As far as I know, there are modern replacements for nearly all of the Commodore custom chips now.  You may want to look into seeking them out for a later video.

@0:54 re the zx81 spectrum looks, I am thoroughly convinced you could just glue it to a white lab coat and then convincingly pass yourself off as a robot to any child of the 60s/70s.

I always get a little tingle when I see a C64 boot up, 8 years of my life back in the 80ies.

When the silicon shortage will ease, I suggest trying to get hold of one of Randy Rossi's 'Kawari' VIC-II replacements.
The work done by Randy Rossi is phenomenal. I suggest to check out his channel.

Finally a video from somebody who really knows how to solder. I have seen so many videos from people who absolutely can't solder at all. Well done.

3 yrs later this videos come my way and the c64 was the first computer I played it was my late  dads and I think im going have to have a crack at building one to relive early childhood. With my boys

Such warm memories of my C64!  Learned machine language, raster interrupts, binary logic, etc. from that machine.  Built my own line drawing and region filling routines in machine language in my mid teens.  Today some icons require more RAM than was available in all of the 4 banks the C64 had.

Brings back so many memories as I worked for a company from 97-2007 that developed everything in the 80’s.  It all worked and reliable.  Things changed with digital audio and allowed any schmuck that programmed to buy stuff off the shelf.  The death of analog computer audio distribution.

Great to see a new c64 come to life. Would love to see a follow up where you birth a new c64 using all brand-new parts. I'm more than happy to see FPGA or any other type of substitute for parts that are no longer available.

came here by accident, was not disappointed. subbed!

I bought the original ZX80 kit and built it at school in my Technology class and after building it it did not work, both me and my teacher tried to problem search it without success ( we suspected a faulty Z80) so I sent it to Sinclair for repair and they sent a brand new kit back with no explanation or paperwork and about 3 weeks later my original build came back working as well, I loved that little thing!

Very cool to see one built brand new, and remember playing that game back in the 80s.

Cool build! I can almost smell the solder smoke. Greetings from Missouri, USA

Awesome job! Your soldering skills are top class. :D Really satisfying to watch.

This was a very good video. I know nothing about this topic, but was captivated the entire time.

Thanks for the video. It was nail biting at times. I am glad you figure out what was wrong with the build. Happens to the best of us!

No wonder it's the been a popular episode, it is also a good note on the 225 Basic version.

Retro8bitshop is watching! And loving your shout out and work!

Great work! Interesting notes regarding Rev B and differences. I'll update the github repo for this pcb  project and mention it 👍

Sometimes I think about buying one. It reminds me of my childhood and youth, when everything was still simpler and my head was full of dreams and possibilities. I never owned a C64 myself, but when I wanted to buy one, I discovered the Amiga 500 in the shop – it was the new C64. If it really came out again, I think I would take it. You can also get the feeling from an emulator, but it's not just the software that makes it special, it's also the feel of the hardware. It's great that you've rebuilt it, I'm proud of you!