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It's the PLA, what did I win?
by rzzzt 3y ago
It's the PLA, what did I win?
- 300bps 3y agoEasily 90%+ of the faults on Commodore 64s, especially the early models. My Christmas 1982 model died with a faulty PLA well within the warranty period.
- snvzz 3y agoTrue story: PLA, VIC-II survived, 6510 and SID died. The real takeaway: Do not ever use CBM's C64 PSU. Get a modern one; they're all safe.
- MenhirMike 3y ago> Do not ever use CBM's C64 PSU. Get a modern one; they're all safe. A thousand times this! The C64's PSU is a pretty awful voltage regulator that badly creates two voltages (5V DC and 9V AC, so even two different types), and only gets worse with age, to the point that it overshoots the 5V DC by so much that it fries the chips.