The important question is what's the difference between an A500 keyboard and an A1200 keyboard? How are they incompatible? Is the A1200 keyboard somehow 32 bit while the A500 keyboard is only 16 bit? Is the connector different and can't be adapted? How would it be better to try and fit a PC keyboard to an A500?
As you ponder that, I'll be writing a short Japanese quiz in AmigaBASIC on my A1200. The words and phrases will be taken from a book I can't memorise, so this should help me, although it can't pronounce Japanese. Some of you may be thinking "I haven't used AmigaBASIC for YEARS!", but in some cases that may also be the last time you programmed anything.
Being as though you mentioned AmigaBasic, incase you aren't already aware it doesn't play well on typical Amiga setups;
http://www.amigacoding.com/index.php/AmigaBASIC_bugs
