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Adding PS/2 keyboard to your Commodore 64 DTV

November 11th, 2008

Hacking the Commodore 64 DTV isn’t a new thing and neither is adding a PS/2 keyboard to it.
Never the less, that’s exactly what I have been doing for the past few days.
A job that was scheduled only to take a few hours.

As you might have guess it hasn’t been without problems.

To be short, very short:
The PS/2 keyboard doesn’t work if you were booting to Basic via the Easter egg. It only works if you hold LEFT CTRL down upon turning on your device. This will btw. boot directly into Basic.

Then it struck me… This is the perfect chicken and the egg problem.
The keyboard will only work if you hold down a key…..
A bit like “Keyboard error. Press F1 to continue”

Think about that.

Anyway, I hope this helps you if you areoing to add a PS/2 keyboard to your Commodore 64 DTV.

Links:
http://picobay.com/dtv_wiki/index.php?title=DTVTrans copy files to and from the C64 DTV

http://www.kahlin.net/daniel/dtv/ Transfer Cable

http://www.geocities.com/dtvhacking/ everything about the internal

Benjamin Sølberg Commodore 64, Retro

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