CRG | Saving a Commodore VIC 20 for CHARITY @CRG | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Back in January of this year, Simon from @gingerhippygaming7962 got in touch to ask if I wanted a challenge. As I'm sure some of you know he had recently cleared out an old warehouse on which the roof had collapsed but under the mess he found a horde of vintage computer and console items.
It took a while to get to me (pesky Irish Sea in the way) but it is here now and it has arrived with perfect timing as it coincides with the Commodore themed charity event being run by Lee from @MoreFunMakingIt.
Lee and a bunch of us here on YouTube #mfmi2024 are getting together to offer items for sale with 100% of the monies raised going to the Befriending scheme - thebefriendingscheme.org.uk/.
So what possible better use could this VIC-20 be put to, it suffered a terrible fate in that place in which it was found. Let's try to save it, try to bring it back and let's hope it raises a lot of funds for the charity.
eBay Listing
ebay.co.uk/itm/176624647379
Other CRG videos relating to this sale
VIC 20 cosmetics - youtu.be/sCkvtFf33_g
Final Expansion 3 - youtu.be/s4mU6cVAIXY
Refurbished PSU - youtu.be/vHJrPBFI4XI
MFMI Links
morefunmakingit.co.uk/mfmi-charity-2024
morefunmakingit.co.uk/ebay2024
Just Giving Donation Link
justgiving.com/page/mfmi2024
CRG Links
CRG-2 - youtube.com/@UCDFfWx7km9M8qRB9x5-_LjQ
CRG Patreon - patreon.com/user?u=13919007
CRG Discord - discord.gg/kx2FS8TSWV
CRG X (Twitter) - twitter.com/YT_CRG
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:55 Just how bad is it
06:22 Cleaning and remove the obviously bad bits
12:28 Thoughts
13:50 New sockets, new parts and testing the rust
16:59 Special Guest
18:34 Moving the wire
19:55 Does it work
21:19 Scoping the problem
24:48 Down the rabbit hole
26:19 Kernal ROM
28:56 Turning to google
30:33 Testing the other board
35:25 Back to the first board with RAM
37:21 Omega Race
40:00 Cleaning
40:48 The reveal
42:06 Story time
43:00 The charity listing
49:17 Other charity links
50:20 Making a donation
Back in January of this year, Simon from @gingerhippygaming7962 got in touch to ask if I wanted a challenge. As I'm sure some of you know he had recently cleared out an old warehouse on which the roof had collapsed but under the mess he found a horde of vintage computer and console items.
It took a while to get to me (pesky Irish Sea in the way) but it is here now and it has arrived with perfect timing as it coincides with the Commodore themed charity event being run by Lee from @MoreFunMakingIt.
Lee and a bunch of us here on YouTube #mfmi2024 are getting together to offer items for sale with 100% of the monies raised going to the Befriending scheme - thebefriendingscheme.org.uk/.
So what possible better use could this VIC-20 be put to, it suffered a terrible fate in that place in which it was found. Let's try to save it, try to bring it back and let's hope it raises a lot of funds for the charity.
eBay Listing
ebay.co.uk/itm/176624647379
Other CRG videos relating to this sale
VIC 20 cosmetics - youtu.be/sCkvtFf33_g
Final Expansion 3 - youtu.be/s4mU6cVAIXY
Refurbished PSU - youtu.be/vHJrPBFI4XI
MFMI Links
morefunmakingit.co.uk/mfmi-charity-2024
morefunmakingit.co.uk/ebay2024
Just Giving Donation Link
justgiving.com/page/mfmi2024
CRG Links
CRG-2 - youtube.com/@UCDFfWx7km9M8qRB9x5-_LjQ
CRG Patreon - patreon.com/user?u=13919007
CRG Discord - discord.gg/kx2FS8TSWV
CRG X (Twitter) - twitter.com/YT_CRG
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:55 Just how bad is it
06:22 Cleaning and remove the obviously bad bits
12:28 Thoughts
13:50 New sockets, new parts and testing the rust
16:59 Special Guest
18:34 Moving the wire
19:55 Does it work
21:19 Scoping the problem
24:48 Down the rabbit hole
26:19 Kernal ROM
28:56 Turning to google
30:33 Testing the other board
35:25 Back to the first board with RAM
37:21 Omega Race
40:00 Cleaning
40:48 The reveal
42:06 Story time
43:00 The charity listing
49:17 Other charity links
50:20 Making a donation
