[ale] USB keyboard with retro layouts?

[Raj Wurttemberg]

I'm mostly a Commodore user so limited experience with the other
emulators.  I usually use the VICE (or WinVICE) emulator for Commodore
shenanigans. VICE remaps the C64 keyboard to my PC keyboard so I don't have
to push the key and figure out what Commodore character is there. Granted I
don't get to see the cool graphical characters on the front-side of the
key. Keycaps today are not very tall so putting a sticker on the key is not
an option. I have considered building a Pi-C64 and using the Keyrah V2 (
https://icomp.de/shop-icomp/en/produkt-details/product/keyrah-v2.html)
interface so that I could use a real C64 keyboard.  I haven't done it yet
because I have working C64's and spare parts. :)

/Raj W.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 4:23 PM Beddingfield, Allen via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

> In playing around with emulators for various older systems (C64, VIC-20,
> Apple IIe, etc...) on my openSUSE system, I had a thought:
> Wouldn't it be nice to have a modern USB keyboard with the layout of the
> keyboard on one of these systems - for using with an emulator.  I've done a
> good bit of searching, and all I have found is stickers to label a normal
> keyboard.  I've also found a few people trying to take actual keyboards
> from those systems and connect them by USB.
> Any of you know of anyone making something like this?  With all the retro
> stuff available these days, I was certain there would be something like
> this available, but I've not seen one.
> Thanks.
> Allen B.
>
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