Original Amiga Keyboard on towered keyboard?!

[motorollin]

I'm using a cordless PC keyboard with my D-Box towered A1200, and it's just not the same. I want a real A1200 keyboard :-)

If I get one of those Keyrah things and connect an A1200 keyboard to it, can I plug it in to the PC keyboard interface on the back of my D-Box tower? If I do this will the keys map properly?

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moto

[motorollin]

I want to put my old A1200 desktop case on my desk and use its keyboard... so I feel like I'm using a desktop machine instead of a tower :-)

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moto

[motorollin]

@orange
I don't want a dirty great long ribbon cable trailing across the desk in in to the back of my tower :-) I thought the Keyrah would let me convert it to a USB keyboard with a nice thin cable, then plug in to the back of the tower.

@amigakit
My current keyboard has a wireless receiver which is USB. I just used a USB->PS2 converter and it works in the D-Box's keyboard interface.

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moto

[motorollin]

Doobrey wrote:
But those adapters only work with mice/keyboards that were designed to work in either USB or PS2 mode.

I see, I guess that's a no go then.

Doobrey wrote:
 1. Put the guts of an A4000 keyboard inside an A1200 case

Will it physically fit? And are the layouts the same?

Doobrey wrote:
 2. Salvage a keyboard controller from an A500 and connect it to the A1200's keyboard ribbon and add a cable from the DBox's interface to the A500 interface. There's a hack on aminet that describes it in more details.

Is the A500 keyboard cable not a ribbon then? I haven't seen the inside of an A500 for years!

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moto