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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

Free MP3 files and lots of them can be found right here!

November 22nd, 2006

If you are in the need of free mp3 files they can be found many places on the net.

If you have a passion for Commodore 64 music then you really NEED to take a look at this site:
http://remix.kwed.org


You can find tons of original Commodore 64 SID tunes, but more importantly you can find your favourite game or demo music in modern remixed versions. This is what http://remix.kwed.org is all about.
 

Here is a little collection of high quality remixes:

 

Have fun !!

Benjamin Sølberg Commodore 64, Retro

Legacy Commodore 64 SID Tunes

November 10th, 2006

If you, like me, was or still is a big fan of the Commodore 64, then you might still remember alot of the music tunes while you were playing on the machine. If you wanna listen to them again there are ALOT of websites out there that only deals with this.

Here are som redirects:

The greatest collection on the planet earth for sure!

http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

Some chip tunes, some of them even uses samples (To be honst I like the old style better):

http://www.prg.dtu.dk/~theis/stil/html/text/VARIOUSSZSanden_Peter.htm

SidPlay2 - The music player that emulates the Commodore 64 music hardware (and more)

http://sidplay2.sourceforge.net/ 

Enjoy!

Benjamin Sølberg Commodore 64, Retro