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joker
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Joined: 06/02/2024
Location: Germany
Posts: 31
Posted: 07:27pm 06 May 2024
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Hello,
Long time I struggled to find a proper housing for my CMM2 so I started to think about something extraordinary. Anyway, I need a proper keyboard because the CMM2 is quite picky with keyboards.

Then I stumbled over "The C64" and thought by myself: This would be a propper retro housing for my CMM2. So I did it:

The green LED indicated that the CMM2 is active. When the drive is accessed, the LED flickers in red.
If the LED shows permanent red, the build in C64-Emulator is active.

Both computers share the keyboard, which in fact is a USB keyboard. Unfortunately the keyboard layout deviates in many ways from modern keyboards, so I had to patch the firmware to get it right.

It's like a time travel 30 years back in time.    

A look under the bonnet (shy persons should close their eyes now   ):


Cheers
 Matthias
 
Plasmamac

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Joined: 31/01/2019
Location: Germany
Posts: 596
Posted: 06:42pm 07 May 2024
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   Same Idea here but i bought a Atari St because dislike the c64 Keyboard 🤪
Plasma
 
joker
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Location: Germany
Posts: 31
Posted: 05:44pm 08 May 2024
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  Plasmamac said      Same Idea here but i bought a Atari St because dislike the c64 Keyboard 🤪




C64, Atari, that doesn't matter.
I hope you had as much fun building your fancy housing than I had building mine.  

Cheers Matthias

Brothers in retro housings  
 
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