An SX-64 repair finale anchors The Retro Collective's catch-up week
Power-supply gremlins and reassembly finish the Commodore project, with handheld FPGA development also on the viewing shelf.
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Commodore SX-64 Restoration Finale | Trash to Treasure (pt3)
What is there to catch up on while The Retro Collective takes an upload break? A portable Commodore reaching the end of its repair journey is a good place to start. No new videos arrived this week, but "Commodore SX-64 Restoration Finale | Trash to Treasure (pt3)" is the channel's busiest video right now.
The finale tackles the remaining power-supply problems before putting the machine back together. The SX-64 was Commodore's transportable take on the C64, complete with a built-in color display, so there is rather more to this restoration than rescuing a keyboard computer. Posted just before the week's window, the episode has reached roughly 44,000 views.
Elsewhere, "MiSTer FPGA Handheld Console Development | September 2026" offers a different kind of hardware work. Richard's update covers the Multisystem 2 Pocket's case and electronics, alongside arcade hardware, a trackball and dock developments. It is the useful contrast at the heart of this channel: preserving old machines while building new ways to enjoy retro games.
The library added about 79,000 views over the week, while subscribers stayed unchanged. Today's viewing pace is below the channel's usual level. Nearby in subscriber size, LGR Blerbs also had unchanged subscribers and a quieter daily pace; PC BUILD-ASMR and Skylabs Audio each added subscribers over the week.
The third notable draw is "Amiga Tower of Power - A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?", which repairs and assembles an A1200 tower to explore what the machine could offer beyond its original form. Between that conversion, the SX-64 rescue and the Pocket development update, the upload pause leaves three quite different hardware projects to explore.
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Which classic Commodore computer was the SX-64 based on?
The SX-64 was a transportable version of the Commodore 64 with a built-in color monitor and disk drive.