Re: C64 Tower - keyboard
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Subject:      Re: C64 Tower - keyboard
From:         Paul Albers <pa@gis.shl.com>
Date:         1998/03/09


Robert Norris wrote:
> 
> Good morning.
> 
> I was thinking to myself the other day (a scary thing at the best of
> times :), I wonder if we could bring the C64 into the 90's, so to speak,
> by fitting the board and other associated gubbins in a PC tower case.
> 
> Now don't get me wrong, I love the 64, but the old brown case gives me
> the shits because, well, it's just not nice. I was thinking that the
> board, drives, power supply, and my ARVI could be mounted inside a PC
> case.
> 
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this? It would be a fairly major job,
> and something would have to be worked out with the keyboard, but with a
> bit of time and effort something could probably be worked out.
> 
> I intend to have a damn good go at it (using spare parts, not my good 64
> :) sometime in the next couple of months, but I'd like to hear from
> anyone who's tried something similar.

I've been tossing this idea around for some time.  My big
question is about attaching a PC style keyboard to the C64.
I've seen plans that just attach the keyboard to the cassette
port and uses software to translate the key presses, but that's
not what I want.  I want full harware emulation, no software
wedges or anything like that.  

Is there some way to make an independent 'black box' that
would connect a PC keyboard to the 64 this way?  In theory
it dosn't strike me as being a big deal, PC scancode in,
C64 'scancode' out.

Paul
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Paul Albers (pa@gis.shl.com)
     "First things first, but not necessarily in that order." 
                                -- Dr. Who

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