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8bitdo made a Commodore 64 variant of their keyboard (shop.8bitdo.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The 8bitdo keyboard has been pretty well-received as a ~$100 wireless keyboard with ABS keycaps. I love the way this C64 color scheme looks.

I have an 8bitdo arcade stick, which looks like it uses the same knob as this keyboard for selecting the wireless mode. I love the way it feels every time I turn it on.

Unfortunately, the keyboard doesn't use QMK -- it uses their own mapping software, which is Windows only. This makes it a non-starter for me, since I rarely use a Windows computer these days. But I just might have to copy that color scheme for my next build.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Geez, no authenticity from these guys. Hard pass!

Although, if it did support QMK, I bet you could recreate PETSCII. I'm pretty sure QMK lets you bind a key to any unicode character, and I'm assuming all of the PETSCII characters have a unicode equivalent.