Re: C64 Tower - keyboard ======================== Subject: Re: C64 Tower - keyboard From: Paul Albers Date: 1998/03/10 Rick Youngman wrote: > The hardware is not compatiable... The C=64 keyboard is a mechanical > switching matrix. (Email me if you want a program I wrote mapping the > switching matrix of the keyboard) Yes please, I was going to map it out myself and would be very happy to not have to do that. > To make a remote keyboard for the C=64 is really quite easy, the circut > board is totaly self contained and terminates a 24 pin header strip (or > 26 pin...cant remeber 4 sure) on the mother board. Using a "standard" > PC paralel cabel and connectors it is a piece of cake. For the > keyboard housing a simple piece of plexiglass overlaid (glued) on an ol > gutted AT keyboard can be used, that has been cut-out to the proper > shape to hold the C=64 board (use the top half of the C=64 housing for a > patern) If I was going to do that, I'de rather just use a top half of a C64 case with the keyboard as the extention (just make a new bottom for it). But what I *really* want is 4 cursor keys and 8 function keys (ie no shifting) with the remote keyboard. (any way to hack that into a C64 keyboard?) > and bTw... the "keyboard-out" jack I have installed in my C=64 tower has > also been used to "hard-wire" directly to a defunked combo organ > keyboard which also used mechanical switches on its keyboard. The Can't an old PC keyboard also be hardwired like that? I realize it would take some time an effort, but I think it would be worth it if there was no better way. Paul ------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Albers (pa@gis.shl.com) "First things first, but not necessarily in that order." -- Dr. Who ---