
The two large chips on the bottom left are the Input/Output control chips. If your joysticks stop working, these chips are the likely culprit.
Above those we have the ROM Kernel chips which controlled the BASIC functions that acted as an operating system for the C64.
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whyibother
27/02/2008 09:14 PM
Mine Still Works !! I had to go back to it after I "upgraded" to Vista.
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Tom
18/04/2008 05:42 AM
Though I never owned this machine, I did have the awesome Commodore Amiga 500. Didn't upgrade from it until 1998 ;P
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