no computer ever wanted to live as badly as this commodore

every geek shed a tear of joy in unison.

The “no sound “ issue on the RF modulator might be due to carrier frequency out of sync. One of those variable inductors may be broken or just out of adjustment. I remember having seen a very similar repair on a spectrum computer by a guy from England. To bad I can’t remember the name. Anyway he was using a spectrum analyser to see the various frequencies coming out of the RF modulator. So he dialled on those variable inductors until the sound carrier was back where it belonged.

This C64C sure is a surviver. You can rightfully say that your machine did a ten year plus more survival training and survived even nasty ant attacks ;-)

The color mix of those keys looks like art. I actually love it. It looks like it was meant to be that way.

That passion and desire to make such a dirty piece of vintage hardware working again deserves all the thumbs pointing up that it can get!

That is what I call a debugged computer!

I love seeing someone take trash and turn it to gold. I do the same thing on my channel. Keep it up!

This computer needs to have you demo Ant Attack on it.

At first I was bummed to see it in a non-clear case... but then I learned that's the original casing, wow! Looks so good. Nice save!

Honest thanks for both parts of this incredible story, Adrian! There's so much to be enjoyed from this.

Brilliant job. Well done mate! It is by far one of the best successful rescue/restoration missions recorded ever in my opinion. I love C64c and I filled with joy seeing one back to life.

This was a beautiful thing you've done. Is awesome to be reminded of this machine. Gettin misty, C64 was my first computer...so was pretty special to see this. And to hear Platoon again, wow! I hummed that (and many other C64 tunes) for decades later!

As a 58 year old, this brings back many happy memories of my youth. The sounds and the graphics of the C64 have never left me. Thank you for a great video.

Very interesting project. This is quite the restoration you've done here. It's impressive how resilient some of this old hardware can be. You've got a new sub in me, I hope there are many more cool restoration/mod videos for me to watch on this channel.

I'm completly impressed by your work!

Thanks, great video! As a viewer I could feel your love to detail and passion for this project. Very inspiring. I'll also look more for findings like this. There's probably still a quite huge numbers of classic commodore computers out there, rotting and forgotten. Greetings from Germany! :-)

You’ve done an awesome job! Takes so much patience to do what you do. Thanks for sharing!!

This is just unbelievable! Very nice work!

I like the clear case idea. That's amazing that this is still working so well and how you made it look.

I picked a TV/VCR 13" from the rain over two days of that system. I felt so sorry for it and I had no CRT/TV I took it home and after 2 months indoors and many times changing side to rest on it worked! It did have game/video jacks and my C64c worked on RF and video in! Now I have a nice retro 100% system. That was fun!

That's just spectacular. Honestly, I love the little wabi-sabi of having the different colored keys. So great to see these old machines given love, especially ones that have been left ignored for so long.

You put so much love into this project! Kudos

Wow! It is incredible that computer still works after enduring the elements outside for so many years. Great job on the restoration!

Unbelievable! Incredible job done, Sir! 💪🏾🙏🏽

I am by no means a Commodore person, but i stumbled across this video and was completely compelled to watch both videos on this C64. I find it great to see any old computer that's a survivor regardless of brand. Maybe I'll even pick up a C64 someday if I come across one :)

I congratulate you for this amazing job!. I learned to code in one of these machines :).

Great job! Is very rewarding to see a survivor C64C getting so much love to be in service again. Definitely inspiring... thanks ...

Only just found this video, incredible that this C64 wants to Live! Plus - That intro music is amazing!

Ah Commodore, where I started. Had a Vic 20, then a C-64. All the games, and the BBSes. So many memories.

It was a great follow up video to watch. Please keep us updated on this project.

This is awesome :) So happy to see this machine restored and loved!

Amazing stuff. I also see you have a video that fixes the RF audio. I'm very impressed how this Commodore survived. I think this represents the C64 community. No matter what, we are still going strong. Thanks for sharing.

I just restored a Hayes 1200 smartmodem that was in a leaky shed. Muriatic acid is what i used to remove corrosion from the sircuit board, the aluminum case is anodized and cleaned up easily. With steel parts I have used muriatic acid to clean it or used electrolysis. As protection I like to zinc plate the parts to prevent rust. It is amazing that the Commodore was repairable despite being left outside to rot.

Good work Adrian, you've done that machine a great service. Im quite impressed with your efforts

Oh man! That set up is killing me! I can't even tell you, how much I want your rig!

I remember way back, that to own a commodore 64 was very very cool. Back to the present, I think that to bring one back from the dead as you have, is also very very cool!!!

It is amazing to see that the majority, if not all, of the traces are fine. The PCBs from Commodore really show quality and your video is a testament of that.

That rust on bottom case looks really like a face, so beautiful xP

Awesome restoration dude, you’re very impressive at this.

Was great to see this 64 in action at PDX Commodore Computer Club 2/1/2019, (and meeting you of course Adrian). This little computer is quite a champ.

nice! amazing work! was cool to see you get that old commy working again and looking good as well. :)

Truly awesome seeing this great machine working again.

Somebody have to make a song named "The Legend of the Left for Dead Commodore 64C"

Nice! Amazing that this still works the way it does. That loader on Platoon was one of the first sid tunes i ever heard as I got the Hollywood pack C64C for my 15th birthday. It brought back fond memories of reading ZZAP 64 while I waited for it to load. Really enjoyed both parts of this series, watching you restore this classic computer.

That computer is over 30 years old!! I have a bread box C-64 and C128 and both work fine. When taken care of they will last forever!!!!! Great video

That's super sick. Great job man!

Wowza! That's an amazing restore!

Damn you are skilled at what you do. So relaxing to watch you go at it. +++++

I left a comment on your last video saying you should do exactly this, this is awesome.

Great video ! Love the C 64. So many great memories

Ha! I have that exact same Harbor Freight screwdriver over at the work table where I've been taking apart and restoring C64s for the past several months. Outstanding work on this C64...it looks damn near good as new.

I was just watching the C64 video where you cleaned it out and made it work, now to watch this. Was thinking ''he should restore it that would be awesome'' . Nice follow up brahh

bless ya 4 crediting the composers and name the tunes 2!

Above and beyond the call of duty. Wonderful work. Thanks for saving an awesome machine.

Thumbs up! You are a true HERO, resurrecting this long time gone C=64 from death!

Love those key colours..Nice to see another commodore brought to life.

I'm thinking the Commodore was Jedi Mind controlling you to resurrect it. After all that work, it is a special machine well worth keeping. Thank you for keeping the spirit of the Commodore 64 alive!

Nice job! It is heartening that these computers will be around long after I am gone.

Nice job bro. Brings back alot of memories from school.

You made me cry thank you for bring it back .

My mom used to program quick little games for me to play with a C64! Love how you resurrected this one!

Awesome work Adrian !! 👍

Regardless to whether it lasts another twenty years or not... this Commodore 64 came back from the dead and thanks to your upload will be remembered for as long as there’s KZfaq. Good job, I enjoyed watching this 👍

Awesome job, the keyboard`s fine I think as this c64 has really been through the wars it's almost like tattoos or scars of its past, cool.

Kinda like the multi-coloured key pattern on the keyboard. Looks neat. I also remember many different Ocean games having that stuttering when you scrolled left, instead of right. Nice video all around. Looks great on the outside, and did pretty good with the insides, given its original condition.

I really like the different colour keys. They are like battle scars :) absolutely love that this is still working!

Great restoration work man...

Love the music sounds awesome like almost every 80's doctor who episode or the bards tale

Fantastic job! I'd love to try restoring old tech like this, problem is it's either harder to find one that nobody wants or hard to repair the hardest ones nobody wants - especially for a beginner. But I'm not giving up yet!

Fantastic job. It lives on!

This makes me so happy. This thing wanted to live so much.

That should be donated to a microcomputer museum. It's a totally unique C64 which stubbornly refused to die despite it's pitiful neglect. Great work. I even love the black keys, they make it stand out at a glance from any other C64 and make it instantly recognisable as the 'ant colony C64'. It wouldn't suprise me to hear that some C64 owners may end up customising their own machines to look like this one. I wouldn't replace them. Thanks for sharing.

Nice Restoration for historical demonstrations. I remember those early systems frustrating me, they were so hard to work with.

Great effort Adrian, well done! :)

Loved your video and the success...I had a commodore way back when

Love it! Great job

Great choice to leave some motherboard "patina" as it preserves the unique history of this Commodore 64.

Brilliant work

This was an amazing project!

Great work!

Really cool story. Nice to see how reliable the motherboard/keyboard are. Funny thing --I kept my own old C-64 which still works, but stopped using it back in 88 after the disk drive failed. I never did obtain another disk drive...just moved on to an Amiga & never looked back.:) Now I know that my C-64 probably still works...I just need a disk drive if I ever want to use it again. :)

Thank you for saving this beauty!

I definitely got the vibes of the film 'Batteries Not Included' with these two videos. You don’t have any funny little aliens living on your roof do you? Hand Tools Rescue swears by Evaporust, but he’s working with 100 year old metal tools. A brilliant couple of videos, very well done indeed.

I would have been able to give you a complete keyboard from a commodore 64 that had a cracked motherboard that got stepped on by me when I was drunk trying to fix it. But the keyboard was good, all the IC chips we're good including the ones that I had to desolder from the board. I could have even supplied people with actual electronic components that I desoldered from the motherboard that was completely split down the middle. Would be nice to see that restored Commodore with a computer keyboard that was original. Bravo on your restoration dude Bravo.

I am a new sub been catching up love your content 😊👍 I was rooting for that little commodore 64

Great stuff Sir.

Thanks for saving another part of history ❤️

Awesome! Nice restoration

It is a UK game written for the UK market. Ocean Software were based in Manchester, England - so it is a PAL game, so it may be related to any glitches in the game on an NTSC system, however, your VIC-II chip may not be 100% after being out in the wilderness for years.. it may be best to run a diag cartridge or keep testing with other games to test for more glitches..

Wonderful chiptune intro!

Fantastic seeing you resurrect that old gal. Some people might ask why you put so much time into bringing her back, but those people didn't grow up in the 80s.

Nice work!

It is not the best aproach for removing rust. Mine is not eighter. Though I removed a slightly bigger stain on my a500 rev.3 bottom case. I used dishwashing soap. The kind you use for doing dishes by hand. A lot of luke warm water, and some standard rubbing alcohol. Submerged it, and scrubbed, using a soft nylon sponge. For the hard parts, I used the hard side of the sponge. And for the extremely tricky parts, I had to gently scrape with a short kitchen knife that has a really stiff blade. Made shure I only scraped on the rust it self. The complete process took me some 4 hours of straight work. I managed to remove nearly 100 percent rust. I think 1 or 2 percent is left.

IT SO BEAUTIFUL AND LOOKS COMPLETELY MINT AAAAAAAA I LOVE THIS VIDEO

Really is the stuff of legends. Fantastic resto mate! I'd personally love to see sub logics flight simulator running on it. You know it's complete when it runs a flight simulator!

Excellent work restoring that poor machine :) First order of business for me when ever I get a board with unknown status is to remove the SID and VIC and test these in a known good machine and then I measure the voltages going to these chips on the unknown status board. This way I don't run the risk of frying good chips due to possible shorts or other over voltage situations. When I know the voltages are ok I put in the VIC only to test the machine and if it checks out ok then I put the SID in as well.. In fact, I do most of the work on the MoBos without the SID on the board because it sucks to kill a SID.. Don't ask me how I know :) Any how, I really like these videos so you just got another subscriber :)

Amazing Thing, I watched your original video and thought ‘hmm, that’s amazing!’ And then just today, my neighbor was rummaging around in her shed and put out a Ton of rummage out by the sidewalk, and I just happened to walk by to go check the mailbox; and I was like, ‘is that an MPS-802 dot matrix?’ and it WAS! Horribly filthy, but at least not left out to the sun, rain, and dirt- just a tremendous amount of garage dirt and mouse droppings. I also noticed a 1541 and power block in the bottom. Walked the dogs to the slushy store and mailbox and back, the CBM stuff is still there! So I put the dogs out back and liberated the Commodore stuff, got a complete C64 (grey function keys), 1541 with door closed on a diskette (hope the head is still clean!), Boss joystick, and the MPS-802 minus cover and wire tray. YES! 5 mins later a white camaro pulls up and grabs everything else. So far, did a fairly thorough Simple Green treatment on the exterior, saw the power LED light up (no RGB cable), ran the printer self-test. I think I might have a completely working system! Thanks for putting out this video, otherwise I might have passed it by as a basket case!!

Great and interesting video, thanks for saving another C64 :)

Great job!