A500 keyboard on PC MB

[riccofl]

Been searching around on Aminet and other sites. Having problems with finding material or an adapter.

I would like to use a Commodore Amiga 500 keyboard on my PC with PS2 ports. Also got COM and SERIAL ports.

Desperately need help.

Cheers

[adolescent]

You won't find an off the shelf solution for this.  Micronik used to make an adapter for the A1200 keyboard, but they've been unavailable for years.

I think your best bet would be to contact KGrach at Revanche LLC http://revanchellc.com/.  He makes adapters for PC keyboards, perhaps he can whip something up to go the other way.

[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:

[riccofl]

Just send an e-mail to KGrach at Revanche LLC. Thanks!!!

[riccofl]

An e-mail is on its way to Guido Mersmann. I hope I can get this to work.

Assembly Code, hmmm...okay. On that PC, I am running WinUAE, so I guess I need to make something for Windows XP.

The BIOS would not even recognize the Amiga keyboard, right?  

[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