A500 keyboard on PC MB

[Castellen]

Never seen that done before, most people want to do it the other way around :-)

It's only a matter of serial protocol conversion, you'd probably just need to write a bit of PIC assembly code to do it.

Contact Guido Mersmann geitNOSPAM@gmx.de (remove NOSPAM)
He's very clever and has done a lot with Amiga keyboard protocols, might have done something like that already.

If you buy him some beers, he might even write the software for you??   :pint:

[Castellen]

The assembly code would run on a PIC microcontroller (a tiny dedicated computer), which would be placed in between the serial data/clock lines of the A500 keyboard and the PC keyboard port.

It's job would be to translate the Amiga keyboard protocol into something the PC can directly understand without any modification to the software on the PC.
Without this translation the keyboard would not work at all.

Unless of course you particularly feel like reverse engineering the PCs BIOS and windows XP :-P