FPGA Replay Board

[Cignale]

Not unless the keyboard/mouse speaks PS2 protocol over USB - the converter is just a passive adapter. The new Amiga core uses a tiny microcontroller soft core to do the ps2 interface and I am looking at making it speak USB - so then a ps2/usb adapter would work with a true USB device. Something for the future.

Oh, the rear IO panels have arrived :
www.fpgaarcade.com



/MikeJ

Ciao Mikej,
I have a CDTV with keyboard, trackball and mouse. Will  be  there  in the future a way to plug these in the ps2 ports and use a  modified microcontroller soft-core ?

Thanks.

[Cignale]

@ Mikej and freqmax:

Thanks, I'm sorry if I've caused trouble ! I was and I am  an almost complete noobie in Amiga World (Im basically a Sinclairist); anyway I think that  the implementation at least of original pluggable keyboards  of  various Amiga models (4000, CDTV, etc) could be quite....interesting.

Thanks again.

[Cignale]

Well,
obviously ps2 standard keyboard and mouse are the real choice for a FPGA based machine. And now I understand the difficulties about using other key/mouse standards.
Anyway, just for the sake of discussion,  I wonder if could be possible to implement, just  at the power on of the board  a "timed choice" : "You have 5 seconds to press any key on a original Amiga keyboard, otherwise the system will be started in  ps2 keyboard mode". Is this feasible or the different pin coding of different keyboard standards can fry something if I plug an Amiga keyboard on Fpga Arcade with ps2 core preinstalled or viceversa ?
 
@ShapeShifter - thanks for the welcome

[Cignale]

These are good news, Mikej .

Thanks.