Im doing the same . I havent sourced a case yet , shipping from that place in Texas to the UK was ludicrous. But i have some key caps on order. Nice that you have managed to a NOS keyboard though!
Im thinking of doing a Cherry MX mod to mine as the keyboard on my is a bit patchy at the best of times. Instead of a RPi im using a C64 Reloaded board - which works quite nicely.
Nick
It's a shame the shipping excessive. The case is really nice at a very reasonable price. It even included some custom stickers.
I like C= 16 KB has distinct cursor keys unlike the C= 64 KB.
I forgot about the manual shift-lock. I like that too...
Pretty cool idea.
I like the idea of enclosing the Pi in a C64 case and attaching a SID to it.
I might have to replicate this, even if I don't use it for Commodore emulation.
It would make a nice system.
I'll probably run RetroPie image and use it more for the emulation of other things as well as Kodi player.
So what happens when the SID is connected to the Pi?
hopefully you'll have a working "/dev/sid" and this result:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plyVYZ6XPwQThis is probably the biggest challenge for the entire project because the SidPI is based around the 6581 SID and I have the newer 8580 chip...
The main differences of the two SID chip types:
SID 6581 needs 12 V DC voltage and two 470 pF filter capacitors
SID 8580 needs 9 V DC voltage and two 2,2 nF filter capacitors
(
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/jtpartanen/commodorestuff/6581to8580/index.html)
I'll probably have to have ask someone that knows more about SID chips help me out...
form example this confuses me, the schematic here -->
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/papawattu/SidPi/master/schematic/sidpi.png shows the filters already as 2,2 nF which I would think would be correct for the 8580 but the documentation suggests he is using a 6581.
