Aldi C64 Blank Screen Repair Part 1

Trying to repair a severely damaged ALDI Commodore 64. Some success and a lot of head scratching along the way. To be continued.

Update: I finally managed to fix the remaining issues after around 2 years! Here's part 2 of this repair:    • Aldi C64 Blank Screen Repair Part 2  

Here's some handy resources I refer to when troubleshooting and repairing C64s:

The Pictorial C64 Fault Guide is here: http://derbian.webs.com/c64diag/

Ray Carlsen's troubleshooting and repair guides are here: http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlse...

You can get the .bin files for various C64 diagnostics cartridges from World of Jani (in case you want to make your own or try in an emulator): http://blog.worldofjani.com/?p=164

Here's the GitHub with Sven's diagnostics harness: https://github.com/svenpetersen1965/C...

The track used for the soldering/timelapse portions of the video is called "Thinkertinker" and was kindly provided by Focus 10 aka Øystein Hansen. Thank you! Check out more of his work here:   / user-993847645  

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