Looking to possibly put my "new" C64C late revision board into a tower. The case is scratched up so I don't feel too badly about that. I think an IBM Model M keyboard (appropriately re-badged) would be ideal. Can the C=Key be easily re-mapped? I prefer symbolic to positional mapping, a la VICE, when using a PC-style keyboard.
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It is not going to be as easy as that I'm afraid. An IBM keyboard has its own logic and is connected to the PC with a serial interface. The keyboard in the C64 is scanned by the CPU itself. Therefore the C64 keyboard has about 20 connection lines and an IBM keyboard only three. To use an IBM keyboard there will be some extra electronic logic required.

Yeah, that's what C=Key does.

http://www.go4retro.com/products/ckey/

I'm just wondering how well it works.
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Ah oke, I was not aware of the C=Key product. I thought you meant the actual C= key on the C64 keyboard . My bad.
On the website it says that the source code is licensed under GPLv2. So it is possible to make your own adjustments. However you will need to be able to program in C, have a compiler for the ATMEGA162 and an AVR programmer (to write the compiled program from the PC to the board). The shops even says: "We've hesitated to offer these kits in the store because the firmware has not been extensively tested and cannot be easily upgraded by the end user"
However they say that an new PCB with USB support is in development.

Hmm...I've been looking at getting my son an Arduino clone kit (ATMega based). Maybe that would be a good platform for this kind of thing since they are easy to reprogram.

I have no desire at this point to go C64 keyboard-to-PC, just the other way around, so that might simplify (?) things. There are hacks to do this through the cassette port with a .PRG loaded, but I'd rather have a transparent hardware solution.
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