Arctic retro | Commodore VIC20 - Full restoration and future proofing - #ComMAYdore @Arcticretro | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
I got a rather sad looking VIC20 in unknown working condition recently. It turned out to be working, so I did a full restoration and future proofing to make it last 30 more years :)

Contents

0:00 Intro
0:57 Inspection
2:39 Power on
3:11 Diagnostics, demos and games
11:28 Cleaning
21:32 Retrobrighting
24:04 New capacitors
28:17 Video signal adjustment
29:13 Assembling
32:52 Final test and Donkey kong
34:04 Conclusion


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