone through a lot more than others. Glad to see you saved it from the dump
There was something somewhat touching about this. Well done
The Bob Ross of Commodore 64s
It's just a happy little accident 🎨🕹️
It's amazing how resilient these old 64"s can be. A couple years ago I was buying broken 64's off eBay just to bring them back to life. Some were nasty as I thought but man nothing as nasty as the one you just worked on. The most problematic issue I ran into was with the PLA's so much so I have as many spare PLA as I do CIA chips.
Great job on the restoration. Certainly beyond my amount of patience:). This can be dialed a final notch up by doing some electroplating in your garage. Thumbs up.
I never would've thought something this far gone could be rescued, great work! Though, the eBay price seemed a bit absurd considering how destroyed the machine was, don't you think?
Also, Ladyfractics robotic "welcome" was a little terrifying! Tell her not to haunt my nightmares, please!
Haha I'll pass that message along! As for the price, we were looking at the big picture and the thought of saving this. Plus it was a lot of fun and very rewarding. Not to mention that small price to provide a lot of happiness for this great community. 😊
This is my favorite kind of your content! I'm blown away!
Great job! The results are just amazing! Love this type of content, and getting to see the Fractic family interact is always welcome.
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
Just watching this made me miss my old c64. Top video you guys and I loved the end result 😊😊
Simply an amazing restore. I thought for sure it was lost.
Wow
What a transformation. Brilliant video and amazing work to the C64
Your voice is so relaxing... relaxing... I, uh... must... repair... Commodore computers...
Another Fractic Tastic video! Really well done!
That is absolutely amazing, I did not think that board had a chance! Thank you for great videos, especially these days, we very much appreciate them.
As we all know, PCB stands for Puppy Can Bark...doesn't it? 😉
This is like the C64 equivalent of one of those AMMO NYC barn find detailing videos.
Amazing work. And those puns... with you is quarantain always better :) I dont know why, but your songs and work make me cry :D
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
I will always love my Commodore 64‼️😩 I miss it so much‼️
It's amazing to the mushroom mycelium (the white web/tendril looking stuff) growing on the PCB. It almost looks like it's following the traces.
Finally we have a name for that stuff!
Absolutely loved this video - more like it please! This channel is fantastic. Thank you :)
Thank you for your kind words! Means a lot 👍🕹️
Very Cool! I also do restoration work of vintage hifi. When I am restoring something I find myself wondering to who it first belong to and that it was someones pride and joy. That C64 was once a kids present and he must had been so happy with it. You did an awesome job!
I am still concerned there was no flashing cursor, but omfg, fact it even shows anything is amazing.
That was a photo :-)
You can coat the metal shrouds with flux and run solder on them. They will look much better
Essentially its like car bodywork (retinning)
OK, this is crazy. If I saw that thing lying dead over there, I would definitely believed "it's a goner". Well done mate! On another note, I watched BBC's Micro Men yesterday and thought about RetroRecipes. Now you have me thinking about all those bargain grabs I could have picked up from the open markets in West Yorkshire. Pity I was a poor student... Loved the Speccy load screen by the way. I wonder if you can make a tutorial on making our own, probably a dump idea.
Hey, i see You had a tons of work, but result is outstanding. Great job !!
Lovely to see a neglected 8bit restored to it's former glory where most people might of thought it was beyond saving. The end result looks fantastic.
The seller needs to comment on this I would love to see their reaction.
WOW I thought the Atari 800 restoration was the absolute worst 8 Bit computer restoration ever! I really live for these types of restoration video's, learned alot, will be saving this video and watching again, I love being a patreon of this channel. Please keep the restoration vids coming.
Thank you for your kind words and support! It really means a lot 👍🕹️ Be sure to swing by retrohax.net for any parts you need too.
I have to admit, I'm impressed. The outside looks absolutely beautiful... okay, compared to the way it looked when it arrived, the entire thing is beautiful. I'm rather surprised that the only thing that had to be replaced (not counting the capacitors, keyboard springs, screws, and screw mounts) was the RF modulator and the PLA.
Oh, not only that :D CPU and RAM chips were fried plus quite a few other minor parts ;)
@@retrohaxblog Oh? I don't recall that being mentioned, but at one point I was distracted by my cat, who insisted on bellyrubs, so I probably didn't hear it because my attention was divided. It isn't really surprising, though, considering its original state.
Superb work hard to believe it could turn out so well in the end.
Loved watching this. Only thing missing was running some test-games after the refurb and especially hearing that sid chip chirp. Unless all IC's had to be discarded of course. :)
Yeah, I don't think we even saw the cursor flash. I was hoping for a game to be shown with sound, but regardless, it was an excellent job they did on it.
Amazing job, my dude. Really a truly amazing job!
The Titanic had an Amiga on it? I'll be here all week. :)
And he mentions that yellowing is not just caused by light! I have said this a few times on Facebook Commodore 64/128 group. Its down to changes in the environment "warm, cold, light and dark etc" Anyway good job on the C64C, I like fixing things but I'm sure I would of give that C64 a wide birth.
Ha! that is what I also always emphasize on my blog retrohax.net. It is not the sun that is the main cause of yellowing.
Correct!
Nice repair on C64
Greetings from Zagreb City (Croatia)
After all that poor C64 has been through, I’m amazed it still worked in the end! Nice job!
Thank you :)
Damn guys.. you are good. I didn't expect that this will turn up so well. Good job!
Absolute superb restoration. I like the bent wire idea to replace those pesky broken clips, may have to try that on my C64
Thanks, however, next time I will 3D print proper replacement brackets :D
C64c looks awesome compared to before. Great clean and very good restoration.
That was absolutely amazing refurb well done does not seem enough to say
It's great, and of course with that legendary sound you got even more beautiful
So satisfying to see another 64 saved :) Thanks for the video!
Love this! Totally awesome refurbishment! :-) Thumbs up! Greetings from Denmark!
WOW!!!! That was amazing. Congratulations.
You guys, you're the "Herbert West" of 8 bit PC!!! ;) RIP Stuart Gordon, long live C-64!!!
Cheerio.
Thanks! :D
Loose knockers penetrating oil?
I've got to talk to my wife about this...
Iv'e seen those web-like structures on components before. Someone must have been running experiments calculating PI with this machine. The poor thing clearly became sentient just before destroying itself.
Absolutely fantastic !! You brought the computer back to life !! I always follow your videos, very inspiring. I also like old computers and video games.
Greetings from Brazil. :)
Greetings from California! Hope you guys are doing good there 👍🕹️
take my hat off to you, that was dam awesome, didn't think you could pull that one off bro
That was officially the work of genius.. I'm sure you used some kind of Commodore wizardry this upload was amazing
Nah, not genius, I am just a garage amateur ;)
WOW amazing job! This was fantastic! more vids like this please!
I hope everyone finds someone who loves you as much as that dog loves Perifractic.
When unscrewing old rusty screws, try this trick:
Use something to hammer the end of the screwdriver when turning. And if it doesn't turn and you are starting to destroying the head of the screw, try tightening it just a bit. This can loosen rust that is lodged between the threads, which causes friction.
Probably not a good idea to take a hammer to something that is this fragile though... But good tip otherwise.
I’m speechless! That was really amazing... fancy recapping my 2 😜
If anything deserves the Nobel Prize, it's this refurb.