R ob Taylor has 'reverse engineered' the C64 board and is selling his modern re-creations. They are truly a thing of beauty. Of course you can use one to replace a bad board in a C64. But you can also use one to build a new C64. Bob still has plenty of boards left in three revisions and various colours . Why did I start this? I love using real hardware, just as I have done since '81. There's something about working directly with the actual hardware, a feeling that was lost for me in the 16-bit era, when we became more 'distanced' from the silicon. I will always have and use all-original machines, they won't sit on a shelf to be looked at. But as a daily-driver, putting frequent stress on those old components bothered me. We have to make up our own minds about emulation. It has its place for me but it's not the same. TheC64 is only a small step up from there (for me). I held off from the Ultimate and Reloaded for different reasons. After replacing ...