Amiga 500 keyboard interface with arduino leonardo pro micro. Amiga cdtv 500 keyboard usb adapter share project pcbway. One of them works fine, but when i insert the other one, the amiga shows grey screen and the red power led blinks 6 times. Not every possible ascii character, particularly the nonprinting ones, can be sent with the keyboard library. Commodore amiga a500 technical reference manual 283 pages. Commodore amiga 500 mechanical keyboard upgrade geeky. Today, a new one, a commodore amiga 500 usb keyboard. If you are an amiga fan, its worth buying amiga forever, as it contains a wealth of demos, games, and preconfigured systems and has everything you could want to emulate a complete system.
May 12, 2015 the ingenuity of the amiga userbase is amazing. In short, the amiga 500 expansion port was an exact electrical equivalent of the expansion port of amiga, and very similar to the zorro ii card slots of the amiga 2000 and above. All you need is the amiga keyboard and the arduino without any. New compatible keycaps for amiga computers by philippe lang. The fsuae emulator can scan for your install cd of amiga forever and automatically copy the kickstart roms to their own configuration folder. Buy amiga 500 keyboard and get the best deals at the lowest prices on ebay.
Fixme write about custom keyboard joystick emulation devices. Amiga 500 keyboard usb adapter this board allows to connect an amiga keyboard as an usb hid keyboard for example on a pc. Find great deals on ebay for amiga keyboard and amiga 500 keyboard. The project creator included driver and instruction for building it using the arduino hardware he used in this post. Amiga keyboard connect to pc usb with arduino leanordo. It uses a pro micro arduino clone for the usb communication, and connects it to the amiga specific keyboard connectors. Contains amiga 500 keyboard emulator through an arduino leonardo board. Many years ago i got an amiga 500 with missing keyboard. View and download commodore amiga a500 technical reference manual online. Make your amiga keyboard anew and replace your old yellowed keys with a full set of new keycaps.
Its based on an avr atmega168 microcontroller, which reads the ps2 keyboard and translates. No, you can and, more importantly, it is fully supported to run workbench 1. With arduino forum member olafs details you can program the arduino board as a usb human interface device and thus use it to interface the keyboard with any contemporary system that uses a. I have already bought the casing, a 1200 keyboard and keyrah unit to convert the keyboard to usb. Layers of dust if only and ageing components create deadly mix with effects ranging. Amiga 500 keyboard usb adapter share project pcbway.
In earlier versions of the arduino ide, one could simply add stuff to hid. Arduino forum community exhibition gallery amiga 500 2000 keyboard interface. Amiga 27c160 kickswitch i designed a small circuit board for myself, so that i can switch 4 kickroms in a 27c160 rom and giv amiga tastatur adapter v1 to connect an a4000 keyboard with an amiga 500 motherboard or as a addon to my a500 keyboard interf. It makes it possible to connect and use an external ps2 keyboard with the amiga. Chances are that hardware you got havent been stored in optimal conditions. Philippe lang is raising funds for new compatible keycaps for amiga computers on kickstarter. Repo that contains amiga 500 keyboard emulator through an arduino leonardo board eddygarcasamiga500keyemulator. Amiga 500 keyboard schematic mitsumi english amiga board.
Amiga 2000 3000 500 keyboard usb adapter share project. The amiga 500 can supply power to devices plugged into the 86pin expansion port through the port on the left side of the computer. I am creating a black amiga 500 casing for my retro pi unit. As far as i can see, grey screen should mean that hardware was testet ok, but i cannot find anything about what blinking power led means. I have some vinyl dye paint for the plastic, but i also have a quandary regarding the keys.
Dec 12, 2015 today, a new one, a commodore amiga 500 usb keyboard. Since then original keyboards became so expensive, that custom mechanical keyboards can be built for the price of an original. Commdore amiga 2000 keyboard with formed cover for 2500, 3000 t, 4000 t commdore amiga 2000 keyboard with formed cover for 2500, 3000 t, 4000 t commdore amiga 2000 keyboard with formed cover for 2500, 3000 t, 4000 t the amiga is a line of personal computers that were produced by commodore between 1985 and 1996. One full set of amiga key caps inspired by the amiga cd32 keyboard and joypad black and charcoal keys with four extra colour keys. I am trying to use an arduino leonardo for keyboard emulation since that is one of its advertised features. More usercreated hardware projects mambos amiga blog.
While the functions for this are part of the core arduino libraries and. I suspect the data rate might be higher than an arduino can comfortably handle. Do you have some amiga disks and do you know if they still hold any data. Amiga 5002000 keyboard interface page 7 arduino forum. Download the amiga rom files from a location indicated above copy them to the roms folder, in this example youll end up with d. So far the best option ive found is to buy a wasd custom keyboard with the keys appropriately painted white. I would like to use an amiga looking keyboard on my pc. Arduino based adapter to connect an amiga or 500 keyboard as an usb hid keyboard. Here are a few new hardware projects ive spotted online recently. Mechanical replacement keyboard for amiga 500 and 1200. Amiga inspired key caps for mechanical keyboards by.
Feb, 2017 in this video, in response to a viewers request, we use an arduino to emulate key presses on the host computers keyboard. Ive also considered adding support for amiga keyboards as well, to make it perfect for emulation. The floppy isnt yet interfaced, but i think that the result could be quite good. View and download commodore amiga 500 user manual online. Use latest arduino ide version to verify and compile this. These emulated amiga software programs consist of demos and music disks from 20 years of community coding. This document explains how to use keyboard shortcuts in fsuae, how fsuae and system keyboard shortcuts can interfere, and how the emulated amiga keyboard works. Amiga 5002000 keyboard interface page 3 arduino forum.
If you want to support this blog, you can donate via patreon or paypal, or buy something from my store. The keyboard functions enable 32u4 or samd micro based boards to send keystrokes to an attached computer through their micros native usb port. Mar 18, 20 toolkitman describes himself as a 36yearold italian hardware technician with a passion for retro computers, modern computers, and consoles. The native interface connection on the prototyped board uses the amiga 500 keyboard pinout, so that is also an option. The magnetic data is likely to be unreadable after 20 years. It was enough to no longer be using a good chunk of my original machines innards, the lights i could not handle.
May 19, 20 it booted up, with a few transient read errors on the disk, but the keyboard didnt respond. I also repair the keyboard, which had some keys that were not working and do some maintenance on the floppy drive, which didnt work properly either. Great savings free delivery collection on many items. Getting the arduino to talk usb makes use of the vusb library which has been ported to arduino. The arduino libraries take care of implementing the full usb hid stacks. This board allows to connect an amiga keyboard as an usb hid keyboard for example on a pc, raspberry pi, or vampire v4sa. A good place to start with the emulated amiga collection, this set of curated amiga programs represent many different. A thank you to the scripted amiga emulator project, as well as db48x and bai, for all the hard work with this experiment.
The worlds largest amiga store, distributor, manufacturer and service agent serving our global customer base. I like to make my projects the least destructive way so i use a lot of tape, jumpers and breadboards. These libraries can be used to turn a 32u4 based board or an arduino due or zero board into a keyboard or mouse. Apr 03, 2018 he has used a tynemouth software usb adaptor for the amiga keyboard, and a set of nicely designed 3d printed backplates to bring the extended raspberry pi ports to the back of the case. There are multiple reports of people rescuing a500 computers from skips and garages. You can buy one from cloanto and they are bundled with amiga forever. These membranes also suit the later c a4000 and escom a4000t keyboards with springs under each key.
All you need is the amiga keyboard and the arduino without any shield or additional hardware. C0 vs 08 2 blob 7 ref type description page cnx ra56h mem. The zorro ii card slots of the amiga 2000 and greater models had 14 extra pins compared to the amiga 500 expansion port. Feb 11, 2018 i got this keyboard with an amiga system i bought. Nov 26, 20 58 thoughts on raspberry pi emulates an amiga 500 floppy drive bartformosus says. This was rather common back at that time, because workbench 1. It was enough to no longer be using a good chunk of my original machines innards, the lights i.
I also plan on adding a switch to toggle modes, and adding support for using a joystick to move the cursor, and also use the joystick to send keyboard wasd or arrow keys. Mainboard 3 p1 edge86 expansion connector 7 cn sil8 keyboard connector 6. If nothing happens, download github desktop and try again. After this, the amiga reboots and the same thing repeats itself. I prefer not to use my old original a2000 keyboard with an adapter, partly because it lacks many keys present on modern 105key keyboards, and partly because its not localized. Since june 2004, we have been serving the amiga community, manufacturing new amiga hardware, developing amiga software and sponsoring community events. This project is a ps2 keyboard controller for the amiga 500. At the moment it is not possible to use these libraries with other arduino boards like the popular arduino uno. The amiga 500 is from that style of 80s home computers where the keyboard was integral with the case, and connected directly to the motherboard. Commodore 64 keyboard gets the usb treatment thanks to arduino. Keyboard reprogram this example uses the keyboard library to open a new arduino software ide sketch window, send keyboard commands that type in the blink example, and reprograms the board. I put together a quick harness that will connect the commodore 64 keyboard to the arduino, aligning the rows and columns to the right pins. If that doesnt help ram has to be swapped with new chips.
Amiga kit amiga store the worlds largest amiga store. They can go warm while amiga is powered on but look for a chip that is really hot. Amiga 500 keyboard usb adapter this board allows to connect an amiga keyboard as an usb hid keyboard for example on a pc, raspberr. Purpose of this adapter is to use the original a500 keyboard on raspberry pi devices or the upcoming apollo vampire v4 standalone. With a pc, a broken keyboard is a trivial problem you just replace it. For further information you can visit the projects page. Moving on, i used it as part of my gcses and alevel projects thanks to highspeed pascal, which was compatible with turbo pascal on the pc.
With arduino forum member olafs details you can program the arduino board as a usb human interface device and thus use it to interface the keyboard with any contemporary system that uses a usb keyboard. I have been playing with the leonardo and wrote a very simple sketch based off the blink. Amiga 5002000 keyboard interface page 6 arduino forum. The a1200 version also is compatible with the micronik a1200 keyboards. Every month i purchased the popular amiga format magazine. How did the amiga 500 leftside expansion port work. I entered the amiga format write a game in amos competition when amos professional was put on a coverdisk later, and was one of the 12 i think winners with in the pipe line. A new kickstarter campaign has launched this week allowing users of the retro commodore amiga 500 range of home personal computers to upgrade to a new mechanical keyboard, allowing for faster. Usb conversion kit for amiga 500 keyboard from tynemouth. Raspberry pi emulates an amiga 500 floppy drive hackaday. Which is where this amiga ps2 mouse port comes from.
And also in a version with a usb connector on the rear in case you want to use the amiga 500 as a massive usb keyboard. For an amiga keyboard interface, the necessary hardware would be an 4p4c rj22 jack telephone handset, 5pin din jack, or 6pin minidin jack for various amiga keyboard models. Amiga 500 usb keyboard with raspberry pi 3 tynemouth. Contribute to majenkolibrariesa500kb development by creating an account on github. I have a problem i would like to transform the a500 usb keyboard with arduino leonardo pro micro, but i do not.
The amiga 500 represents a return to commodores roots by being sold in the same mass retail outlets as the commodore 64 to which it was a spiritual successor as opposed to the computerstoreonly amiga, as well as being another computer whose keyboard is included in the same case. If you have a spare commodore amiga 500 computer or a or 2000series keyboard and an arduino youre in luck. It certainly isnt the cheapest option, but its is by far the cleanest picture ive seen. Arduino based adapter to connect an amiga 2000, 3000 or 500 keyboard as an usb hid keyboard. Hello everyone, i wanted to ask you can connect an amiga 500 keyboard to arduino leonardo pro micro. Rj22 and the phone line is rj11 capable of 6 conductors but uses 4 or rj12 capable of 6 conductors uses 6 a20003000 is a 5pin din female. The functions to emulate a basic keyboard are already implemented in the core libraries shipped with the arduino ide. To create a simple, cheap and open source way to recover and rewrite data from and to amiga dd floppy disks from within windows 10. Usb harddrive for any amiga using the printer port. I have an indivision ecs in both my amiga 500 rev6, and amiga 2000 rev 6.
Arduino based adapter to connect an amiga cdtv or 500 keyboard as an usb hid keyboard. I found a few discussions in a few groups suggesting it. The a500 version also suit the later c a4000 and escom a4000t keyboards with springs under each key. Project so far amiga arduino floppy disk reader and writer. Amiga inspired key caps for mechanical keyboards by loriano. Arduino amiga floppy disk reader v1 arduino project hub. Forgive me if it sounds absolutely obvious to everyone else, but i prefer to link to the question i asked. This is a later version of the a500 with the internal ram increased to 1mb, and an integrated real time clock.
After running this sketch and connecting pin 2 to ground using the pushbutton, the board will have a new program, blink. However, in order to run any amiga software, you need a kickstart rom that is ed and only available under license. I havent tried it but it might be possible to use an arduino with a usb host shield and. Most of the amigas in the wild spend recent years hidden in the attics and cupboards. If it is about a501 there are usually two jumpers that can cause issues jp2 and jp7a. Keyboard membranes for amiga 500, 600, and 1200 in stock.
Unfortunately, amiga style cherry mx keycaps are unavailable, so i used dsa profile blank keycaps. For me, it was absolutely worth it for the aesthetic appeal alone, but not. He has used a tynemouth software usb adaptor for the amiga keyboard, and a set of nicely designed 3d printed backplates to bring the extended raspberry pi ports to the back of the case. I havent tried it but it might be possible to use an arduino with a usb host shield and bitbang the ps2 interface for a lot less. It is in need of repair with many stuck and missing keys.
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