Here are some other examples: <a href="http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=8711454161308077109" rel="nofollow">http://talk.binarytask.com/task?id=8711454161308077109</a><p>Here are some new keycaps: <a href="http://move.rupy.se/file/blue.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://move.rupy.se/file/blue.jpg</a>
<a href="http://move.rupy.se/file/brown.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://move.rupy.se/file/brown.jpg</a><p>Unfortunately they are a bit fragile:
<a href="http://move.rupy.se/file/fragile.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://move.rupy.se/file/fragile.jpg</a><p>There is also Mechboard64 for a new Cherry-switch keyboard, unfortunately it uses 3D printed adapters.<p>For the CPU you can replace it with this but it has alot of shortcomings: <a href="https://monotech.fwscart.com/MOS_CPU_Replacer_(65108501)/p6083514_21591072.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://monotech.fwscart.com/MOS_CPU_Replacer_(65108501)/p60...</a><p>The CIA, SID and VIC2 are unreplacable... the ARM/FPGA versions don't look or sound anything near the originals.<p>That R1 is too rare to only put sticky heatsinks on it.
I was curious to see where the author sourced a SID chip, perhaps the most prized component of a C64 these days. It's an ARMSID, an ARM-based emulator.<p>I keep thinking I'll pull my C64 out of the attic, but the nostalgia is kind of fading for me at this point. That compact flash cartridge looks really cool, though. I would have loved something like that back in the day.
So glad that of all the various C64s and even more various power supplies I had in the 1980s, none were Bricks of Death. Ignorance is bliss.<p>Great project and write-up!