Project Name: Custom C64
Project Owner: MSX
Project Start: 2021
Project Status: Ongoing
The project started from the fact that not a single C64 could be painted normally, so I successfully messed it up. I tried to fix the painting, but it only got worse. I put the project aside and after many months I found a C64 owner who had similarly messed up his machine but had stickered it all off.
I thought, I haven't done this before, so I'll give it a try. I ordered a lot of music stickers, which arrived within 30 days.
The basic concept was to create something new by using an existing synthesizer cartridge, modifying it with audio outputs and stickers, and custom painting the keyboard keys.
The couple of images below reflect where the project was before.
These are pictures of the current state.
I had a hard time finding screws to secure the motherboard and keyboard. In some places, the sticker has loosened and is still loosening now, I am still examining these and sticking them with a different adhesive.
The painting was wrong in some places, I'll fix those too.
The keyboard buttons are currently being painted.
What remains to be done is determining the location of the audio outputs and connecting their cables from the inside to the motherboard.
And of course lots and lots of tests.
