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is mini itx conversions a crime?

Before I checked out the link I thought it was going to be a 1530 as a hard drive enclosure for a *real* C64 using something like IDE64...

Cheers,

80sFreak

P.S. This has probably been said many times before - It would have been a truely cool hack/mod if you were able to use the keyboard worked.
 
Before I checked out the link I thought it was going to be a 1530 as a hard drive enclosure for a *real* C64 using something like IDE64...

Cheers,

80sFreak

P.S. This has probably been said many times before - It would have been a truely cool hack/mod if the keyboard was functional.
 
I believe on some of the conversations, the keyboard is functional. There are a lot of microcontrollers and different projects around to convert a custom keyboard to a PS2 or USB standard. For the Commodore range, there are both DIYs and some commercial solutions, most recently Keyrah from Individual Computers.

Ruud Baltissen posted an idea to connect an IDE hard disk to the controller board of a 1541, but it is only on the idea stage (i.e. not yet a functional DIY): http://www.baltissen.org/htm/1541ide.htm
 
I've seen some people use a C128 keyboard with a PC. As for C64 it probably has too few keys for any serious use. Besides, there are much more comfortable keyboards out there ;)

Cheers
SainT
 
You would have to sacrifice a bit, like Windows and Menu keys. One CTRL should be enough, and do you really need both Backspace, DEL and INS? 12 function keys as well as a numeric keyboard? Perhaps one or two keys could be used as mode toggles for an alternative layout.

Think Space Cadet keyboard, although seven "shift" keys may be a bit excessive:

http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/SpaceCadet.html
http://www.antionline.com/jargon/space-cadetkeyboard.php

(No, I've never seen one in real life, but it might be fun to try to use it
 
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