Epic Restoration of the Commodore 264 Family-C116, C16 & Plus/4! Can These Be Saved?

[@Charleshawn66]

Thank you for this GREAT Commodore retro content!!! Two years ago, when I bought my plus/4, C16 and C116, 2 of them had dead CPUs. Two years ago, I found 1 from England and 2 from Hungary. I bought all 3 of them and with shipping I spent over $300 for the 3 CPUs so it seems from your search that the prices have come down some from their cost 2 years ago.

[@RacerX-]

I bought 3 Plus 4s years ago and 2 of them had dead CPUs. It has to be Commodores most unreliable CPU ever made. Back then the CPU was $25 which was almost the cost of each Plus 4 then. It will be nice if someone makes a cheap alternative FPGA CPU or ARM CPU or something. Thanks for the great video as always.

[@hollgo626]

Teure Angelegenheit.... Ich würde mich da auf den plus 4 und den c116 konzentrieren, das sind die wirklich teuren Modelle. Zumindest in Europa...

[@moshly64]

CPU's fail a lot more than TED chips, out of the 4x 264's I have 3 had dead CPU's and 1 had a dead TED. CPU replacements, NOS or pulls are a risk (if you do go this rout, look for late 80's date codes). The 6510 & ROM is less compatible than the 6502 board, because of the ROM mods & anything that pokes the IO port directly may not work. Also, it is being over clocked in the 264. However, I used 2 of the 6510 mods to fix my machines and have had no issues (excluding that the tape port not working) The 6502 board should be 100% compatible, I'm not sure why someone was having issues, as long as you use a 2Mhz NMOS chip. even a CMOS chip should be 99%

[@RetroWK]

I will try the 6502 board.

[@joopidema]

There is a cheap replacement for the Commodore TED series PLA from Daniel Mantione who also made the GAL PLA for the C64. It is called the PLA16V8. I used it myself to repair a C16.

[@RetroWK]

Cool! I had a replacement PLA but can‘t recall which one.

[@jeffschaap]

19:23 - I had this same issue... all lower case boot screen and it turned out to be the PLA (NTSC machine).

[@atarimex2643]

You can use a 6510 with an adapter. That’s another option. You can buy the adapter board from pcbway. Still 6510’s are now also expensive

[@senilyDeluxe]

That lowercase TED was tired of shouting for all its life. I wonder what it looks like with games.

[@atarimex2643]

Those machaines also have horrible sockets. Sometimes the chips work with some cleaning and deoxit. Long shot, but still worth doible checking them out.

[@RetroWK]

Yes, I tried that. No luck!